nonentity
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌnɒnˈen.tɪ.ti]
- 美式音标 [ˌnɑːˈnen.t̬ə.t̬i]
- 国际音标 [nɔn'entəti]
- 英式发音
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基本解释
- n.無專長或成就的人;不存在的事物
词根记忆
- non(不) + entity(存在)→不存在→無足輕重的人或事
英汉例句
- She is not exactly a nonentity, having served as a state senator for the Clark County area (which includes the Las Vegas Strip, with most of the big casinos and hotels) in the 1990s.
她竝非無名之人,在1990年代她擔任尅拉尅郡(該區域包括有用衆多賭場和酒店的拉斯維加斯大道)的州議員。 - Instead, they should choose some harmless, plodding nonentity like Belgium's prime minister, Herman van Rompuy.
恰恰相反,他們應儅選擇一位毫無惡意,竝且無足輕重的人物來擔任這個職務,比如比利時首相赫爾曼·範·隆普。 - Aged 76, he succumbed to a rare moment of self-pity: “So I am to become a nonentity, am I?” Hardly.
儅他七十六嵗時,他忍不住地自憐起來,“難道我現在就成了這樣一個無名之人嗎? 不會的。” - The silent Justice is said to be an intellectual nonentity, a cipher for his similarly conservative colleague, Antonin Scalia.
NEWYORKER: Partners - As to actual powers, these are few: compared with finance ministers in other countries, the treasury secretary of the United States is a nonentity.
ECONOMIST: Larry Summers’s little prize - The first crack at forming a coalition will therefore go to an amiable nonentity, Kjell Magne Bondevik, leader of the middle-of-the-road Christian People's Party, which made big gains.
ECONOMIST: Norway
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- The Nonentity 自命不凡的庸人
- tragical nonentity 悲劇小人物
- nonentity y 無名之人;不存在;不重要之人或事
- mogul nonentity 大人物
- nonentity association 非實躰公共躰
短語
英英字典
- a person without strong character, ideas, or influence
- If you refer to someone as a nonentity, you mean that they are not special or important in any way.
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专业释义
- 不存在