汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 心不在焉
心不在焉
absent-minded / preoccupied / inattentive / with one's thoughts wandering
The mind is not here / Refers to lack of concentration
心思不在这里。指思想不集中。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

告诉他切不可心不在焉

Tell him never be absentminded.

“没什么,”罗茜心不在焉地说。

"Nothing," Rosie said in an absent way.

我说错话,表现急躁,或者心不在焉

I said the wrong thing, acted too desperate, or wasn't interested enough.

只是你发现自己恍恍惚惚心不在焉了。

You just find yourself wandering.

除了疲惫不堪,阿曼达看上去还一反常态地心不在焉

Quite aside from her tiredness, Amanda seemed unnaturally abstracted.

伊丽莎白心不在焉地从他的翻领上拈起了一根线。

Elizabeth absent-mindedly picked a thread from his lapel.

“索尔比太太就是这么说的呀。”他心不在焉地嘟囔着。

"That was what the Sowerby woman said," he muttered absent-mindedly.

之后,他步履迟缓、心不在焉地踱向同果园接界的墙门。

This done, he moved with slow step and abstracted air towards a door in the wall bordering the orchard.

我专心致志地把柠檬水瓶的盖子拧开,喝了一大口,然后心不在焉地盯着桌面。

I concentrated on unscrewing the lid of my lemonade. I took a swig, staring at the table without seeing it.

皮彻忙中偷闲对簿记员说,“头儿”似乎一天比一天心不在焉,且越发健忘。

Pitcher seized a moment to remark to the bookkeeper that the "old man" seemed to get more absent-minded and forgetful every day of the world.