indiscriminately

/ˌɪndɪˈskrɪmɪnətli/ (bre, ipa) · /ˌɪndɪˈskrɪmɪnətli/ (ame, ipa)

indiscriminately — 副詞

1. by attacking, taking, or affecting everything or everyone in a group rather than

1.副詞C1
釋義

不分對象地

不加區別、波及無辜地

by attacking, taking, or affecting everything or everyone in a group rather than picking out specific targets, often causing harm to people who were not the intended ones.

例句

The soldiers fired indiscriminately into the crowded market in Aleppo.

士兵對阿勒坡擁擠的市集不分對象地開槍掃射。

verb + indiscriminately, often in violent or military contexts

Ayesha warned that cutting school budgets indiscriminately would hurt the weakest students most.

Ayesha 警告，不分對象地刪減學校預算，傷害最大的會是最弱勢的學生。

with abstract subjects: policies or actions applied without sorting

同義詞
  • randomly

    neutral about consequences; 'indiscriminately' implies harm or carelessness

  • wholesale

    stresses scale; common with 'condemn / reject / dismiss wholesale'

  • haphazardly

    stresses lack of plan; less tied to violence than 'indiscriminately'

  • across the board

    stresses 'applied to everyone equally', often in policy or pay contexts

反義詞

文法句型

verb + indiscriminately

用法筆記

Strongly negative in tone. Subject is usually a weapon, policy, illness, natural force, or person carrying out a sweeping action; object or target is typically people or things that include innocent or unwanted cases. Distinguish from 'randomly', which is neutral about consequences.

常見錯誤

❌I chose a book indiscriminately from the shelf.
✅I chose a book at random from the shelf.
💡'indiscriminately' implies harm or carelessness with serious results; for a neutral random pick, use 'at random' or 'randomly'.