单词	neglect
释义	neglect1 verbneglect2 noun neglectne‧glect1 /nɪˈɡlekt/ ●●○ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINneglect1 Origin: 1500-1600 Latin past participle of neglegere, negligere, from neg- ‘not’ + legere ‘to gather’ Verb Table VERB TABLE neglect Simple Form Present I, you, we, they neglect he, she, it neglects Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they neglected Present perfect I, you, we, they have neglected he, she, it has neglected Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had neglected Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will neglect Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have neglected Continuous Form Present I am neglecting he, she, it is neglecting you, we, they are neglecting Past I, he, she, it was neglecting you, we, they were neglecting Present perfect I, you, we, they have been neglecting he, she, it has been neglecting Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been neglecting Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be neglecting Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been neglecting Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Each year 700,000 children are abused or neglected. Four security guards were accused of neglecting their duties. He was neglected by his parents when he was very young. My career was all-important, and my family got neglected. Some teachers devote too much time to helping their slower students and neglect the brighter ones. Soon, Barker was neglecting the farm and spending most of his time in the casino. Staff at the hostel were accused of neglecting and abusing children in their care. The President had been criticized for neglecting domestic issues. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Antiracists have pointed out that in privileging prejudice and attitudes the multiculturalists have neglected racism as embedded in structures and institutions. Most of its partisans had focused mainly on military actions, neglecting political efforts necessary to mobilize mass support. Some anglers use three rods, but I have found that at least one of these tends to be neglected. Students today can not so easily neglect financial worries as their predecessors twenty years before. This is only true in deep space when the gravitational force can be neglected. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto not look after someone properly► neglect to not look after someone properly, especially a child, although it is your responsibility to look after them: · He was neglected by his parents when he was very young.· Staff at the hostel were accused of neglecting and abusing children in their care.· Some teachers devote too much time to helping their slower students and neglect the brighter ones. to not do something that you should do► not do · I haven't done my taxes yet and they're due next week.· The electrician came round yesterday, but he didn't do all the jobs I asked him to do.· She was afraid that if she didn't do what her boss told her she would be fired. ► do nothing/not do anything to not try to help someone or prevent a bad situation, even though you know it is happening: · How could neighbors listen to her scream and do nothing?do nothing/not do anything about: · We told the police months ago, but they still haven't done anything about it.do nothing/not do anything to do something: · No one did anything to stop the purse snatcher. ► take no action formal to do nothing, especially when this is a deliberate decision: · If you have already paid the amount shown on this bill, you need take no further action.take no action to do something: · Local police took no action to protect the family from the attacks. ► fail to do something formal to not do something that you should do, especially when this has serious results: · The driver of the car failed to stop in time, and the boy was killed.· If you fail to provide all the information, we will be unable to process your application. ► neglect to do something to not do something because you do not pay enough attention or forget, especially when this could have serious results: · Marie decided not to move, but she neglected to inform the rental agency.· The public are demanding to know why the government neglected to warn them of the oil shortages. ► omit to do something formal to not do something, either because you forget to do it or because you deliberately choose not to do it: · Mrs Hobbs told me about the meeting but she omitted to tell me where it was.· Starr's account omits to mention that it was his own actions that caused the fire. ► stand by/sit by to not do anything to stop something bad from happening, when you should do something to show that you care about the situation: · Why did people just stand by while she was attacked?· We can't afford to just sit by and watch more of our local industry shut down. ► just stand there/just sit there spoken to not even move or start to do something when there is an urgent situation: · Don't just stand there - help me catch the cat!· When the fire alarm went off she just sat there as if she hadn't heard a thing. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► neglect/shirk your duties (=not do your job properly)· No soldier can be allowed to neglect his duties. ► neglect of duty (=failing to do your job properly)· Six police officers were fired for neglect of duty. ► fail/neglect/omit to mention something (=deliberately not mention something)· I omitted to mention that I had not been to university. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► largely · Criminologists, too, have largely neglected the prisons.· If nothing else, the arena is expected to spawn revitalization of a largely neglected area of downtown.· Such basic work, oddly enough, has been largely neglected.· Food production, though largely neglected by the government in the early nineteenth century, remained very important.· This aspect of London speech has also been largely neglected by researchers.