| 单词 | inaptitude |
| 例句 | I visit Marconi less often now, but more from inaptitude than fear. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Shark? 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z In a television interview Friday, Erdogan accused leaders of Iraq’s autonomous region of “serious political inaptitude” for going ahead with plans to hold the vote on Sept. 25. Turkey mulls response to Kurdish independence vote 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z All the characters in the book go mad, and the author's utter inaptitude for literature turns what might have been passable third-rate melodrama into a farce. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z We cannot add one moment to its eternity, nor by our inaptitude diminish the proper glory of our art. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z So I floundered and fumbled and failed, through long years for the mere want of the small dose of cynical courage required for recognising frankly my congenital inaptitude. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z To some, from a natural inaptitude, and to others, from a perverse disinclination, it may never come. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Experience has demonstrated to us our inaptitude as financiers. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z He assures us that his tutor did not complain of any inaptitude on the pupil’s part, and that the pupil was as happily unconscious of any on his own; but here he broke off. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z His father was a bookseller; held, too, some small magistracy; was eminently respectable; loved books as well as sold them, and had a corresponding inaptitude for business. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z But an analogy more enlightening for showing the 41 inaptitude of the child for direct study of the laws of conduct is found in the case of speech. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z But, in truth, considerable familiarity with these pursuits may easily co-exist with a natural inaptitude for their successful cultivation, which shall prove simply fatal. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z He was generally esteemed on account of his learning, but his family suffered from his inaptitude for business, which was for us a question of life. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z It likewise plainly follows, from the inaptitude of this argument to show that God is omnipresent, that thereby we can not prove infinity of power to belong to him. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z I have already told you so, and my own inaptitude for military duty has nothing to do or to say in the question. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z If a critical ear might cavil at the incompleteness or inaptitude of his similes, to the warm imagination and excited fancy of the Irish peasant they had no such blemishes. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z He has convicted himself of a natural infirmity of judgment,—has given proof that he labours under a peculiar Critical inaptitude for this department of enquiry,—which renders his decrees nugatory, and his opinions worthless. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z The assertion that Mr. Tennyson was born with an inaptitude for musical verse, though I conceive it to be very wide of the mark, I can at least understand. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z The more Alma proclaimed her enthusiasm for business, the more patent her utterly delightful inaptitude for it became. Nancy of Paradise Cottage The English officers were loud in condemning Austrian slowness—the inaptitude they exhibited to profit by a success, and the over-caution which made them, even in victory, so careful of their own safety. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune I see that he cannot conceal his joy at the inaptitude of my avowal. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z The spectacle of an able and estimable man exhibiting such singular inaptitude for a province of study which, beyond all others, demands a clear head and a calm, dispassionate judgment,—creates distress. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z He seems to have an organic inaptitude for combination. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 Whether from personal cowardice, from inaptitude for command, or from political calculation, Orleans failed in his duty, and his failure determined the action. Poitiers If his hand leave its proper course, whether of set purpose or through inaptitude, his work must suffer. The Technique of Fiction Writing You are a French officer, sir," said he, "and I rely upon your honor that, whether from the ignorance or inaptitude of that gentleman, no blame may attach itself to me in this business. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life I call this part of your pamphlet “strange,” because it displays such singular inaptitude to appreciate the force of Evidence. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z I am not, of course, dealing with exceptional cases of natural inaptitude. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. Did Jones discern a similar inaptitude for bank service and hint things for the teller's benefit? A Canadian Bankclerk But the Roman had a real inaptitude for the speculative: to him nothing was real that was not practical. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 For absurdity and inaptitude, it stands, and must forever stand, without a parallel. Thoughts on African Colonization This arises partly from the inaptitude of a still imperfect brain; but in proportion as the latter advances toward its mature state, the mental faculties also become vigorous and active.” A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Thus his inaptitude in current speech was construed by them into a delicate flattery. