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recklessness

/rek-lis/US // ˈrɛk lɪs //UK // (ˈrɛklɪs) //

鲁莽行事,鲁莽行为,鲁莽,罔顾后果

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless: to be reckless of danger.
    • : characterized by or proceeding from such carelessness: reckless extravagance.

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Examples

  • Eifert also points to a sub-culture of traders who have gained infamy for engaging in seemingly reckless options trading, and then sharing their gains—or in many cases huge losses—on social media platforms.

  • Epidemiologists think that is reckless and could both cause massive unnecessary suffering and overcrowd our health care facilities.

  • “Without that data, it seems reckless to proceed to approving the vaccine,” says virologist Onyema Ogbuagu of the Yale School of Medicine.

  • There’s a cliche that tech industry founders are bent on reckless growth all because their aggressive entrepreneurial tendencies weren’t tempered by any college coursework in the humanities.

  • Discontent with life led to complete recklessness on the battlefield.

  • Crime,  fiscal recklessness, and homelessness are stirring like discordant strains of music.

  • Strategic recklessness aside, the chief problem with the plan was that it needed a weak, feckless opposition.

  • What the gun owner claims as self-defense often looks, on closer examination, more like trigger-happy recklessness.

  • As the first African-American to rise up the ladder so high, he has rarely risked recklessness as an adult.

  • They propagated their species with perfect recklessness, and it was therefore useless to expect any increased civilisation.

  • Knowing the cutthroat's recklessness and his almost insane thirst for blood, he feared that this might happen.

  • His face became transformed, alive with a passion uncanny in its recklessness and purpose.

  • It would be lucky if more people had a supply of desirable recklessness, and things would have gone on much better.

  • The conduct of many of the men, French and English, seemed characterized by a recklessness verging on insanity.