英：[ˈskætəbreɪn]
美：[ˈskætərbreɪn]
scatterbrain如何读
scatterbrain是什么意思
- n.注意力不集中的人；浮躁的人
scatterbrain自然拼读
scat·ter·brain
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scatterbrain扩展
scatterbrained (adj.)
scatterbrain英英释义
noun
a person who is forgetful, disorganized, or unable to concentrate or think clearly
The English, who had raised eccentricity and poor organization to a high art, and placed the scatterbrain on a pedestal, loathed such Middle European things as rules, conventions, and dictatorships.—Simon Winchester
scatterbrain词源中文解释
也称 scatter-brain，意为“轻率、轻浮的人； 无法进行严肃、连贯思考的人”，始见于1790年，源自形容词 scatter-brained “粗心、轻浮”（1764年），参见 scatter（v.）和 brain（n.）。在比喻的心理意义上， Scattered 可追溯至1620年代，而 scattering 用于“精神分散”一词的使用可追溯至15世纪中叶。与此类似的构词方式还有 scatter-good “挥霍无度的人”（早在13世纪就作为姓氏出现）。
scatterbrain词源英文解释
The first known use of scatterbrain was in 1659
scatterbrain儿童词典英英释义
scatterverb
to cause to separate widely
wind scattered the dry leaves
to place or leave here and there
scattered their toys all over the house
to sow widely and without pattern
to separate and go in different directions
the crowd scattered
to occur or fall without pattern
lakes scattered everywhere in the hills
scatterbrainnoun
a silly careless person incapable of concentration
scatterbrain 例句
1 What a scatterbrain! She forgot to plug in the coffee-maker.
真是迷糊！她忘了给咖啡壶插电。
2 What a scatterbrain！ She forgot to plug in the coffee maker.
真是个糊涂虫！他忘了给咖啡壶插电。
3 My young scatterbrains find it hard to understand that the beast which was so precious two days ago is now of no value whatever.
4 "Faster, Teddy, faster!" she kept urging until even that young scatterbrain began to wonder at her.
5 And in the second place, there was that humanitarian scatterbrain, Armfield.
6 Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving, vicious scatterbrain in a subway station.
7 Beyond that complacent little scatterbrain her own happiness rose lofty and threatening as a storm-cloud.
8 “I’m just kind of a scatterbrain that way.”
9 Aunt Mary is such a scatterbrain that she always forgets something.
玛丽阿姨糊里糊涂的，她总是忘东忘西。
10 He wasn’t a scamp; he was just a scatterbrain—that was the worst you could say against him.
11 And the scatterbrain pup remembered her no better than she remembered him.
12 He is a scatterbrain.
他是一个注意力不集中的人。
13 You have just seen what a hot-tempered scatterbrain I am.
14 Learned to—to be a man, for I do protest the beggar is a better man than ever was his idle scatterbrain lordship.
15 He is a scatterbrain.
他是一个注意力不集中的人.
16 Mary is such a scatterbrain that she always forgets something.
玛丽阿姨糊里糊涂的，她总是东忘忘西。
17 When he came, he turned out to be a swaggering scatterbrain--a "free lance," he called himself in the visitors' book.
18 England's back four remains an accident in waiting, especially with Glen Johnson in one of his prolonged scatterbrain phases.
19 Aunt Mary is such a scatterbrain that she always forgets something.
玛丽阿姨糊里糊涂的,她总是忘东忘西.
20 Oh! with what a pitying scorn our exact and recollective Frenchwoman used to look down on such an incorrigible scatterbrain!