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indiscriminately

/in-di-skrim-uh-nit-lee/US // ˌɪn dɪˈskrɪm ə nɪt li //

不分青红皂白地,不分青红皂白,不分青红皂白的,不加选择地

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : without exercising discernment or making appropriate distinctions:Unfortunately, a lot of the bad name attributed to modern poetry is caused by people indiscriminately publishing just anything and calling it “poetry.”
    • : in a haphazard or random way:The troops reacted to the explosion by indiscriminately firing in all directions.

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Examples

  • Discount pricing is not just about throwing offers around indiscriminately.

  • If done indiscriminately, it may someday put you in a position to have the second wedding you have always dreamed of.

  • A spokesperson for the Nasa community said that soldiers “fired indiscriminately” at Nasa civilians and shot Liz in the chest.

  • Doing so is not a neutral gesture, which is why it is not to be done indiscriminately.

  • What’s more, the CJEU said national courts have to disregard evidence gathered through the “general and indiscriminate” retention of traffic and location data.

  • “Personal data of citizens was intercepted indiscriminately,” she said in a fiery speech aimed at a room full of world leaders.

  • But now we know that this is an indiscriminately bipartisan vice.

  • Conventional chemotherapy drugs, by contrast, are highly toxic; they indiscriminately damage the brain and body.

  • He used that training to defy our trust, to indiscriminately and systematically harm the United States.

  • Today, he has become a campaign suicide bomber throwing shrapnel, indiscriminately wounding his own people and creating chaos.

  • The troopers slashed at the men on foot and the sepoys fired indiscriminately at any one on horseback.

  • He seized legs, arms, and hair indiscriminately, and in another moment was on the top of the living mass.

  • Both sexes were indiscriminately admitted, after a nice scrutiny into their qualifications.

  • Nowadays, at twenty-five, tears have become so rare a thing that they are not to be squandered indiscriminately.

  • In England the richest land only is chosen, in France every soil indiscriminately.