沒有去照顧（人與物）
這一族最貼近那隻沒有伸出去的手：對象是活生生需要被照顧的人或會慢慢敗壞的東西。
neglect, verb, fail to care for · verb · C1
To fail to look after someone or something properly, so they become weak, messy, or unhappy.
疏於照顧
核心畫面
You can picture neglect as a hand that does not reach out. The thing is right there in front of you — a child, a garden, a letter on the table — and you simply do not pick it up. Nothing violent happens; the damage comes from the absence of the hand.
一隻「沒有伸出去的手」。東西就在眼前——一個孩子、一片院子、桌上一封信——你沒有把它拿起來、沒有去碰它。neglec…更多收起
一隻「沒有伸出去的手」。東西就在眼前——一個孩子、一片院子、桌上一封信——你沒有把它拿起來、沒有去碰它。neglect 的傷害不是來自暴力，而是來自「什麼都沒做」：沒有澆水、沒有修理、沒有回頭看一眼。所以被 neglect 的東西不會突然壞掉，而是慢慢變乾、變亂、變不成樣子。這個字裡永遠有一層「你本來可以照顧它」的味道，只是那隻手一直沒有伸過去。From the word’s history
Latin neglegō is nec ("not") + legō ("to pick up, gather"), so the root sense is literally "not to pick up" — the modern meaning is still that unextended hand.
拉丁文 neglegō 由 nec（不）+ legō（撿起、拾取）組成，字面就是「不去撿起來」。這個字根和現代意思幾乎完全對得上：neglect 不是把東西弄壞，而是走過去、看見了、卻沒有彎腰把它撿起來。legō 這個字根你在 collect（一起撿起）、select（挑出來撿）裡也看得到，都是「撿」的動作；neglect 就是它的反面。
Wiktionary, "neglect" (Latin neglegō < nec + legō)
Three branches
該放的注意力沒有放上去
手該伸向的不再是實體的東西，而是「注意力」：你的心思本來該落在某件事上，卻一直沒有落上去。
neglect, verb, overlook · verb · C1
To pay too little attention to something that you should think about or work on.
忽視；疏忽
漏掉了該做的一步
從「長期沒照顧」縮小成「這一次沒做到的一個動作」，時間尺度短了，但仍是同一種缺席。
neglect, verb, fail to do · verb · C1
To not do something that you should do — used as neglect to do something, often when the missing action is a detail you left out.
沒有去做；忘了做
原始詞典資料7 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。
neglectverb/nɪˈɡlɛkt/
- 1
To fail to care for or attend to something.
- to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts
- I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs.
- 2
To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
- to neglect strangers
- 3
To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
- A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece.
- 4
mathematicssciencesTo ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.
- We can neglect this term, as it approaches zero in the limit anyway.
- This problem says to neglect air resistance.
neglectnoun/nɪˈɡlɛkt/
- 1
The act of neglecting.
- 2
The state of being neglected.
- 3
Habitual lack of care.
- Fifteen participants argued that the neglect of discourse on relationships had major implications for the ability of adolescents to acquire courtship skills and maintain relationships. This neglect means that the students acquire knowledge and skills through the media and by observing and imitating others in their immediate environment.
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。