英:['skætəbreɪnd]
美:['skætɚ,brend]
英:['skætəbreɪnd]
美:['skætɚ,brend]
词根:scatterbrain
n.scatterbrain 注意力不集中的人
adjective
having or showing a forgetful, disorganized, or unfocused mind : having the characteristics of a scatterbrain
As Detective Gina Calabrese on Miami Vice, Saundra Santiago is all clearheaded efficiency. But off-camera her co-stars think she's scatterbrained. "They consider me a space cadet," says Santiago, who frequently loses keys, misses flights and gets into cabs without cash.—Tim Allis
The first known use of scatterbrained was in 1747
1 Thanks to GPS systems, one can continue "being a scatterbrained puddinhead."
2 From what I have heard from other faculty, he's really scatterbrained.
我从其他老师那里听说了,他真的是粗心大意。
3 She thought of how his eyes shone with merriment when he made up small jokes, which he did frequently, and how invariably kind he was to his small, scatterbrained sister Cynthia.
4 a scatterbrained child who couldn't seem to pay attention or stop fooling around
5 While horrifying in their ambition, Hasson’s plans, gleaned from email drafts, are scatterbrained and bear the hallmarks of a person still trying to figure things out.
6 We live in an era where we're constantly inundated with scare stories about how kids these days, with their internet and screen addictions, are supposedly turning into scatterbrained zombies in need of constant stimulation.
7 London noise inspired an 1856 editorial in the Times bemoaning the “noisy, dizzy, scatterbrained atmosphere”.
8 A tall, scatterbrained geek who has a hard time shutting up.
9 As her frustration mounted and her school progress stalled, Kristine indulged in a series of minor rebellions — ignoring assignments, disrupting class, and affecting a scatterbrained personality in a bid for popularity.
10 The comic starts out commenting on Trump’s health crisis, saying “my heart goes out to Covid”, but he quickly moves on to a scatterbrained takedown of government inefficiency.
11 All spring training, the Nationals have berated themselves for last season’s poor fundamentals, for their scatterbrained baserunning and poor situational hitting, turning prime offensive opportunities into deflating fizzles.
12 The scatterbrained and self-involved Sandy doesn’t really take in much.
13 Prometheus, whose name means forethought, was very wise, wiser even than the gods, but Epimetheus, which means afterthought, was a scatterbrained person who invariably followed his first impulse and then changed his mind.
14 I like to have a romantic life by spending time and putting a lot of effort in and I’m too scatterbrained right now; it’s like I’ve got a thousand things going on.
15 It would be pretty amusing just to watch the assertive Gina Yashere and the seemingly scatterbrained Ms. Firestone hold a conversation.
16 A scatterbrained girl disrupts the daily lives of her aunt and uncle when she arrives for a visit.
17 I will tell myself that it is okay to be scatterbrained once in a while and that sometimes the kindness you show will balance out your faults.
我会告诉自己,偶尔的浮躁无关紧要,友善会弥补你的过错。
18 If you have someone a little scatterbrained on your list, the Tile Mate is a gamechanger.
19 Madeline’s office is crammed with knickknacks and paper work, suggesting that she may be a bit scatterbrained.
20 As Mr. Prud’homme looked at him and listened to the scatterbrained eloquence of his explanation, he could be seen rapidly losing his grip on sternness.
1 头脑散漫的
2 轻率的
wild loose airy unwise facile imprudent harebrained incautious hare-brained scatter-brained giddy-brained incogitant light blind rash windy reckless careless precipitate heady hasty giddy brash thoughtless inconsiderate precipitous unwary flippant unthinking flyaway blithe witless indiscreet unconsidered precipitant scatty lightheaded frenchy unreflecting harum-scarum feather-brained unadvised temerarious
3 丢三落四的
4 思想不集中的
5 思想不集中
6 浮躁的
harebrained scatty hairbrained restless flighty restive fretted light-minded giddy-brained blundering hare-brained buckish
7 轻率
wild loose airy unwise facile imprudent harebrained incautious hare-brained scatter-brained lightly unwisely imprudently brashly incautiously levity airiness imprudence giddy-brained incogitant light blind rash windy reckless careless precipitate heady hasty giddy brash headlong thoughtless inconsiderate precipitous unwary flippant unthinking flyaway blithe witless indiscreet touch-and-go unconsidered precipitant scatty lightheaded frenchy unreflecting harum-scarum feather-brained unadvised temerarious hastily precipitation haste lightness indiscretion temerity flippancy hoity-toity hastiness inconsideration highty-tighty