喜樂美語

noncommittal

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

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noncommittaladj/ˌnɒnkəˈmɪtl̩/

  • 1

    Tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion.

    • The Major's face was noncommittal.
    • The noncommittal Indians would give no counsel as to fording.

noncommittalnoun/ˌnɒnkəˈmɪtl̩/

  • 1

    Failure to commit to a decision or course of action.

    • As a result of cowardly noncommittals during the immediate postelection period, there was so much strain on several black-white Democratic relationships that they approached open ruptures.
  • 2

    A voter etc. who has not yet committed to a decision.

    • Where they occur, in the Liberal increases in Quebec and Ontario for instance, they are offset by declines in the number of undecideds or noncommittals.

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。