desultory

adj. 散漫的；斷斷續續的；不連貫的；雜亂的

英語翻譯

Adjective:

marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another;
\\\"desultory thoughts\\\"
\\\"the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties\\\"

造句

用作形容詞(adj.)

His conduct during these first weeks had been desultory beyond description.
在這兩三個禮拜之內，他的行動可以說是散漫得沒法形容。
He broke into a desultory chat with me over his business affairs.
他突然開始和我漫無邊際地談起他的生意來了。
Our planning proceeded in a desultory fashion.
我們的計劃工作是以一種雜亂無章的方式進行的。

常用短語

Persons of a light and desultory temper, that skip about, and are blown with every wind, as Grasshoppers are.
出自：R. Bentley
I shot at it but it was so desultory that I missed my aim.
出自：G. White
He found desultory employment as a soda-jerker, or as a delivery boy.
出自：T. C. Wolfe
The rest of the short afternoon..had been lost to..napping, reading, and desultory chatter about the children, the new position that was in the offing, the utopia that was possible after that.
出自：I. Wallace
The search out west, desultory as it was compared with the scouring of the Blue Mountains.
出自：R. Travers
He pushed the tagliatelli around his plate in a desultory way, indifferent to the gaieties of the Piazza Navona.
出自：A. Guinness