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If work is slapdash, someone did it too fast and did not take care. The paint is patchy, the screws are loose, the homework has half the answers. People use it for jobs, writing, and plans. You can also use it like an adverb: they put the shelf up slapdash, meaning in that rushing, careless way. It feels informal — the kind of word a teacher, a boss, or a parent uses when they are not pleased. Though actually, it is not the same as quick. Quick work can still be careful. Slapdash means the speed ate the care. It is also not a word for a whole person so much as for what they made: you call the work slapdash more often than you call the person a slapdash.
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原始詞典資料5 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。
slapdashadj/ˈslæpdæʃ/
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Produced or carried out hastily; haphazard; careless.
- They had seen Poland, and that was the sort of slovenly, slapdash place they were used to, but once across the German frontier they found everything—crops, roads, buildings—uncannily different.
- When you're in the front entrance, get a feel for what's going on. Tours are never timed to coincide with breaks but if there are any children milling about, see what they're up to. If they're on a dutiful errand, for example delivering registers, the school probably encourages a responsible attitude. If they're play-fighting in the corridor without consequence, it tells a less impressive story and could mean a slapdash approach to discipline.
slapdashadv/ˈslæpdæʃ/
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In a hasty or careless manner.
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Directly, right there; slap-bang.
- Van Eyck signed his portrait of the Arnolfinis slapdash in the center of the painting.
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With a slap; all at once; slap.
- And yet, slap dash, is all again In every sinew, nerve, and vein; Runs here and there, like Hamlet's ghost
slapdashverb/ˈslæpdæʃ/
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To apply, or apply something to, in a hasty, careless, or rough manner; to roughcast.
- to slapdash mortar or paint on a wall
- to slapdash a wall
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。