absent-minded [
'æbsnt'maɪndɪd]
a. 心不在焉的, 健忘的
- He had an absent-minded manner.
他表现出心不在焉的样子。 - He became absent-minded with age.
因上了年纪他变得丢三落四的。 - Mr. Lin is an absent-minded teacher.
林先生是位心不在焉的老师。
Absent-minded \Ab`sent-mind"ed\, a.
Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. --
{Ab`sent-mind"ed*ness}, n. -- {Ab`sent-mind"ed*ly}, adv.
- But the first movement alternates brilliant, propulsive music with oddly sour-flavoured slower sections, whose air of unease Gavrilov rather underplayed, so that the effect was almost offhand, or absent-minded.
- Some of Sen. Claiborne deBorda Pell's colleagues say the new Foreign Relations chairman is absent-minded, and he agrees his memory sometimes fails him.