feckless

adj.

1. 品格差的；不负责任的
   having a weak character; not behaving in a responsible way
   1. Her husband was a charming, but lazy and feckless man.
      她的丈夫讨人喜欢，但却是个懒惰没有出息的人。

1. ADJ-GRADED 无能的;软弱的;不中用的
   If you describe someone as feckless, you mean that they lack determination or strength, and are unable to do anything properly.
   1. He regarded the young man as feckless and irresponsible.
      他认为这个年轻人不光无能，还不负责任。

1. He regarded the young man as feckless and irresponsible.
   他认为这个年轻人不光无能，还不负责任。
2. A feckless son is a disgrace to his parents.
   儿子没出息，父母脸上也无光。
3. From the U.S., the European debt crisis can seem like a black comedy populated by regional stereotypes: iron-fisted Anglo-Saxons, feckless Mediterraneans, and haughty Brussels bureaucrats.
   在美国看来，欧债危机就像是由地域特色鲜明的老套人物扮演的一场荒诞喜剧：吝啬的盎格鲁撒克逊人、不负责任的地中海人以及盛气凌人的布鲁塞尔官僚。
4. That voracious demand relentlessly pushes up prices – and Grantham emphasizes that supply and demand, rather than evil speculators or feckless central bankers, are the driving forces here, whatever posture our president might choose to take.
   这样旺盛的需求持续推高了价格&格雷厄姆强调，推高价格的是供需因素，而不是讨厌的投机者或不负责任的央行。
5. Indeed, the vast bulk of the official loans to Greece were not made for its benefit at all, but for that of its feckless private creditors.
   实际上，很大一部分发放给希腊的官方贷款根本不是为了希腊的利益，而是为了让无能的私营部门债权人全身而退。
6. In those days he was a feckless and poverty-stricken young drop-out.
   那些日子里，他是一个无精打采的穷困的退学生。
7. Germany complains it is footing the bill for its feckless neighbours.
   德国抱怨，自己在为不负责任的邻居埋单。
8. Ms Merkel is not about to reward the feckless.
   默克尔不会奖赏不负责任者。
9. Her husband was a charming, but lazy and feckless man.
   她的丈夫讨人喜欢，但却是个懒惰没有出息的人。
10. Why should prudent Germans subsidise feckless Greeks, the discourse now runs?
    有人会说，严谨的德国人为什么要贴补不负责任的希腊人？
11. Susan's fellow monsters have a feckless charm, but they'reall but useless in approaching the job at hand.
    苏珊的怪物伙伴都是外强中亁，在处理手头上的工作时都无能。
12. America may wish to pivot towards Asia and Europe may be turned inward, but the Middle East offers no respite to international or regional actors. It is equally unforgiving of the reckless and the feckless.
    美国可能希望把重心转向亚洲，欧洲的关注焦点可能转向内部，但中东不给国际或者区域参与者丝毫喘息之机，也不原谅任何鲁莽者和软弱者。
13. Fingers have been pointed at supine regulators, greedy bankers and investors, naive consumers and feckless politicians.
    人们已经把矛头指向了松懈的监管机构、贪婪的银行家和投资者、天真的消费者以及软弱无能的政治家。
14. The other members of the group whom Jordan meets are the Gipsy rafael, amiable but feckless, and pablo's wife pilar, an ugly woman who is far braver than her husband.
    乔丹见到的游击队其他成员有友善厚道但缺乏能力的吉普赛人拉斐尔和帕布洛的妻子皮拉尔。皮拉尔这个女人相貌虽丑，却比她丈夫勇敢得多。
15. There is some moral content to their critique it is wrong to make the prudent pay for the reckless and feckless but the policy solutions they seek are mostly a matter of dollars and cents.
    他们的批评带有一些道德成分让谨慎的人为鲁莽轻率的人付出代价是不对的然而他们所寻求的政治解决方案，却大多关系到真金白银。
16. Unfortunately, Australia's feckless leaders are destroying this by promoting high population growth without any sort of industrial strategy.
    不幸啊，澳大利亚的无能的领导者采取了促进人口增长而没有相应的工业发展战略。
17. The fact that Europeans led the way in calling for a campaign in Libya that they are incapable of conducting alone, has merely re-enforced the American view that the European arm of NATO is, to varying degrees, feckless and unreliable.
    欧洲带头呼吁对利比亚实施干预、而自己又无力独自采取行动，这一事实的作用只是再次强化了美国的如下观点：北约的欧洲部队或多或少是低效和不可靠的。
18. Between corrupt mortgage brokers, feckless lenders, and risk-happy hedge funds, there's plenty to keep investors and policymakers up at night.
    腐化的抵押经纪人、无能的放贷者和热衷于冒险的套利基金所组成的队伍中，有相当一部分让投资者和政策制定者一天忙到晚。
19. And Washington is annoyed at Europe's feckless attempts at economic reforms.
    美国方面对欧盟不痛不痒的经济改革也懊恼不已。
20. That has not stopped Mr Romney from calling Mr Obama's foreign policy "feckless" and accusing him of "an eloquently justified surrender of world leadership".
    这并没有阻止罗姆尼先生称奥巴马的外交政策软弱无力，并且指控他是一个世界领导阶层里非常善辩的把自己的妥协合理化的人。
21. Two years of feckless negotiations
    拖了两年毫无结果的谈判
22. I can hold a tea, soft: hand and feckless man, I do not look down on you.
    红袖任我抱了一会，轻声说：放手，没出息的男人，别让我看不起你。
23. By other measures, curiously, teenagers are still feckless.
    但奇怪的是，从其他方面来看青少年仍有其问题。
24. A childhood that had caused him to turn out feckless and improvident.
    使他变得玩世不恭、挥霍无度的童年时代。
25. China will predictably push for a return to dialogue, but I cannot imagine any appetite in Washington, Seoul, Tokyo or the international community for more negotiations that will lead to more feckless agreements.
    可以预计的是，中国将推动各方重新展开对话，但我无法想象美国、韩国、日本或国际社会有兴趣继续参与这些将导致更多无效协议的会谈。
26. At present, the supervision of the procuratorial organ for commutation and parole is feckless in practice, because the legal regulations and the procuratorial organ are imperfect.
    目前在实践中，由于法律规定不完善等客观方面的原因，还有检察机关自身的主观方面原因，造成了检察机关对减刑假释的检察监督不力，在很多环节都出现了检察监督缺位的状况。

adj

1. generally incompetent and ineffectual
   1. feckless attempts to repair the plumbing
   2. inept handling of the account

   Synonym:    inept

2. not fit to assume responsibility