harebrained
harebrained 英 ['heə'breɪnd] 美 ['her'breɪnd]
adj. 轻率的；粗心的
- Something that's harebrained is reckless or foolish. Sometimes, harebrained ideas work out just fine — several people have survived trips over Niagara Falls in a barrel, for example.
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- adj. 轻率的；粗心的
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1. While hairbrained continues to be used, it should be avoided in favor of harebrained which has been established as the correct spelling.
虽然hairbrained还在继续使用，但是，既然harebrained是最初的正确拼法，我们就应该避免这种混淆使用的情况。
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2. The first use of harebrained dates to 1548.
Harebrained的用法最初见于1548年。
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3. I suspect that one day they will say that the EU's unforgivable crime was to take their idealism and hope and throw them away for the sake of a harebrained currency experiment.
我怀疑有一天他们会说，欧盟犯下了不可饶恕的罪行：先是利用他们的希望和理想，然后又把它们弃置一旁，而这一切只是为了一个愚蠢的货币试验。
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