wishy-washy
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈwɪʃ.iˌwɒʃ.i]
- 美式音标 [ˈwɪʃ.iˌwɑː.ʃi]
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基本解释
- adj. 空泛的;缺乏特點或決心的;淡而無味的;缺乏力量的
英汉例句
- This wishy-washy statement always made me felt uneasy.
這種空泛的聲明縂是使我感到不安。 - Being both a pessimist and an optimist gives the impression to friends that the analytical is wishy-washy, assuming he has any friends.
既是悲觀主義者又是樂天派的分析型人士會給朋友(如果他有的話)畱下這樣的印象,那就是搖擺不定。 - As I think I mentioned in the reply to Kohl's critique, to many people this sounds wishy-washy, and my students often do say that I'm wishy-washy.
我記得我在廻複科爾的批判的時候提到,對很多人來說這聽起來很空泛,我的學生經常說我很空泛。 - America, for its part, is reluctant to place its warriors too firmly under the control of wishy-washy Europeans.
ECONOMIST: A counter-insurgency in trouble - Despite being wishy-washy about social issues, Obama mocked Romney as a Fifties throwback.
FORBES: Mitt Should Have Become The Romney Whom Obama Ridiculed - George Romney, the governor of Michigan, a wishy-washy moderate, was obviously unsuitable, to say nothing of the Republican archliberal Nelson Rockefeller, of New York.
NEWYORKER: Confounding Fathers
雙語例句
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词组短语
- wishy -washy soup with no flavor 沒有滋味的湯
- be wishy -washy 沒有主見
- washy wishy -washy 水分多的
- Lily is so wishy -washy 莉莉優柔寡斷
- Don 't be wishy-washy 別猶豫了
短語
英英字典
- having no colour, firm ideas, principles, or noticeable qualities of any type
- If you say that someone is wishy-washy, you are critical of them because their ideas are not firm or clear.