| 单词 | absent-minded professor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasabsent-minded professor Habitually inattentive or forgetful; distracted or preoccupied to the extent of being unaware of one's immediate surroundings. Frequently in absent-minded professor. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > abstraction, absent-mindedness > [adjective] in one's musesa1500 abstract1509 abstracteda1586 absent1631 thoughtful1656 vacant1680 lost in thought1681 withdrawn1713 dreamy1794 dun1797 preoccupied1801 absent-minded1824 pebble-beached1890 1824 T. Carlyle tr. Wilhelm Meister II. xviii. 382 Throughout he had been absent-minded [Ger. zerstreut]; for at the first glance he had felt, not aversion or repugnance, yet estrangement, towards Julia. 1859 F. J. Bumstead tr. M. Ricord Hunter's Treat. Venereal Dis. (rev. ed.) iii. xiv. 269 An able, but probably absent-minded Professor has said that this is impossible, because children are born with their eyes shut! 1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland i. ii. 7 The points..might do serious injury to an inconsiderate or perhaps absentminded traveller suddenly running against them. 1906 J. London Moon-face & Other Stories 167 Pockets is the damnedest things I ever see for makin' a man absent-minded. 1928 M. L. Stockett Baltimore xvi. 268 Sylvester was the absent minded professor, and numerous were the yarns told in illustration of this quality. 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet iv. i. 244 I was absent-minded one night when I was staking them out. Studying about something else and forgot how long the wire was. 1977 R. Rendell Judgement in Stone (1979) iii. 17 He rather fostered the air he had of the absentminded, scatty, preoccupied young intellectual. 2002 N.Y. Times 12 May iv. 3/1 Einstein might have been the master of space-time, but here on earth he was..the absent-minded professor, the kindly sockless wizard. < as lemmas |
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