Word · Frequency #4477
neglect
疏于照顾；忽视
to fail to give enough care or attention to someone or something
- 1.
To fail to care for or attend to something.
未能照顾或照管某事物。
- 2.
To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
忽视而不予注意；不给予关注或尊重；怠慢。
- 3.
To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
因疏忽或粗心而未做或未完成某事。
- 4.
To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.
为了简化计算而忽略,且不显著影响准确性。
疏忽；漏做；冷落；怠慢；忽略；略去；未能照顾或照管某事物。；忽视而不予注意；不给予关注或尊重；怠慢。
In use
Parents should not neglect their children's emotional needs.
He neglected his health for years and now suffers from various diseases.
The manager is neglecting her duties by leaving work early every day.
Verb forms
base neglect · third person neglects · -ing neglecting · past neglected · past participle neglected
规则动词，过去式和过去分词均为neglected。
Connections
Collocations
- neglect one's duties
- 玩忽职守；疏于职责
- He was fired for neglecting his duties.他因玩忽职守而被解雇。
- neglect one's health
- 忽视健康
- She always neglects her health while working long hours.她长时间工作时总是忽视自己的健康。
- neglect a child
- 疏于照顾孩子
- The report criticized parents who neglect their children.这份报告批评了疏于照顾孩子的父母。
- neglect to mention
- 没有提及；漏掉不说
- You neglected to mention that the tickets were free.你没有提到门票是免费的。
- neglect the warning signs
- 忽视警告信号
- Many investors neglected the warning signs before the crash.许多投资者在崩盘前忽视了警告信号。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
neglect 以 neg 开头，像 negative（否定）；对人或事持否定态度、懒得管，就是 neglect（忽视、怠慢）。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：childcare and caregiving discussions、formal notices and instructions、academic or workplace writing 该词属于通用中性词，口语和书面语中都会出现；多用于需要客观说明“疏忽、未加照管”的场合，如报告、说明或劝告。日常随意对话中更常用 ignore 或 not take care of 等说法。
Grammar Note
常指故意或无意忽视
Pronunciation & Spelling
以上单词与 neglect 押韵：重音均在第二音节，且末尾都是 /lɛkt/。注意 dialect /ˈdaɪəlɛkt/ 和 intellect /ˈɪntəlɛkt/ 虽也以 -lect 拼写，但重音不在末尾，与 neglect 不押韵。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 2，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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