half-hearted

adj.

1. 不热心的；不尽力的；冷淡的
   done without enthusiasm or effort
   1. He made a half-hearted attempt to justify himself.
      他没有尽力证明自己有理。

1. ADJ-GRADED 半心半意的;不热心的
   If someone does something in a half-hearted way, they do it without any real effort, interest, or enthusiasm.
   1. Joanna had made one or two half-hearted attempts to befriend Graham's young wife.
      乔安娜曾有一两次敷衍着去帮助格雷厄姆年轻的妻子。
   2. ...a half-hearted apology...
      不诚挚的道歉
   3. In truth, her application was a bit half-hearted.
      事实上，她并没有尽力申请。

1. Joanna had made one or two half-hearted attempts to befriend Graham's young wife.
   乔安娜曾有一两次敷衍着去帮助格雷厄姆年轻的妻子。
2. In truth, her application was a bit half-hearted.
   事实上，她并没有尽力申请。
3. His efforts, the Duke recollected many years later, were distinctly half-hearted.
   据公爵许多年之后的回忆，他当时明显只是敷衍了事。
4. Government action has been half-hearted and uncoordinated.
   政府行动半心半意，组织不力。
5. I am sorry that he should be so half-hearted about the important work.
   我很遗憾，他对这项重要工作竟这样敷衍塞责。
6. It finally surfaced in a half-hearted way as a Tablet OS called MeeGo, before it finally got killed.
   最后，在寿终正寝之前，该项目以平板电脑操作系统MeeGo这一半吊子的形式出现。
7. But this bill is so half-baked that I can only give it half-hearted support and hope that somebody else introduces a bill that makes better sense.
   但是这个提案很不成熟，我只能有所保留地支持它。我希望有人会提出一个更有意义的提案。
8. And, as long as the target specificity and not half-hearted, perseverance and don't give up, will be able to realize our beautiful ideal.
   只要目标专一而不三心二意，持之以恒而不半途而废，就一定能够实现我们美好的理想。
9. To eat snacks, bad habits, regardless of settings, and time, half-hearted effort points, other people think it is also annoying.
   吃零食，坏习惯，不分场合和时间，三心二意分精力，别人觉得也讨厌。
10. Several days more passed before Johnson crawled on deck and went about his work in a half-hearted way.
    又过了几天，约翰生才踱上甲板来，没精打采地做工。
11. You must admit you've never loved her wholeheartedly and half-hearted love is worse than none.
    你必须承认，你从来也没有全心全意地爱过她，而半调子的爱比没有爱更坏。
12. The BoJ's discomfort explains why, on Tuesday December1st, it made what analysts considered to be a half-hearted attempt to reflate the Japanese economy and weaken the yen.
    十二月一日星期二，日本银行不情愿地解释了原因，分析家认为这并不是一心一意的去复舒日本经济和剥弱日元的尝试。
13. He made a rather half-hearted attempt to clear up the rubbish.
    他只是不怎么情愿地在清除垃圾。
14. She made a few half-hearted attempts to join in their conversation.
    在他们谈话时，她出于应酬地插了几次话。
15. In Buffalo or Missoula, a20-inch snowfall might get a half-hearted shrug.
    在布法罗或密苏拉，一场20英尺厚的降雪可能得到一次不感兴趣的耸肩。
16. Indeed, it is far more likely to lose money through half-hearted interventions than through forceful interventions that succeed.
    实际上，半心半意的干预比强有力并且成功的干预更容易招致损失。
17. The combination of a half-hearted financial support programme and dogmatism are reasons why even perfectly rational Greek MPs might end up voting No tomorrow.
    欧盟半心半意的财政支持项目加上教条主义，解释了为何即便是完全理性的议员也有可能在周二投反对票。
18. The welcome was surprisingly warm and the boos, when they eventually came, half-hearted and pantomime.
    不过球迷的欢迎令人惊讶地温暖，而嘘声最终到来时只是半心半意和像默剧一般的。
19. And Nicolas Sarkozy, the most promising candidate of the centre-right, might well drop his half-hearted support for the merger.
    最有希望获胜的中右翼总统候选人尼古拉斯•萨尔科奇对这次合并的原本就暧昧，他也完全有彻底放弃对它的支持。
20. He made a half-hearted attempt.
    他做了一次不积极的尝试。
21. He made a half-hearted attempt to justify himself.
    他没有尽力证明自己有理。
22. But other actions have been half-hearted.
    然而，其它方面的行动迄今不够到位。
23. But those half-hearted measures were no match for corporate profit growth, low interest rates and all that liquidity.
    但这些三心二意的措施，在企业利润增长、低利率和流动性充沛等因素面前败下阵来。
24. When you know the time in their hands always be only so much, does not allow room for any half-hearted, doomed not escape it.
    当你知道自己手中的时间永远只有那么多，容不得有任何敷衍的余地，注定无法逃脱。
25. His apology seemed to me to be half-hearted.
    我觉得他的道歉是不真诚的。
26. Attempts to sign big names like Deco or Franck Ribery have been half-hearted.
    对于要签入大牌球星，比如德科或者里贝里，都是三心二意。
27. Slip-shod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference,& half-hearted work seem the rule;
    工作上拖拖拉拉、漫不经心、三心二意似乎已成常态；
28. Already, the international attitude towards Mr Kim is turning from half-hearted engagement to what is already being called "malign neglect".
    国际社会对于金先生的态度，已经从心不在焉的接触转向人们所称的“袖手旁观”。
29. But the effort is defensive and half-hearted.
    但这种努力是防御性的，而且半心半意。
30. ( of a person) doing things in this way I am sorry that he should be so half-hearted about the important work.
    （指人）做事敷衍塞责的.我很遗憾，他对这项重要工作竟这样敷衍塞责。

adj

1. feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm
   1. a halfhearted effort
   2. gave only lukewarm support to the candidate

   Synonym:    halfheartedtepidlukewarm