· But information responsibility to oneself is still largely neglected. ► often · The second part of step two is often neglected by teachers, mainly because it is difficult to obtain accurate information.· Several of them, including Jeffries, often neglected to hand in grades at the end of the term.· Educational practice in this country has acknowledged the cognitive side of learning but has often neglected the affective side.· Freud later developed the technique of free association, a triumph which is often neglected in the discussion of his controversial theories.· Yet, because policymakers often neglect demographics, those who watch them and exploit them can reap great rewards.· Woman-centred feminism often neglects theory in favour of documenting feminine experience.· It begins by looking at the often neglected memorial monument of the civic square and the public place.· Yet in the race to complete as many transactions as possible, the fundamentals were often neglected, with resultant problems later. NOUN► aspect · Bukharin was not one of those who neglected the material aspects of the reproduction schemata.· These neglected aspects weaken attempts to distribute land due to the very low levels of profit from the minifundia.· This neglected aspect of the electronic-publishing debate divides into two quite separate issues.· Furthermore, they have concentrated their attention largely upon economic growth while neglecting other aspects of development. ► child · It has to take powers to intervene in family life and take into care children who are being neglected or badly treated.· Outside of behaviors falling under the child abuse and neglect laws, there were virtually none.· Laws, however much they may help, do not prevent child abuse and neglect from occurring each year.· Child-rearing is considered a private matter, and there is no intervention unless a child is abused or neglected. ► duty · However, unconsciously I must have been riddled with remorse for so neglecting my duties.· He has neglected his duties writing that damned family history and leaving Tim Skerritt to manage the estate.· As he got nearer to No. 22 he decided that Mrs Brocklebank had been neglecting her duties here as well.· Will the doctor be neglecting his duty if he respect this patient's expression of will?· Other companies are happy to invest, with the proviso that the government does not neglect its duty.· Ned would never neglect a duty, however tiresome, never put his own comfort first.· You women are neglecting your duty. ► fact · If this is the argument it neglects the fact that statutory bodies are given very specific powers.· What with the shower incident and the strain of management I neglected to recall the fact I could not drive.· That is understandable, but it neglects the fact that press freedom is an issue for more than just the press.· Any analysis of human behavior which neglected these facts would be defective indeed.· This neglects the fact that there may be more efficient and effective ways of achieving system objectives which remain unconsidered. ► family · In our family the father was some one who neglected his family.· C., to beg forgiveness for the way black men had mistreated their women and neglected their families.· I had neglected my friends, family, job, social life, virtually everything to do with living a normal life.· Not only did the new managers feel they neglected their family lives, they ignored their need for leisure and relaxation.· She was still reeling from the attention that had come with the Pulitzer and had neglected her family. ► issue · For the work so far has limited itself to scientific and technical problems, neglecting political and legal issues.· Congress has accused certain agencies of neglecting the issue. ► study · Party elders were concerned that the younger generation of intellectuals took no interest in Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought and were neglecting their political studies.· Here Rolfe neglected his religious studies and developed his interests in poetry, painting, and photography.· There is a danger that we neglect a profound study of a main instrument, and end up as mediocrities. ► work · She'd been neglecting her work for the past day and a half.· There were no major cases on hand and he had no excuse for neglecting the routine administrative work.· It was striking that the historical, social and policy implications of language teaching were the areas most neglected in methods work.· So immersed are many black kids in their sport or sports, they sometimes neglect their academic work.· The time for that will come, and must come, for tales have been much neglected in favour of other work and scholarship. VERB► abuse · In the midst of our comfort there are those in our own city who will be forgotten abused or neglected.· Children abused or seriously neglected in childhood often exhibit as adults a sociopathic inability to empathize with other people.· A thousand or more children are being abused or neglected every week - and three or four die every week.· Outside of behaviors falling under the child abuse and neglect laws, there were virtually none.· Child-rearing is considered a private matter, and there is no intervention unless a child is abused or neglected. ► afford · Such a possession, once recognised as it now is, no university can afford to neglect.· Nowadays we literally can not afford to neglect the investment, the hard financial investment, stored in our built environment. ► feel · Recovery from illness is sometimes avoided by older people, particularly when they feel lonely and neglected.· But some hospitals are short-staffed, and their patients complain of feeling neglected.· She was feeling vulnerable and neglected, he was fun and rich and she clearly enjoyed his company.· Not only did the new managers feel they neglected their family lives, they ignored their need for leisure and relaxation.· I feel I've neglected her.· He felt his neglect bitterly, but he was not, essentially, an envious man. ► tend · In doing so it has often tended to neglect crucial distinctions between the nature of language and the nature of images.