incompetent
adjective /ɪnˈkɒmpɪtənt/
/ɪnˈkɑːmpɪtənt/
- not having the skill or ability to do your job or a task as it should be done
无能力的;不胜任的;不称职的 - an incompetent teacher
不称职的教师 - his incompetent handling of the affair
他在处理这件事上的无能表现 - The prime minister was attacked as incompetent to lead.
首相被抨击缺乏领导能力。
- I know my boss considers me incompetent.
我知道老板认为我无能。 - a grossly incompetent piece of reporting
毫无水平的报道 - She worked for years under an incompetent manager.
她在一名不称职的经理手下工作了多年。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
- be
- consider somebody/something
- …
- criminally
- grossly
- hopelessly
- …
- at
词源late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘not legally competent’): from French, or from late Latin incompetent-, from in- ‘not’ + Latin competent- ‘being fit or proper’, from the verb competere in its earlier sense ‘be fit or proper’, from com- ‘together’ + petere ‘aim at, seek’. - an incompetent teacher