2PRIVATE/NON-GOVERNMENTa place or situation that is impersonal does not make people feel that they are important 〔地方或情况〕没有人情味的;冷淡的
I hate staying in hotels; they’re so impersonal.
我不喜欢住酒店,那里缺乏人情味。
a formal and impersonal style of management
一种刻板的、缺乏人情味的管理风格
3.technicalSLG in grammar, an impersonal sentence or verb is one where the subject is represented by ‘it’ or ‘there’, as in the sentence ‘It rained all day’ 〔语法中〕非人称的,无人称的〔指句子或动词的主语是it或there,如 It rained all day〕
—impersonallyadverbadv
Examples from the Corpus
impersonal• Just signing your name on a Christmas card seems too impersonal.• The Church has been criticized for being too big and impersonal.• They just handed over the keys and walked out - it was all so impersonal.• Chid's letters are absolutely impersonal.• He was methodical, almost impersonal.• I had hoped that the coolimpersonal air in the Saltine MotelRestaurant would bring me to my senses.• The house felt as if it had been converted to institutional use, someplace impersonal and chill.• The whole thing was conducted on an impersonal level.• I had no desire to work for a large, impersonalorganization.• It was an impersonal system; it made no difference who you were, so long as you could master its rules.• Bawdiness has been toned down and feastingreduced to sadly impersonaluniformity.• There are fewer beautiful people out there who want to get up close and impersonal with us.
VERBS | ADVERBVERBS➤be, seem冷漠;似乎漠然▸➤become變得沒有人情味▸➤find sth發現⋯冷漠◇I find the atmosphere there rather impersonal.我發現那兒的氣氛相當冷淡。➤keep sth保持⋯客觀◇I think we should keep things entirely impersonal.我認為咱們應該保持對事不對人的客觀態度。ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常冷淡▸➤totally完全沒有人情味▸➤a little, slightly, etc.有點兒/略有些冷漠▸➤coldly冷冰冰◇The law is abstract and coldly impersonal.法律既抽象又沒人情味。➤seemingly表面冷淡