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apathy

noun
🔊/ˈæpəθi/
🔊/ˈæpəθi/
 [uncountable]
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  1. the feeling of not being interested in or enthusiastic about something, or things in general冷漠；淡漠
    • There is widespread apathy among the electorate.选民普遍态度冷淡。🔊🔊
    • public/political/student apathy公共/政治/学生冷漠
    Extra Examples
    • Such attitudes can only lead to apathy.这样的态度只能导致冷漠。
    • a general apathy towards politics对于政治普遍的冷淡
    Topics Politicsc2, Feelingsc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • general
    • widespread
    • political
    • …
    verb + apathy
    • suffer from
    • fall into
    • sink into
    • …
    preposition
    • apathy  among
    • apathy  towards/​toward
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    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French apathie, via Latin from Greek apatheia, from apathēs ‘without feeling’, from a- ‘without’ + pathos ‘suffering’.