could care less
动词 v.
英 /kəd kɛə ˈlɛs/
美 /kəd kɛ(ə)ɹ ˈlɛs/|/-ke(ə)ɹ-/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To not care at all; to have no concern or interest; to be apathetic.
— Farmers knew that dead fish made plants go better. They could care less about why that happened. Scientists could not sleep until they found out why.
词源
An alteration of couldn’t care less (which is first attested slightly earlier), either:
* by deliberate irony, or
* by hyponegation, perhaps influenced by forms such as “as if I could care less”, “no one could care less”, and “to know little (or nothing) and care less”.
* by deliberate irony, or
* by hyponegation, perhaps influenced by forms such as “as if I could care less”, “no one could care less”, and “to know little (or nothing) and care less”.
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