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单词 indiscriminate
释义
indiscriminate
(ɪndɪskrɪmɪnət )
adjective
If you describe an action as indiscriminate, you are critical of it because it does not involve any careful thought or choice. [disapproval]
The indiscriminate use of fertilisers is damaging to the environment.
...the indiscriminate killing of refugees.
Synonyms: random, general, wholesale, mixed  
indiscriminately adverb [usually ADVERB with verb, oft ADVERB adjective]
The men opened fire indiscriminately.
I'm afraid this disease strikes indiscriminately.
Synonyms: at random, wildly, blindly, madly  
Collocations:
indiscriminate destruction
The infliction of such vast and indiscriminate destruction, difficult even to imagine, would by any standards be morally bankrupt.
Times, Sunday Times
Indiscriminate destruction would be an aesthetic and historical disaster, akin to the iconoclasms of the past, and have very little relevance to the ideal of protecting endangered elephants from poachers.
Times, Sunday Times
Only portions escaped the indiscriminate destruction.
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indiscriminate use of
Indiscriminate use of obedience in interpersonal situations can lead to inhumanity.
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He added that indiscriminate use of social networks could 'blight' employment prospects for ever.
Times, Sunday Times
In the end, though, indiscriminate use of pesticides in the postwar era inflicted much greater damage than all the hunting packs combined.
Times, Sunday Times
Repudiation of martyrdom was naturally accompanied by indiscriminate use of things offered to idols.
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Apart from possible habitat destruction, it appears that indiscriminate use of pesticides has a strong effect on this species due to its insectivorous habits.
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indiscriminate violence
The indiscriminate violence affected the young, the old and the recently married.
Times, Sunday Times
Then layer two of the personal stuff: the cruelties of ageing, from which no amount of power, money and indiscriminate violence can protect you.
Times, Sunday Times
But we will not give in to indiscriminate violence.
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The report stated that while protesters had deliberately harassed and provoked police, the police had responded with indiscriminate violence against protesters and bystanders, which he described as a police riot.
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Translations:
Chinese: 任意而为的
Japanese: 無差別の
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