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单词 untalented
释义
untalented
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈtæl.ən.tɪd/us
/ʌnˈtæl.ən.t̬ɪd/
not having thenaturalabilityto be good at anything, or at aparticularactivity:
没有天赋的；缺乏才能的；不聪明的
This is thesortofworkan untalentedapprenticemightchurnout.这是一个没有天赋的学徒都可能炮制出来的作品。
Opposite
talented
More examples
  • Therecipeslookachievableforeventhe most untalentedamateurcook.
  • For such anapparentlyuntalented, unacademic andsolitaryboy, hiscareerchoicewaslimited.
  • She wasconsideredrelativelyuntalented by thedivingcoaches.
  • The show madeincrediblyordinary, untalented and not verygood-lookingpeoplesuddenlyveryfamous.
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Inability and awkwardness
(Definition ofuntalentedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofuntalented

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But talented individuals who affirm the difference principle will not be justified in demanding higher wages than theuntalented.
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The first objection focuses on how this kind of scheme allegedly affects the respective income-leisure trade-offs of the talented and theuntalented.
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Nor is it enough for him to show that one talented person would envy someuntalentedpeople under some circumstances in the labour auction.
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Second, theuntalented(who include those in the middle range) would envy the talented, who would have more choices, because of the lower premiums.
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Finally, let theuntalentedincrease his effort such that he also exercises 20 units of effort.
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Then the talented doubles his effort while the effort of theuntalentedremains the same.
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But these special concerns reflect an entirely unwarranted special interest in the outcome for the talented, as against that for theuntalented.
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Accordingly, the envy test will be violated because theuntalentedwill envy the position of the talented.
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The distribution is endowment-sensitive because theuntalentedend up with fewer choices because of their lack of talent; that, in turn, is what would cause them to envy the talented.
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Yet, when you get right down to it, all instances of ordinary discourse, even among the most inept, inarticulate,untalentedpractitioners, are to some degree creative responses to novel situations.
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Suppose that they both initially exercise 10 units of effort, which implies that the pre-tax income of the talented is 100 and the pre-tax income of theuntalentedis 50.
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He therefore has no grounds for preferring lower premiums on the basis that under higher insurance premiums the envy test would fail because the talented would envy theuntalented.
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Trained staff must feel, first, that their services are not being wasted onuntalentedchildren, and secondly, that they are being paid an adequate salary.
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We have in our midst a mimic—a highly inadequate anduntalentedmimic.
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The club had an overweight anduntalentedright back in the team for the sole reason that his father was the club sponsor.
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