desultory

adj.

1. 漫无目的的；无条理的；随意的
   going from one thing to another, without a definite plan and without enthusiasm
   1. I wandered about in a desultory fashion.
      我漫无目的地四处游荡。
   2. a desultory conversation
      漫无边际的谈话

1. ADJ-GRADED 杂乱的;散漫的;无条理的;漫不经心的
   Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
   1. The constables made a desultory attempt to keep them away from the barn.
      警察漫不经心地拦着不让他们靠近谷仓。

1. The constables made a desultory attempt to keep them away from the barn.
   警察漫不经心地拦着不让他们靠近谷仓。
2. That he was a desultory tentative student of something and everything might only have been predicted of him.
   从他身上大概可以猜测出，他是一个对什么事情都想广泛学习的学生。
3. He spent years and years in desultory studies, undertakings, and meditations; he began to evince considerable indifference to social forms and observances.
   多少年来，他进行了许多漫无边际的研究，尝试过多次杂乱无章的计划，进行过无数毫无系统的思考；开始对社会习俗和礼仪明显表现出满不在乎的态度。
4. Do not let the discussion fragment into a desultory conversation with no clear direction.
   不要让讨论变得支离破碎，成为没有明确方向的漫谈。
5. Addressing these issues in a desultory way, with a fragmented array of decision-making bodies with overlapping responsibilities is not the best way to proceed.
   利用一系列职责重叠的散乱的决策机构，以一种无序的方式来解决这些问题，并非最好的进展方式。
6. Judith now entered into a desultory discourse with deerslayer.
   尤蒂丝开始和打鹿将东拉西扯地闲聊起来。
7. The desultory discussion merely reaffirmed old perplexities.
   这次讨论完全不着边际，仅仅重申了过去那些纠缠不清的老问题。
8. The firing was desultory.
   这种射击是零零碎碎的。
9. Our planning proceeded in a desultory fashion.
   我们的计划工作是以一种杂乱无章的方式进行的。
10. We played a desultory game of cards.
    我们漫不经心地玩了一局牌。
11. Besides school there was Sunday school, in a desultory way.
    除了学校外，偶尔还有星期日学校。
12. Certainly, the speed of the downturn in China has taken the optimists by surprise, as an economy that was growing 13 per cent in 2007 slowed to a desultory 6.8 per cent in the fourth quarter.
    当然，中国经济下滑的速度已经令乐观派感到惊讶：这个2007年增长率达13%的经济体去年第四季度的增长率突然放缓为6.8%。
13. The voice of wayside pansies, that do not attract the careless glance, murmurs in these desultory lines.
    幽径边，紫罗兰的情愫难以招徕那无心的一瞥，只得吟诵着零乱的诗句喃喃责怨。
14. His studies are very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out-of-the-way knowledge which would astonish his professors.
    他所研究的东西非常杂乱，不成系统，并且也很离破；但是他却积累了不少稀破古怪的知识，足以使他的教授都感到惊讶。
15. Wilson and Gallagher play a desultory game of poker.
    威尔逊和加拉格尔心不在焉地打着扑克。
16. He tactfully stayed out of all but the most desultory conversations with the members.
    他机灵地避免和会员进行任何谈话，除非随便闲聊几问。
17. He broke into a desultory chat with me over his business affairs.
    他突然开始和我漫无边际地谈起他的生意来了。
18. There were some desultory attempts to defend him.
    曾经有人漫不经心地试图替他辩护。
19. She read much of a desultory sort of literature and as a modern linguist had really made great proficiency.
    她阅读了不少乱七八糟的作品，作为一个现代语言学家，她当真是非常熟练的。好乱呀！乱七八糟！
20. His conduct during these first weeks had been desultory beyond description.
    在这两三个礼拜之内，他的行动可以说是散漫得没法形容。
21. They made a few desultory comments, then lapsed into awkward silence.
    他们随便说了几句话之后，就尴尬无语了。
22. Carrie followed up this desultory conversation with occasional interruptions from the vances.
    嘉莉继续这样随便地谈着，万斯夫妇偶尔也插上几句。
23. The careful study of a few books is better than the desultory reading of many.
    精心研究几部书胜过随意地读许多书。
24. As a result, Americans have not become so familiar with different cultures and other ways of doing things as is often the case in other countries. She read much of a desultory sort of literature and as a modern linguist had really made great proficiency.
    结果，美国人对于其他国家的文化和不同的工作方式，都不大熟悉；这在其他一些国家也是常见的。她阅读了不少乱七八糟的作品，作为一个现代语言学家，她当真是非常熟练的。
25. To classify desultory vocabulary in order to further study and memorize will help learners to improve their memory effects.
    将杂乱无章的日语词汇分别归类，加以学习、记忆，可以大大提高记忆效率。
26. We are talking, in a desultory kind of way.
    我俩有一搭没一搭地说着话。
27. Network's dynamics, distribution, pluralism and desultory situation make it more and more difficult to search and maintain information, thus it becomes more and more important to research into semantic research.
    同时网络信息资源的动态性、分布性、多元性和无序性等特点使信息的查找和检索变得越来越困难，因此关于语义化的研究就变得越来越为重要。
28. This paper discusses the desultory study of contemporary art about folk custom image.
    本文论述了当代艺术对民俗形象的涉猎。
29. The facies has large depositional thickness, showing colina shape, desultory interior reflections and extension along major structural alignment on seismic section.
    该相沉积厚度相对较大，在地震剖面上反映为丘状隆起，内部反射杂乱，呈乱岗状反射，多沿主要构造线延伸。
30. A Desultory Talk about Current Coins of Each Country in the World
    世界各国流通硬币漫谈

adj

1. marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose
   1. desultory thoughts
   2. the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties