circumspect
circumspect 英 [ˈsɜ:kəmspekt] 美 [ˈsɜrkəmspekt]
adj. 细心的，周到的；慎重的
- If you are circumspect, you think carefully before doing or saying anything. A good quality in someone entrusted with responsibility, though sometimes boring in a friend.
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- adj. 细心的，周到的；慎重的
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1. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect.
我们决不可能指望一个生龙活虎的青年会始终小心周到。
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2. Some in this camp are far more circumspect and argue that administrative reform might be the best route, for now at least.
有些右派人士更为谨慎，他们认为，至少对现在而言，行政机构改革可能是最好的一条路径。
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3. He would have said: this society is very complicated and you should be circumspect in thinking about what you can achieve, and that invading to install democracy without trust is doomed.
他会说：这个社会异常复杂，要达成既定目标，你得考虑周全，建立无法取信于人的民主制度，这样的入侵行动注定是要失败的。
- circumspect (adj.) "cautious, wary," literally "looking about on all sides," early 15c., from Latin circumspectus "deliberate, guarded, well-considered," past participle of circumspicere "look around, take heed," from circum "around, round about" (see circum-) + specere "to look" (from PIE root *spek- "to observe"). Related: Circumspectly; circumspectness.
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