· Men tend to neglect children of their first marriages in favor of the children of their current unions.· Some anglers use three rods, but I have found that at least one of these tends to be neglected.· Let us be clear about the facts of the election that they tend to neglect.· But this approach tends to neglect the monetary effects of budgetary decisions.· Egalitarian feminist psychology tends to neglect gender issues that do not relate to traditional psychological interest. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► neglect to do something Marie decided not to move after all, but she neglected to inform the rental agency. Planners apparently neglected to consider future water and electricity requirements. The public are demanding to know why the government neglected to warn them of the oil shortages. Go to Lutece in in expert drag; neglect to shave. He neglects to notify you of a change of address. I frequently find out from some one else that my husband has lied or has neglected to tell me about something. Or Krauss's man neglected to follow one. Several of them, including Jeffries, often neglected to hand in grades at the end of the term. Still, our most severe misjudgments were not steps we had taken but steps we had neglected to take. Under the terms of the code, lenders refuse to deal with brokers who have neglected to sign up. Your adviser neglected to check you were happy with the risks of stock market investment. 1to fail to look after someone or something properly:  She smoked and drank, neglected the children, and left the clothes unmended. a neglected garden The building has been badly neglected.2to pay too little attention to something:  Many of these ideas have been neglected by modern historians. The police officer was accused of neglecting his duty (=not doing everything he should).3 neglect to do something formal to not do something:  You neglected to mention that they had a second album released during 1991. neglect1 verbneglect2 noun neglectneglect2 ●●○ noun [uncountable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Cases of child abuse and neglect seem to be increasing in number. He alleges that the orphanages have allowed children to die from medical neglect. increases in homelessness, child abuse and neglect Lieutenant Bradley was demoted to sergeant for neglect of duty. The inner cities are in a state of neglect. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS All these signs, of course, are only indicators that should alert reasonable educators to the possibility of abuse or neglect. And by the neglect of the long hot summer. Birds can fly away, but buildings stay to suffer the consequences of environmental neglect. Child abuse and neglect continue despite early, thoughtful, and often costly intervention. Many people are deeply concerned about the neglect of crofting land. She had suffered, she said, from his neglect. That was a scandalous neglect of the interests of those customers and it will not be repeated under this Government. This neglect becomes more serious as services becomes more important in the economy. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► years/decades/centuries etc of neglect  After years of neglect, the roads were full of potholes. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► neglect/shirk your duties (=not do your job properly)· No soldier can be allowed to neglect his duties. ► neglect of duty (=failing to do your job properly)· Six police officers were fired for neglect of duty. ► fail/neglect/omit to mention something (=deliberately not mention something)· I omitted to mention that I had not been to university. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► benign · Indeed, after years of benign neglect, the job of booking acts for Reading became every promoter's dream.· Yet at the same time he offers the black underclass, and its more urgent needs, little more than benign neglect.· Where interiors have survived, it has been through benign neglect.· Given the performance of most bond funds the past three years, perhaps some benign neglect was in order.· A decade of benign neglect of energy policies has been abruptly spotlighted in the blockaded streets of London, Brussels and Paris.· Leadership was a subject that had suffered benign neglect among the managers.· Haass is for the third option. Benign neglect will not be benign, he says.· A policy worthy of the suspicion of benign neglect. ► physical · As far as physical abuse and neglect is concerned, a variety of factors may put a family at risk.· As a result they suffer from poverty, physical hardship, neglect, sickness and disability, loneliness, humiliation and fear.· Whole generations of children will otherwise be in danger of emotional and physical neglect. ► relative · The Party's obvious nervousness about railway and other workers and relative neglect of the rural hinterland needs a little more explanation. VERB► lead · The need to feed the addiction takes priority over all other activities, leading to personal neglect, anti-social behaviour and crime. ► suffer · If the Conservative Party generally has suffered from neglect, the Edwardian Conservatives have suffered most.· Leadership was a subject that had suffered benign neglect among the managers.· Even heat if those radiators which had not been stolen had not suffered by their neglect.· By comparison, companies in the 20-50 jobs bracket suffer from neglect, they say. 1failure to look after something or someone, or the condition of not being looked afterneglect of Tenants are complaining about the landlord’s neglect of the property.years/decades/centuries etc of neglect After years of neglect, the roads were full of potholes. The whole district had an air of abandonment and neglect.2failure to pay proper attention to somethingneglect of Five officers were court-martialled for cowardice or neglect of duty.
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