合成形容詞 “half-baked” 的本意是 “半熟的,沒烤熟的”。人們用這個和烘焙有關的詞語來比喻計劃、想法、理論等 “不完善、不成熟” 或 “考慮得不周全”。注意,“half-baked” 多用來表示反對或不贊成一個不切實際的想法。
I think you need to think more deeply about your business plans. You just have a half-baked idea at present.
我認為你需要更深入地考慮你的商業(yè)計劃。你現在只是有一個不成熟的想法。
The school has come up with a half-baked scheme to have students mark their own homework.
這所學校想出了一個草率的方案——讓學生們自己批改作業(yè)。
I still think my idea is half-baked so I’m going to take a bit more time to think it through before I pitch it to the boss.
我覺得我的想法還是不太成熟,所以我要花點時間仔細想想,再向上司提出這個想法。