improvidence

1 If, as the President avers, we have been guilty of improvident legislation, what act of Congress is the most striking instance of that improvidence?

2 The Indians, with their ordinary recklessness and improvidence, had neglected even to place a guard within the palisades.

3 A fine plan, indeed! to make the poor pay for my improvidence and disorder!

4 Dissension and improvidence reigned.

你争我夺和挥霍浪费之风盛行。

5 His own constitutional improvidence added to the difficulties thus created.

6 By mutual co-operation and a common policy, the proprietors might have redeemed the grants of the imperial government from the charge of improvidence.

7 Land is much subdivided, and though the condition of the labouring class is not as a rule unembarrassed, that result is due more to their own improvidence and indolence than to anything else.

8 We were to be the victims of the usual improvidence exhibited by governments not accustomed to warlike operations.

9 They succeeded in relieving him and those who, in a state of real freedom, would have been dependent on him, from many of the penalties imposed by nature on idleness, improvidence, and misconduct.

10 The surging passions of the capital, bred and fed by vice and improvidence, are horrible to him.

11 According to his creed, there was no folly, no fault, no idleness, no improvidence in the poor.

12 His gifts are too costly for such cheap improvidence.

13 Good little Cassie Morgan feels never a moment's doubt as she piles her heaps—so much sorrow, so many petticoats: so much hopeless improvidence, so many pounds of tea and a coal-ticket.

14 Some become poor through misfortune, some through improvidence, some through criminal indulgence, these through stanch adherence to duty.

15 “It is marked on the face, stamped on the skin, and evinced by the intellectual inferiority and natural improvidence of his race.”

16 From the nature and power of the disorder, a general panic prevailed, aggravated by ignorance and superstition, and followed by improvidence and want.

17 They taught her that there was neither virtue nor vice, but skill or stupidity, calculation or improvidence, decency or unseemliness.

18 “They really just don’t save, and all these personal behaviors translate into international policy. Climate is another indicator of improvidence and lack of empathy — they don’t care really care about the environment, just about themselves.”

19 The winter of 1626-27 was very long and severe, the snow lying very deep and long on the ground, and the usual improvidence of the settlers causing provisions to run short.

20 There was, too, an abiding faith in the future, a certain improvidence born of strong manhood and womanhood.

1 不顾将来

improvident

2 目光短浅

improvident blear-eyed

3 挥霍

extravagant wasteful prodigal spendthrift improvident splurge extravagance blow squander splash about piss away splash around

4 缺乏远见

improvident

5 不经济

wasteful uneconomic improvident unthrifty diseconomy