sketchy 英 [ˈsketʃi]   美 [ˈskɛtʃi]

sketchy

sketchy  英 [ˈsketʃi] 美 [ˈskɛtʃi]

adj. 写生风格的;写生的;概略的 

名词复数:sketchies  比较级:sketchier  最高级:sketchiest 

The only television was state television, and the primary contact with the outside world was via sketchy phone lines. 唯一的电视是国家电视台,埃及人主要通过粗大的电话线与外界进行联系。
He saw this as an extension of the “scientific socialism” of Marx and Engles, which argued for a materialist conception of history but was sketchy on the details. 他的这个理论扩展于马克思与恩格斯的科学社会主义。 该理论基于历史唯物主义思想,但是在细节上有点含糊不清。

  • Something sketchy is incomplete: it includes the major points but lacks detail. If a political candidate avoids going into detail about her political views, you might say her platform is sketchy.
  • 请先登录
  • adj. 写生风格的;写生的;概略的
  • 1. The only television was state television, and the primary contact with the outside world was via sketchy phone lines.

    唯一的电视是国家电视台,埃及人主要通过粗大的电话线与外界进行联系。

  • 2. He saw this as an extension of the “scientific socialism” of Marx and Engles, which argued for a materialist conception of history but was sketchy on the details.

    他的这个理论扩展于马克思与恩格斯的科学社会主义。 该理论基于历史唯物主义思想,但是在细节上有点含糊不清。

  • 3. The word sketchy here is not pejorative because millennia of philosophy of language have shown how hard (or even impossible) it is to come up with a truly rigorous model of natural language.

    这里说粗略 并非轻视,因为数千年来的语言哲学表明要建立自然语言真正严格意义上的模型是很难的(甚至是不可能的)。

  • sketchy (adj.) 1805, "having the form or character of a sketch," from sketch (n.) + -y (2). Colloquial sense of "unsubstantial, imperfect, flimsy" is from 1878, perhaps via the notion of "unfinished." Related: Sketchily; sketchiness.
sketchy / ˈsketʃi ; NAmE ˈsketʃi / adjective ( sketch·ier , sketch·iest ) not complete or detailed and therefore not very useful 粗略的;概略的;不完备的 SYN rough He gave us a very sketchy account of his visit. 他跟我们非常粗略地讲了他参观的情况。 sketchy notes 简略的笔记 sketch·ily / ; NAmE / adverb sketchi·ness / ˈsketʃinəs ; NAmE ˈsketʃinəs / noun [uncountable ] sketchy sketchier sketchiest sketchy / ˈsketʃi ; NAmE ˈsketʃi / sketch·ily / ; NAmE / sketchi·ness / ˈsketʃinəs ; NAmE ˈsketʃinəs /
  • 请先登录