impolitic是英語形容詞,意為“失策的;不明智的”,發音為英式[ɪmˈpɒlətɪk]、美式[ɪmˈpɑːlətɪk],由否定前綴“im-”與“politic”(明智的)組合構成。
該詞用於描述缺乏周全考慮或違背社交適宜性的行為,如“impolitic act”(失策之舉)。其副詞形式為impoliticly(失策地),近義詞包括unwise(不明智的)、inexpedient(不適宜的),反義詞為politic(審慎的)。在考試及正式語境中常考釋義為“不得當的”或“笨拙的”,例句如“It is impolitic to offend people who can help you”(觸怒助力者實為失策)。
該詞起源及歷史演變暫無明確文獻記載,但在學術著作如《The Body Impolitic》等書名中被用作特定表達。
基本介紹
- 外文名:impolitic
- 英式讀音:[ɪmˈpɑːlətɪk]
- 美式讀音:[ɪmˈpɑːlətɪk]
- 詞性:形容詞
單詞釋義
單詞用法
短語搭配
雙語例句
- It would have been impolitic to refuse his offer. 當時若拒絕了他的好意當然是不明智的。
- It is impolitic to offend people who can help you. 觸怒能幫助你的人是很失策的。
- It is impolitic to offend people who can help you. 觸怒能幫助你的人是失策的。
- It was impolitic to pay the slightest tribute t the enemy. 對敵人表達最小的尊敬也是不明智的。
- “I am biting my tongue to avoid saying something impolitic,” a bank official wrote at the time. “我保持緘默,以免出言不當,”一名世行官員當時寫道。
- Charities are often tempted to exploit the understandable reluctance of the general public to ask impolitic questions such as, how many people really died in the Congo wars. 通常是唆使慈善機構利用公眾合乎常情的勉強提出一些不恰當的問題。
- Gates knew that what he said was impolitic; after the speech he reached Moseley at his father-in-law's home in Texas to assure him that he hadn't meant to single out the general or the Air Force. 蓋茨知道他說的話不高明,演講之後就到了莫斯利岳父在德克薩斯的家,向莫斯利保證,他不是單挑他這位將軍或空軍部隊。

