心不在焉英语怎么说
I said the wrong thing, acted too desperate, or wasn't interested enough.
I concentrated on unscrewing the lid of my lemonade. I took a swig, staring at the table without seeing it.
She has apparently been dozing and, having come to just as the sentence ended, was attempting to cover for her inattention.
Another common episode of absent mindedness was walking into a room and wondering why you're there.
"Nothing," Rosie said in an absent way.
The lecture dragged on and my mind wandered.
As we're too absent-minded by what's happening in the virtual some of us have lost conversational skills and sometimes can't even tell whether a person is happy or not.
Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent minded actions for a fortnight.
There are countless others who, because of age, sickness or plain absent-mindedness, simply forget to pay for what they take from the shops.
She had seemed curiously distracted.
She had a dreamy look in her eyes.
He looked up distractedly. "Be with you in a second."
The same abstracted look was still on his face.
His mind would wander, and he would lose track of what he was doing.
Your blank expression, and the faraway look in your eyes are the cues that betray you inattentiveness.
Jessica babbled on and on about her dance plans, completely unaware of my inattention.
Elizabeth absent-mindedly picked a thread from his lapel.
Visual cues can help prevent absent mindedness.
He went into the bathroom absent-mindedly and looked at himself in the mirror.
He nodded absently, his attention absorbed by the screen.
Lack of interest can also lead to absent mindedness.
It found poor Tom low-spirited and absent-minded, and this mood continued; he could not shake it off.