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Surely, but for the French inaptitude to colonisation, this part of Algeria, at least, might be turned to good account. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. They had fallen, not under the pressure of any new or unforeseen event, but by the evils connected with their personal situation, and their inaptitude for the parts they had undertaken to play. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 Which seems to have been owing to the want of irritability, or the inaptitude to action, of some classes of fibres which compose the retina. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life The Empress was already foreboding her fate; there was the stiffness of inaptitude about everything, even the amusement, and the languid weariness of the ladies was an unforgiven imperial sin. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) I mean a strenuous and sincere belief in convention, combined with a huge natural inaptitude for observing it. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study She was a long-limbed, fair-haired girl, with a touch of wit from some 127 remote ancestor who must have had O’ tacked to his name, and a great inaptitude toward books. Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall Her first grief with him arose, strange as it may seem, from his inaptitude for learning—as a child he disdained A B C, and indulged himself with his own thoughts. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Female virtue is only a proof of dulness or decay, a vulgar formality of mind, or an unaccountable inaptitude to adopt the customs of polished society. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 The English officers were loud in condemning Austrian slowness; the inaptitude they exhibited to profit by a success, and the over-caution which made them, even in victory, so careful of their own safety. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 A man may be loyal at heart, but he resents the inaptitude of a wife who fails to keep the mental pace. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Whatever may have been Torpedo’s characteristics in days gone by, at this advanced period in his history he possessed none so striking as a stoical inaptitude for being moved. At Fault This is the opposite extreme, and is indicative of delicateness, bad, flabby flesh, and, possibly, of inaptitude to retain the fat. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Why this inaptitude on the part of many, and this extraordinary facility on the part of others, in the memorizing faculty, is a phenomenon which may be noted down, but not solved. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries The inaptitude of English for the purposes of speech is even more conspicuous, and is again well illustrated in our oratory. The Task of Social Hygiene There's another factor—call it an inaptitude factor. Breaking Point The word had barely left his lips when it rose half its length out of the water, and then fell, in melancholy inaptitude for further mischief, flat upon the sea. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole Millicent was quick and precise; she gave her instructions almost sharply, and made little allowance for Jenny’s ignorance and inaptitude. The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender Such cleanness, such lack of self, such self-poise and firmness, such singleness of love and devotion, such inaptitude for anything not noble, such tense heroic purposes, such stalwart intention to make himself a man! A Hero and Some Other Folks But, on the other hypothesis, of space being objective, it is impossible to guess whence we are to draw our proof of the alleged inaptitude in two straight lines for enclosing a space. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Troublesome as these nuisances are, there is such an inaptitude to new plans, that they might go on for ever, if an interference should not come in from some external quarter. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 To some, a most striking incidental proof of his inaptitude for the ordinary layman's life, is found in the subjoined extract from the memoranda. Life of Father Hecker He was ultimately sent to college, his parents inferring that he would make a success of the study of books, because he had always shown a singular inaptitude for anything else. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses Our young student looked offended, and muttered something about the inaptitude of the English for a deep theosophy and philosophy. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge, and to execute it. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 He represents Mr. Hawthorne as not silent only by shyness, but by nature and inaptitude. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II I merely described my own state of inaptitude to listen to it at that time, and in those circumstances. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals From these maladies also brute animals are much more exempt than mankind, owing to their greater inaptitude to voluntary exertion, as mentioned in Sect. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Apart from his moral inaptitude for the monumental achievements of authorship, Diderot was endowed with the gifts of the talker rather than with those of the writer. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Mozart sets comic words to the mass-music of a friend, in order to mark his sense of its inaptitude for religious sentiment. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Previous to the introduction of quadrilles and country dances or contredanses, the inaptitude of nine-tenths of mankind for dancing was still more eminently demonstrated in the murders of the minuet. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 More especially it may now be declared that Professor Teufelsdroeckh’s acquirements, patience of research, philosophic, and even poetic vigor, are here made indisputably manifest; and unhappily no less his prolixity and tortuosity and manifold inaptitude…. Essays Æsthetical Eighty demerits more to go," muttered Dave, "and the superintendent will recommend to the Secretary of the Navy that I be dropped for general inaptitude. Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis The only result of these experiments was the demonstration of Heine's total inaptitude for commercial pursuits. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes How else can I explain the inaptitude for the divine, the unwillingness to have the veil quite lifted from my heart, to display it even to my own eyes? A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England He knew his own inaptitude for the higher kind of office work, and he had expected his dismissal by Mr. Chadwick long before it came. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories A certain innate scepticism, I think, explains it and a certain inaptitude for sympathetic assimilation. Tono Bungay Such inaptitude for religious faith may in some cases be intellectual in its origin. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature He had his fine sense of the conviction Mrs. Pocock would take occasion to reaffirm—a conviction bearing, as he had from the first deeply divined it to bear, on Mr. Strether's essential inaptitude. The Ambassadors Capable, besides, of high flights of idealism, which result in epics, but rarely in actions, owing to the Slavonic inaptitude for sustained and organised effort. The Forged Coupon The expectation of bringing the people again to endure prolonged metaphysical discriminations, spun out of commonplace minds, cobwebs to cloak their own nakedness and universal inaptitude, if indulged, is absurdly indulged. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 For we may appeal to those pious and benevolent persons who have made the most numerous trials, for testimony to the inaptitude of uneducated people to receive that kind of instruction. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance Nor did he relish the excessive simplicity of La Fontaine, or deem that his talent was a sufficient compensation for his slovenly manners and inaptitude for court life. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Mrs. Barfield was puzzled by her pupil's slowness; she ascribed it to her own inaptitude to teach and the little time for lessons. Esther Waters Yet the malice truly lies in the inaptitude and inexperience of men. Steam, Steel and Electricity So recognized is this indifference to Nature and inaptitude for rural life in France, that, when we desire to express the opposite of natural tastes, we habitually use the word "Frenchified." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Savages: countries of. character of. state of, in the torrid and temperate zones. mental inaptitude of. difference of colour in. encampment of. festivals of. food of. origin of. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 This blear-eyed, taciturn, timid man, whose knowledge of many things is manifestly imperfect, whose inaptitude for many things is apparent, can HE be the creator of such glorious works? The Principles of Success in Literature It will strive—mine at least will—'spite of its inaptitude, to thrid the maze; like an unskilled eye painfully poring upon hieroglyphics. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia He had a natural inaptitude to learning the language, and labored at it for five years with scarcely a sign of progress. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century The disadvantages are an inaptitude for scholarly things, a want of the steadiness and clearness of the tone of letters, the need of a great deal of experimenting, a certain thickness and indistinctness of accent. Our Friend John Burroughs Chaymas: missions of the. nation of. physiognomy of. habits of. physical conformation of. mental inaptitude of. language of. colour of. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 In proportion as man is remote from cultivation, the greater is his mental inaptitude. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 At the age of eleven he was sent to a notary's office, whence he was dismissed for dullness and inaptitude. The Eve of the French Revolution Obesity produces a distaste for dancing, walking, riding, and an inaptitude for those amusements which require skill or agility. The Physiology of Taste There was an inaptitude in her niece to comprehend the advantages of the situations, which made some direct explanation absolutely necessary. He Knew He Was Right Mr. Brumby's paragon is shocked at the other's inaptitude for examination, but is at the same time tortured by envy of he knows not what. The American Senator I should be obliged to explain various things to make you understand my extrinsic inaptitude, and consequently my obligatory abstention on some points which touch me closely. Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End In the first place you have to repair the injury done by my inaptitude for society. The Duke's Children The son, moreover, had inherited from his father his profound inaptitude for the practical business of life, and was equally incapable of managing his interests and the economics of the house. Fabre, Poet of Science We find a class of persons who labour under an obvious natural inaptitude for whatever they aspire to. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners Not in their materials, alas! nor in their ambitions, but in something more profound, in her own inaptitude, and above all, in her mother's temperament. Night and Day A brown sunburnt gentleman, who appears in some inaptitude for sleep to be wandering abroad rather than counting the hours on a restless pillow, strolls hitherward at this quiet time. Bleak House |
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