wishy-washy
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈwɪʃ.iˌwɒʃ.i]
- 美式音标 [ˈwɪʃ.iˌwɑː.ʃi]
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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
英汉例句
- 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。 - 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
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- 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
短语
英英字典
- having no colour, firm ideas, principles, or noticeable qualities of any type
- If you say that someone is wishy-washy, you are critical of them because their ideas are not firm or clear.