单词 | myopically |
释义 | myopicallyadv. 1. In the manner characteristic of a short-sighted person; short-sightedly; (also) as regards myopia. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adverb] > short-sightedly short-sightedly1853 near-sightedly1871 myopically1901 1901 G. Gissing Our Friend the Charlatan x He..blinked myopically at his visitors before rising. 1944 C. Beaton Diary 13 Mar. in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xiv. 127 She reappeared and, arms akimbo, stood peering myopically into our shop. 1973 W. M. Duncan Big Timer i. 10 Pale blue eyes which stared myopically from behind thick pebble-grained glasses. 1982 Science 12 Mar. 1411/1 When the animal is hyperopically focused relative to the camera, the distal tips of the orthogonal star arms are reddish in hue; when myopically focused, the tips are blue. 1994 C. Grant X-Files: Goblins x. 112 She stood in the kitchenette, squinting myopically at a calendar hanging on the refrigerator door. 2. figurative. Without foresight or intellectual insight; unimaginatively. ΚΠ 1982 Jrnl. Financial & Quantitative Anal. 17 375 Consider a nonexperimenting monopolist who behaves myopically in that he never looks ahead more than one period into the future. 1991 Bellcore Insight Summer 6/2 Many managers myopically focus on the funding ‘the big winner’—the one new service or product that will justify an investment in a new technology. 1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 July 6/2 He recounts Lenin's launching of the myopically Russocentric, or Bolshevik-centered, Comintern and its early disasters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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