harebrained

读音

• [ˈheəbreɪnd]

释义

1. 荒謬的，愚蠢的，不切實際的

   形容想法、計劃等

   “Now why do I get the feeling we're not talking about the harebrained plan you came up with?” “It wasn't harebrained.” “Did it have you going within twenty feet of a whorehouse at night, unchaperoned?” He knew darn well it did.

   2008, Sarah McCarty, Promises Reveal, Penguin, →ISBN:

2. 愚蠢的，愚笨的；輕率的

   形容人

   Her getting a parcel from a hare-brained wench at the coaches in St. John Street; her booty made at the fire, and again at Harwich, all give us excelle

   摩爾·弗蘭德斯

   1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders [摩爾·弗蘭德斯], The Author's Preface: