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Imprudence is not being sensible or wise — you take a risk a careful person would not take. Driving too fast in heavy rain, saying a secret in a crowded room, lending money you cannot lose: those can be called imprudence. The word is formal. You can also say 'an imprudence' for one act. It belongs with prudent and ; the im- simply turns the wise word around. Though actually, this is about judgement, not about manners. A different word, impudence, means being rude or too bold, and the two look alike on the page. Imprudence is closer to 'that was not wise' than to 'that was rude.'
不謹慎、輕率
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
imprudencenoun/ɪmˈpɹuːdn̩s/
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The quality or state of being imprudent; lack of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection.
- [Hamilton were to have said:] nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
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An imprudent act.
- Ah: my dear—Madam there is the great mistake—'tis this very conscious Innocence that is of the greatest Prejudice to you—what is it makes you negligent of Forms and careless of the world's opinion—why the consciousness of your Innocence—what makes you thoughtless in your Conduct and apt to run into a thousand little imprudences—
- At about the age of twenty-three, to crown his other imprudences, he married, without improving his reduced circumstances thereby.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。