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halfhearted

/haf-hahr-tid, hahf-/US // ˈhæfˈhɑr tɪd, ˈhɑf- //

半心半意,半信半疑,半心半意的,半心半意地

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.

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Examples

  • This halfhearted support is how we end up with bags of grey Skittles being released into the wild because “only one rainbow matters during Pride.”

  • “It’s a halfhearted effort at complying with the governor’s demands as soon as possible,” said Suzie Djidjoli, a speech-language pathologist who was a member of a union bargaining team.

  • Obama, the halfhearted visitor, had his face clinched in a frozen smile.

  • The result is a series of halfhearted reforms by old men in camouflage.

  • He gave a halfhearted, widely panned speech on the night he finished a distant third in New Hampshire.

  • The United States will issue a halfhearted rebuke and some useless words about “deploring the deaths” that occurred on the ships.

  • He began to make a somewhat halfhearted effort to explain what had happened.

  • At the mouth of the alley stood Charles, wearing a halfhearted VampMob outfit of black t-shirt and jeans and white face-paint.

  • Since teachers were either poorly paid or were hacienda guests, they offered halfhearted service.

  • Two or three women, far back in the hall, start a halfhearted handclapping.

  • And Antony took enough time from Cleopatra's side to make halfhearted preparations to resist.

  • The others of the "indigenous" school have proved halfhearted and vague.