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cursory

/kur-suh-ree/US // ˈkɜr sə ri //UK // (ˈkɜːsərɪ) //

粗略的,粗略,粗略地,粗略估计

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial: a cursory glance at a newspaper article.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.casual, hasty

Examples

  • Public health experts said the health department could have taken several measures to begin to address the concerns raised in the air-quality studies, including conducting a cursory examination of health trends.

  • A cursory Google search will bring up several fear-inducing articles that discuss the dangers of full-face snorkels, and they all relate to CO2.

  • In Wu’s book, Apple barely makes an appearance, and in Senator Amy Klobuchar’s new book, Antitrust, which is a ringing call for remaking and enforcing anti-monopolization policy, the discussions of Apple seem more cursory than central to her thesis.

  • At the same time, our cursory understanding of these obscure worlds has expanded tremendously.

  • Again, the argument is basically that a guy dealing with a pandemic was too cursory and uninterested in the theory.

  • Taking to the Internet for a cursory search of this world reveals hundreds of videos of home-based animal breeding systems.

  • After a cursory read-through, Walsh offered him a part in The Big Trail.

  • A cursory inspection of available podcasts was unable to reveal the reason for the difficulty with iTunes.

  • At the time, many in the audience only had a cursory knowledge of comic books.

  • Unless some kind of sky-high musical chairs ensues, anything more than a cursory pre-potty hello could become a little tricky.

  • We had not time enough to walk over the gardens; but, from a cursory view of them, did not much regret our loss.

  • The natural history of these provinces would be an inexhaustible subject: the cursory traveller can only describe generally.

  • Lyons appeared to me, from the cursory information which I could obtain, to be as cheap as any town in France.

  • The most cursory study of history would reveal the falseness of this contention.

  • In order to introduce this story, it will be requisite to take a cursory view of some previous occurrences.