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absent-mindedness

/ab-suhnt-mahyn-did/US // ˈæb səntˈmaɪn dɪd //

心不在焉,失心疯,失神,健忘症

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : so lost in thought that one does not realize what one is doing, what is happening, etc.; preoccupied to the extent of being unaware of one's immediate surroundings.

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Examples

  • Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.

  • But, they added, that body scanners are absent at local airports, which they called “this large loophole.”

  • The world is changing, and men really could use a movement—just not the misogynistic, conspiracy-minded one they have now.

  • But all fair-minded Americans should get behind this push for real equality and protections in the lives of all Americans.

  • We can always use people who are community-minded [like him].

  • They will reach you by the hands of Mr. Mackenzie, a worldly-minded Scotch merchant, but honest as to earthly things.

  • In pneumonia chlorids are constantly very low, and in some cases are absent entirely.

  • You may imagine the effect this missive produced upon the proud, high-minded doctor of divinity.

  • He was an outlaw, hunted and despised, depending for his life on the caprice of a fickle-minded woman.

  • The infectious diseases in which leukocytosis is absent (p. 160) often cause a slight decrease of leukocytes.