abstractedly

1. For several days after Tess's arrival Clare, sitting abstractedly reading from some book, periodical, or piece of music just come by post, hardly noticed that she was present at table.
   在苔丝来后的好几天里，克莱尔老是坐在那儿聚精会神地读书，读杂志，或者是读他刚收到的邮局寄来的乐谱，几乎没有注意到桌子上苔丝的出现。
2. I peeped through the interstice abstractedly and saw a tiny violet flower, quivering. I thought that must be your spirit.
   我从窗棂之隙痴痴的窥望着，看见一朵紫色的小花在颤栗，我想那该是你的魂灵罢。
3. He took the brief-case abstractedly, without speaking.
   他二话不说，心不在焉地把公文包接了过来。
4. Winston gazed abstractedly through the muslin curtain.
   温斯顿透过薄纱窗帘，心不在焉地盯着窗外。
5. But they were long healed over, evidence of something that would otherwise be forgotten; sometimes she traced them abstractedly with a finger.
   某些东西的证据总会在其他的方面被遗忘，有时候她会用令人费解的方式拿一只手指来回描绘着那些疤痕。
6. He stood in the middle of the kitchen, the statue of Adonis again, staring abstractedly out the back windows.
   他站在厨房的中间，又变成了一尊阿多尼斯的雕像，心不在焉地向后窗外看去。
7. He fiddled abstractedly with his knife and fork as he turned over in his mind the remarks the man with the moustache had just made.
   他机械地运动着他的刀叉，心里翻上落下的，却只是那位月牙须狭长脸的几句话。
8. I do not mean, of course, that our modern-day Athenians roam abstractedly through the streets reciting poetry and philosophy, or that the modern-day Visigoths are killers.
   当然，我的意思不是说我们现代的雅典人遐想着漫步于街头，吟诵着诗歌和哲学，或者现代的西哥特人是嗜杀成性者。

adv

1. in an absentminded or preoccupied manner
   1. he read the letter absently

   Synonym:    absentlyinattentivelyabsentmindedly