apathy

• n. 冷漠，無興趣，漠不關心；無感情

前綴a-, 無，沒有。詞根path, 感覺，感情。

apathy (n.)

c. 1600, "freedom from suffering," from French apathie (16c.), from Latin apathia, from Greek apatheia "freedom from suffering, impassability, want of sensation," from apathes "without feeling, without suffering or having suffered," from a- "without" (see a- (3)) + pathos "emotion, feeling, suffering" (see pathos). Originally a positive quality; sense of "indolence of mind, indifference to what should excite" is from c. 1733.

1. Apathy is the long-standing curse of British local democracy.

冷漠是英國地方民主製度長期以來難以推廣的禍根。

來自柯林斯例句

2. There is widespread apathy among the electorate.

選民普遍態度冷淡。

來自《權威詞典》

3. We have been worried about her apathy since her husband died.

她丈夫死後,我們一直為她對一切都持冷漠態度而擔憂.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

4. He was sunk in apathy after his failure.

他失敗後心恢意冷.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. He has an apathy to food.

他不思飲食.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》