Dereliction
[ deri'likʃən ]
n. 无主，抛弃物;溺职;
📝 例句
The previous owners had rescued the building from dereliction.
这座建筑之前的业主将其从破败不堪的状况中挽救了出来。
🌱 联想助记
de + relic 遗物
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
dereliction
n
1 [U] being derelict 遗弃; 弃置
a house in a state of dereliction 弃置的房屋.
2 (idm 习语) ,dereliction of `duty (fml 文) (deliberate) failure to do what one ought to do 失职
be guilty of a serious dereliction of duty 犯严重失职罪.
🔁 扩展释义
*[,deri'likʃәn]n. 玩忽职守, 抛弃物【法】 抛弃, 遗弃, 放弃
📖 同为「GRE」词汇
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I had a busy day. I'm done.
我今天很忙，现在精疲力尽。
Did you see Mr. Jones yesterday?
你昨天看见琼斯先生了吗？
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.
当读者到小说最后几页了解到书中女主人公，那位一向待大家很好的可爱的老妇人年轻时一连毒死了她的5个丈夫时，不禁会毛骨悚然。