inept
inept 英 [ɪˈnept] 美 [ɪnˈɛpt]
adj. 笨拙的；不适当的
- A clumsy, incompetent person — or an ineffective action — is inept. When you're inept, you don't know what you're doing or just can't get it done.
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- adj. 笨拙的；不适当的
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1. In the service of the empress, this inept chauffeur faced no legal sanction for the mishap.
由于服侍太后，这位无能的司机在这场车祸中没有受到任何法律的制裁。
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2. The first thing we all need to know about information online is how to detect crap, a technical term I use for information tainted by ignorance, inept communication, or deliberate deception.
关于网上信息，我们首先需要知道的是如何检测“废话”，这个技术名词是我用来描述那些被愚昧所感染的信息，无效的沟通，或者是蓄意的欺骗。
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3. Historians have even speculated that he was partly-Jewish himself – or even that his mother died at the hands of an inept Jewish physician.
历史学家们猜测，甚至他很可能自己就是犹太人，或他的母亲因一个无能的犹太医生而死。
- inept (adj.) c. 1600, "not fit or suitable, inapt," also "absurd, foolish," from French inepte "incapable" (14c.) or directly from Latin ineptus "unsuitable, improper, impertinent; absurd, awkward, silly, tactless," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + aptus "apt" (see apt). Related: Ineptly; ineptness.
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