abortive
abortive 英 [əˈbɔ:tɪv] 美 [əˈbɔrtɪv]
adj. 失败的；流产的；堕胎的
- Did you ever start something and not finish it? If so, that was an abortive project. Abortive things don't get finished.
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- adj. 失败的；流产的；堕胎的
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1. The period covered the abortive US-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and Cuban missile crisis a year later, as well as dozens of CIA attempts on Castro's life.
这段时间发生的事情包括，1961年，以美国为后盾的猪湾入侵事件的流产，一年后古巴导弹危机，以及CIA几十次暗杀卡斯特罗的企图。
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2. The captain, finding that their design had proved abortive, went directly to the place of meeting, and told his troop that they had lost their labour, and must return to their cave.
这个首领，发现他们的计划已经被证明流产了，直接来到了他们集合的地方，告诉他的队伍他们做了无用功，必须回到他们的山洞。
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3. But this shrouded underlying political difficulties later manifest in left-wing terrorism and an abortive military coup in 1970 that involved mafia and fascists.
但1970年代被政治困境掩藏，随后显明的左翼恐怖主义和失败的军事政变里就包括了黑手党和法西斯主义者。
- abortive (adj.) late 14c., "born prematurely or dead," from Latin abortivus "prematurely born; pertaining to miscarriage; causing abortion," from abort-, past participle stem of aboriri "disappear, miscarry, fail" (see abort). From 14c.-18c. stillborn children or domestic animals were said to be abortive. Transferred meaning "not brought to completion or successful issue" is from 1590s. Also see abortion. Related: Abortiveness.
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