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单词 absent-minded
释义
absent-minded
adjective
uk
/ˌæb.səntˈmaɪn.dɪd/us
/ˌæb.səntˈmaɪn.dɪd/
Someone who is absent-minded oftenforgetsthings or does notpayattentionto what ishappeningnear them because they arethinkingabout other things.
心不在焉的；健忘的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not paying attention
  • absent
  • absent-mindedly
  • absent-mindedness
  • absently
  • abstracted
  • anyhow
  • dreamy
  • drop/loweryourguardidiom
  • faraway
  • glazed
  • go back to sleep!idiom
  • laxly
  • like a bull in a china shopidiom
  • merrily
  • misfocus
  • moment
  • sideline
  • unmindful
  • unwary
  • zone out
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Forgetting and forgetfulness

Related words

absent-mindedly
absent-mindedness
(Definition ofabsent-mindedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

absent-minded| American Dictionary

absent-minded
adjective
us
/ˈæb·sənt ˈmɑɪn·dɪd/
likelytoforgetthings,esp. because you do not giveyourattentionto what ishappening
(Definition ofabsent-mindedfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Even the mostabsent-mindedof us usually retain knowledge of which are our left and right hands.
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A third group comprises the well-meaning butabsent-minded.
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We need only to take a little trouble to stop theabsent-mindeddestruction of our national heritage.
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The law already provides the basis for distinguished between the shoplifter and theabsent-mindedshopper, in so far as this is humanly possible.
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If those who are caught allegedly thieving from shops can prove that they were simplyabsent-mindedor confused, the case will fall.
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We cannot dismiss illegal child employment as simply a paperwork error byabsent-mindedemployers.
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That is a specific, and probably ratherabsent-mindedexample, of age-based rationing.
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The auditors were, to say the least,absent-minded.
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It is generally accepted that self-service shopping has increased the opportunities for shoplifters as well as offering new hazards for theabsent-minded.
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You would make a charming back bencher, a pillar of your party, and you would bask in theabsent-mindedsmile of your leader.
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This would deter some people from shoplifting and might preventabsent-mindedpeople from putting goods into their own shopping baskets.
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I am seeking to find a method which will not only reduce the number of mistakes by theabsent-minded, but simultaneously deter the real thief.
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He was one of these people who was readily identified as an infant prodigy, and was treated as such; and his defensive mechanism was to become appallinglyabsent-minded.
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Will he further agree that shoplifting is an example of an offence in which the motives and circumstances can vary, from the persistent professional offender to the merelyabsent-minded?
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All of us know of some very hard and grievous cases, especially with old people who areabsent-minded, where the case ought never to have been brought.
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