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Insouciance is a light, cheerful not-caring. The person is not worried; they are not carrying the world on their back; they may even look happy about it. It is not , and it is not . Though actually, it can sound a little cool, even careless, if the moment is serious — a smile when others are afraid. The word came from French, and in English it still feels a bit fancy, like something you read rather than something you say on the bus. Friends would say she just doesn’t worry, or he’s so . Writers like insouciance because it has a colour: not only “no worry,” but a kind of easy brightness. The describing word is .
漫不經心、滿不在乎(偏書面;帶點輕鬆、不把事情放在心上,不是無禮)
組成From French insouciance: in- (not) + souciant (worrying).
同家族的字
- insouciantthe adjective; both from French in- 'not' + souciant 'worrying'
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。
insouciancenoun/ɪnˈsuːsi.əns/
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Carelessness, heedlessness, indifference, or casual unconcern.
- So Gelernter, with an insouciance he now regrets, also chose a Lovelace as a namesake—Linda, the lead actress in "Deep Throat."
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Nonchalance.
- She almost felt insulted by [the wild boar's] insouciance as it rooted in her grove.
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。