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shortsighted

/shawrt-sahy-tid/US // ˈʃɔrtˈsaɪ tɪd //

短视,短视的,近视眼,近视

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
    • : lacking in foresight: a shortsighted plan.

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Examples

  • “Given the Speaker’s shortsighted scope that does not examine interrelated forms of political violence in America, I cannot support this legislation,” a statement from his office concluded, in a talking point that McCarthy also raised on Wednesday.

  • The shortsighted practice of stopping all fire, experts say, is no longer an option.

  • He wasn’t the first egg and wasn’t the last to be so shortsighted.

  • I wonder if that is because vendors like Substack and Revue want to promote their subscription model, but if so that is shortsighted.

  • With a business to run and employees’ livelihoods to consider, I would have been shortsighted to simply wait on the sidelines and hope for the best.

  • But the response from prominent Jewish groups and leaders has been shortsighted.

  • By Friday morning in Washington, that assessment looked shortsighted.

  • Others end up being very shortsighted and simply buy all the items they need for dinner and nothing more.

  • That's a pretty shortsighted approach to music, historically speaking.

  • Conservatives attacking Baldwin for his latest fit of (justified) anger are being small-time and shortsighted.

  • The Seneschal peered at him curiously through shortsighted eyes.

  • He was a fair-faced, blue-eyed young man, very shortsighted, with a faint lisp and an effeminate air.

  • The overthrow of Marlborough effected an object quite unlooked for by his eager and shortsighted enemies.

  • It becomes us, shortsighted and fallible as we are, to deal cautiously and tenderly with the memory of the illustrious departed.

  • Although I am rather shortsighted, I foresee great calamities in the future.