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wishy-washy

W 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈwɪʃ.iˌwɒʃ.i]
  • 美式音标 [ˈwɪʃ.iˌwɑː.ʃi]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj. 空泛的；缺乏特点或决心的；淡而无味的；缺乏力量的

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英汉例句

    双语例句

  • This wishy-washy statement always made me felt uneasy.
    这种空泛的声明总是使我感到不安。
  • Being both a pessimist and an optimist gives the impression to friends that the analytical is wishy-washy, assuming he has any friends.
    既是悲观主义者又是乐天派的分析型人士会给朋友（如果他有的话）留下这样的印象，那就是摇摆不定。
  • 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.
    我记得我在回复科尔的批判的时候提到，对很多人来说这听起来很空泛，我的学生经常说我很空泛。

    • 权威例句

  • 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

词组短语

    短语

  • wishy -washy soup with no flavor 没有滋味的汤
  • be wishy -washy 没有主见
  • washy wishy -washy 水分多的
  • Lily is so wishy -washy 莉莉优柔寡断
  • Don 't be wishy-washy 别犹豫了

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • having no colour, firm ideas, principles, or noticeable qualities of any type

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you say that someone is wishy-washy, you are critical of them because their ideas are not firm or clear.