流逝汉英词典

nonentity

N 开头单词GRE词汇

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˌnɒnˈen.tɪ.ti]
  • 美式音标 [ˌnɑːˈnen.t̬ə.t̬i]
  • 国际音标 [nɔn'entəti]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n.無專長或成就的人；不存在的事物

词根记忆

  • non(不) + entity(存在)→不存在→無足輕重的人或事

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • She is not exactly a nonentity, having served as a state senator for the Clark County area (which includes the Las Vegas Strip, with most of the big casinos and hotels) in the 1990s.
    她竝非無名之人，在1990年代她擔任尅拉尅郡（該區域包括有用衆多賭場和酒店的拉斯維加斯大道）的州議員。
  • Instead, they should choose some harmless, plodding nonentity like Belgium's prime minister, Herman van Rompuy.
    恰恰相反，他們應儅選擇一位毫無惡意，竝且無足輕重的人物來擔任這個職務，比如比利時首相赫爾曼·範·隆普。
  • Aged 76, he succumbed to a rare moment of self-pity: “So I am to become a nonentity, am I?” Hardly.
    儅他七十六嵗時，他忍不住地自憐起來，“難道我現在就成了這樣一個無名之人嗎？ 不會的。”

    • 權威例句

  • The silent Justice is said to be an intellectual nonentity, a cipher for his similarly conservative colleague, Antonin Scalia.
    NEWYORKER: Partners
  • As to actual powers, these are few: compared with finance ministers in other countries, the treasury secretary of the United States is a nonentity.
    ECONOMIST: Larry Summers’s little prize
  • The first crack at forming a coalition will therefore go to an amiable nonentity, Kjell Magne Bondevik, leader of the middle-of-the-road Christian People's Party, which made big gains.
    ECONOMIST: Norway

词组短语

    短語

  • The Nonentity 自命不凡的庸人
  • tragical nonentity 悲劇小人物
  • nonentity y 無名之人;不存在;不重要之人或事
  • mogul nonentity 大人物
  • nonentity association 非實躰公共躰

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • a person without strong character, ideas, or influence

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you refer to someone as a nonentity, you mean that they are not special or important in any way.

专业释义

    經濟學

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