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单词 unreflecting
释义

unreflecting

/ʌnrɪˈflɛktɪŋ /
adjective
1Not engaging in reflection or thought: an unreflecting hedonist...
  • A nation must be a nation, not a random collection of not always compatible tribes - but crude and unreflecting racism had had its day.
  • Yet to the unreflecting eye they can appear as isolationist, self-serving and even criminal.
  • Their training, he said, ‘renders them very hostile to the revolutionary spirit and the unreflecting passions of the multitude.’
2Not reflecting light: the sea was a dreary, unreflecting grey...
  • A narrow gap opened in its slick, yet unreflecting surface - no doubt the voyager's entrance, and it swayed softly on the buzzing rope.
  • Our campsite is a sliver of sand bordered by a dense thicket of trees on one side and a river of gray unreflecting water on the other.
  • This color, with one-third less white, is very suitable for roofs, and is a cool, unreflecting grey.

Derivatives

unreflectingly

adverb ...
  • My sincere apologies if you feel this casts aspersions upon your grandfather, and in charity I must add that he was a child of his unreflectingly materialist age.
  • Problems arise, however, when it is used, naively and unreflectingly, to apply to physical bodies: we naively suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object.
  • He argued that the demands social structures make on individuals become embedded in patterns of behaviour and perception that people unreflectingly apply in everyday life.

unreflective

adjective ...
  • Is it possible that conservatives are actually the intellectuals, reading books and playing with ideas and thinking about issues, while liberals are, at least comparatively, the unreflective know-nothings?
  • There's no reason to think that our intuitions and conditioned prereflective responses really reflect the demands of morality; the point of moral argument is to be able to unsettle our unreflective responses and practices.
  • A libertarian hawk: ‘I find it sad that so many otherwise bright libertarians seem so unreflective about war.’

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