释义 |
light-minded, a. Having a light or trifling mind; frivolous. Hence light-ˈmindedness.
1611Bible Eccl. xix. 4 He that is hasty to giue credit is light minded. 1661G. Rust Origen in Phenix (1721) I. 24 Tossed about like feathers with light-mindedness and admiration of trifles. 1833J. H. Newman Arians v. ii. (1876) 387 The light-minded multitude clamorously required it. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. ix. 120 Among the light-minded men and women who make up society. 1884H. Gersoni tr. Turgenieff's Diary Superfluous Man 26 Mar. 97 The sad consequences of light-mindedness. |