| 词组 | negligent |
| 释义 | negligent 1. Some language commentators, among them Phythian 1979 and Shaw 1975, feel the need to distinguish between negligent and negligible, thus implying that there is some confusion about the use of the two words. Judging from the evidence in our files, however, the words are not used one for the other: they retain their separate meanings. 2. When negligent is used with a preposition, the choice is usually in or of: • ... was perhaps somewhat negligent in his relations with his mother —Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale, 1908 • The insurer is negligent in failing to settle —R. E. Keeton, Harvard Law Rev., May 1954 • ... almost deliberately negligent of the possibility of a war with Germany —H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees It Through, 1916 • ... he was a careless workman, negligent of detail — Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way to Western Civilization, 1930 Negligent has also been occasionally used with about: • ... is equally negligent about fiction —Charles Thomas Samuels, Berkshire Rev., Winter 1970 |
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