nonentity

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌnɒnˈen.tɪ.ti]
• 美式音标 [ˌnɑːˈnen.t̬ə.t̬i]
• 国际音标 [nɔn'entəti]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n.无专长或成就的人；不存在的事物

词根记忆

• non(不) + entity(存在)→不存在→无足轻重的人或事

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• She is not exactly a nonentity, having served as a state senator for the Clark County area (which includes the Las Vegas Strip, with most of the big casinos and hotels) in the 1990s.
  她并非无名之人，在1990年代她担任克拉克郡（该区域包括有用众多赌场和酒店的拉斯维加斯大道）的州议员。
• Instead, they should choose some harmless, plodding nonentity like Belgium's prime minister, Herman van Rompuy.
  恰恰相反，他们应当选择一位毫无恶意，并且无足轻重的人物来担任这个职务，比如比利时首相赫尔曼·范·隆普。
• Aged 76, he succumbed to a rare moment of self-pity: “So I am to become a nonentity, am I?” Hardly.
  当他七十六岁时，他忍不住地自怜起来，“难道我现在就成了这样一个无名之人吗？ 不会的。”

权威例句

• The silent Justice is said to be an intellectual nonentity, a cipher for his similarly conservative colleague, Antonin Scalia.
  NEWYORKER: Partners
• As to actual powers, these are few: compared with finance ministers in other countries, the treasury secretary of the United States is a nonentity.
  ECONOMIST: Larry Summers’s little prize
• The first crack at forming a coalition will therefore go to an amiable nonentity, Kjell Magne Bondevik, leader of the middle-of-the-road Christian People's Party, which made big gains.
  ECONOMIST: Norway

词组短语

短语

• The Nonentity 自命不凡的庸人
• tragical nonentity 悲剧小人物
• nonentity y 无名之人;不存在;不重要之人或事
• mogul nonentity 大人物
• nonentity association 非实体公共体

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a person without strong character, ideas, or influence

柯林斯英英字典

• If you refer to someone as a nonentity, you mean that they are not special or important in any way.

专业释义

经济学

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