| 词源 |
feckless. (1) Ineffective, feeble, futile, incompetent. (2) Care- less, irresponsible, lazy. From the Scots feck, effect (an altera- tion of effect + less). In Our Language (1966) Simeon Potter says that Thomas Carlyle “brought such Scottish words into En- glish as feckless, lilt (with the meaning of ‘cadence’) and out- come, and made them current.” Many of Carlyle’s coinages be- came part of the language. |