unenterprising

1 The truth was that all the Garnets, and particularly her two sisters, were consumed by an habitual, bilious, unenterprising envy of Cressy.

2 We both wrote and sent to hasten them, but, alas! everything and everybody moved so slowly in those unenterprising times!

3 There are, of course, some among the thirty who are unimaginative and unenterprising.

4 I desired a quiet life and the joys of wedded love, with an agreeable, virtuous, well-born, unambitious, unenterprising husband. 

5 This nerves the African, naturally patient, timid and unenterprising, with heroic courage, and leads him to suffer hunger, cold, pain, the perils of the wilderness, and the more dread penalties of recapture.

6 From them a stink of stale beer, and thick voices bellowing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs—vice gone feeble and unenterprising and dull—the delicacy of a mining camp minus its vigor.

7 Business properly they had none; and their way of life seemed one of placid contentment and unenterprising domestic pleasure.

8 The prosperity of all Kent is crippled by a “combine” of two ill-managed and unenterprising railway companies, with no funds for new developments, grinding out an uncertain dividend by clipping expenditure.

9 Funds were borrowed mainly in France, Britain, Belgium, where investors are often timid and bankers are unenterprising.

10 Had he remained a bachelor, he would have been an unenterprising literary lawyer to the end of his days.

11 The Cura was startled, but he assented with passionate zeal; of his stuff, unenterprising, unimaginative, with room for one idea only, martyrs are made.

12 These unenterprising people have money lying idle in a bank.

这些没有进取精神的人把钱都闲置在银行里。

13 After protracted mental conflict, she grudgingly suggested gravy soup—which Horace thought too unenterprising, and rejected in favour of mock turtle.

14 Yet, to all appearances, and in the satisfaction of all business claims, Jones was normal and unenterprising.

15 Surrounded by the unenterprising Spanish and Portuguese, they have shown themselves to be the industrial leaders of the country.

16 Though so long acquainted with the compass, the Chinese have always been as unenterprising in sailoring as in everything else, and seldom lose sight of the land, if they can help it.

17 Lincoln, there is no doubt, had watched his proceedings, as he watched those of Rosecrans after him, with a feeling of impatience, and set him down as unenterprising and obstinate.

18 "Well, if there are, they must be a very unenterprising lot," said Tommy.

19 The Orpheum had been in low water and had come into the market at a moment when theatrical managers and proprietors were singularly unenterprising and money was short.

20 Of those who have not yet begun to live many are suspicious, violent, melancholy, with little instinct for making life more or fuller, for living and letting live; in business unenterprising and indisposed for work.

1 保守

old-fogy conservative smoky retiring conservatively stuffiness keep in all modesty blue right-wing insular hidebound unprogressive hardshell horse-and-buggy white orthodox reactionary stuffy fuddy-duddy conservation old line

2 无进取心的

shiftless

3 保守的

old-fogy conservative smoky retiring blue right-wing insular hidebound unprogressive hardshell horse-and-buggy white orthodox reactionary stuffy fuddy-duddy old line

4 疲沓

sag