词汇释义
haphazard TEM8 IELTS GRE
UK /ˌhæpˈhæz.əd/ US /ˌhæpˈhæz.ɚd/
adj, (disapproval) If you describe something as haphazard, you are critical of it because it is not at all organized or is not arranged according to a plan. 无计划的，杂乱无章的，任意的
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外刊例句
1. Although facilities locked down in March of last year, government efforts to help were haphazard.(Seattle Times)
2. He said that the “haphazard actions on TikTok fail that test and will only invite retaliation against American companies.”(New York Times)
3. The data, which was released after weeks of pressure from media outlets and lawmakers, paints a picture of a haphazard first-come, first-served program that was not designed to evaluate the relative need of the recipients.(Washington Post)
4. Owners with sloppy records will not only find it harder to compile their returns, the haphazard books may be costing them money — they may overlook expenses that will lower their tax bills.(Seattle Times)
5. It’s weakened more than 2 percent year-to-date and worse still, it experienced a flash crash on Jan. 3, which was a reminder of all its vulnerabilities: from geopolitics to upcoming elections and haphazard monetary policy.(Reuters)
6. President Trump rushed the United States down this path in haphazard fashion, but a change in American strategy was overdue.(Washington Post)
7. And in the 1920s, the Postal Service refused to establish a post office in Arlington because the street names were so confusing and haphazard.(Seattle Times)
8. They scrambled to cobble together a public statement trying to defuse a mounting uproar over the seemingly haphazard communication.(New York Times)
9. “Cargill urges all parties to focus on negotiated solutions over haphazard trade restrictions.”(Wall Street Journal)
10. “The striking feature of Trump’s use of national security is the inconsistent and haphazard use of the term, so as to render it meaningless,” said George Magnus, an associate at Oxford University’s China Center.(Washington Post)
11. Whether I'm learning from a paper manual, and online guide or a human person, it's always confusing, unclear, haphazard, and nonsensical.(New York Times)
12. Maxx, with its dreary fluorescent lighting and haphazard displays, is about as glamorous as the average petrol station.(TheEconomist)
词汇搭配
be, seem, become haphazard
extremely, fairly, very, apparently, seemingly haphazard
in a haphazard fashion, in a haphazard manner, in a haphazard way
词汇家族
haphazardness, haplessness, hap, haphazardly, haplessly, haply, hapless
词汇来源
"characterized by randomness, chance, accidental," 1670s, from noun meaning "a chance, accident" (1570s), from hap (n.) "chance, luck" + hazard (n.) "risk, danger, peril."
近义词
aimless, arbitrary, desultory, erratic, random, scattered, slapdash, stray
反义词
methodical (also methodic), nonrandom, orderly, organized, regular, systematic, systematized
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