Heedless

(adj.) characterized by careless unconcern; 'the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes'- Edith Wharton; 'reckless squandering of public funds' .

(adj.) marked by or paying little heed or attention; 'We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics'--Franklin D. Roosevelt; 'heedless of danger'; 'heedless of the child's crying' .

编辑:耶鲁

• A minute after one little hand stole out from beneath her face, to which it had been pressed, and softly caressed the heedless foot. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She is not actuated by malevolence, but sheer, heedless folly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• But heedless of the peasant's warning, the players moved straightway toward the castle. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The little heedless tyrant had so destroyed it. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The ordinary man prefers easy ways so long as they may be followed, and is almost wilfully heedless whether they end at last in a cul-de-sac. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Whence did she acquire the gift to be heedless and never offend? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I declined it of course, with all the courtesy I could put into my manner; she danced off heedless and lightsome. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But Madame Olenska, heedless of tradition, was attired in a long robe of red velvet bordered about the chin and down the front with glossy black fur. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• About the first adventure we had yesterday afternoon, after landing here, came near finishing that heedless Blucher. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Curious to consider how heedless flies are! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• If you had been more mindful of yourself, and less of me, when we grew up here together, I think my heedless fancy never would have wandered from you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I have ze idea--it come to me in a moment--zat ze silk in zis magazin-- Ferguson, how heedless I am. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• So heedless was he of time or object, that being bound for Athens, he wandered as far out of his way as Bath. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• They walked off, utterly heedless of Mr. Rushworth's repeated question of, Shall I go too? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.

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