2012_03_08 pococurante 冷淡 \poh-koh-koo-RAN-tee\, noun:

Word of the Day for Thursday, March  8, 2012
pococurante \poh-koh-koo-RAN-tee\, noun:
1. Caring little; indifferent; nonchalant.
adjective:
1. A careless or indifferent person.
“She is a charming lady who happened to be born in Vitebsk, and no more than that,” he kept thinking, trying to convince himself that he would be a pococurante person when it came to Nina.
 -- Johnny Wright, The Lost Chagall
Already he could see Alfred's blonde head making its way toward him, and he was smiling to himself at the thought of the contemptuous objurgations his friend would address to him at his absurd pococurante affectation, for so Alfred always called Guston's indifference, when his eyes fell upon a woman's profile seated within a few feet of him.
 -- Ernest Roland, "Lèse-Amour," The Galaxy
Pococurante came directly from Italian into English in the 1750s. It literally meant "caring little."

pococurante\ POH-KOH-辜然的發球\，名詞：

1。照顧小;漠不關心;冷淡。

形容詞：
1。不慎或漠不關心的人。

她是一位迷人的女士發生在維捷布斯克出生，並沒有比這更“，他一直在想，試圖說服自己，他會是一個pococurante人，當它到了尼娜。
- 約翰尼·賴特，失落的夏加爾

已經他可以看到Alfred的金發碧眼的頭部使對他的方式，和他的微笑想到的輕蔑objurgations他的朋友給他解決他的荒誕pococurante做作，為使阿爾弗雷德總是叫古斯頓的冷漠，當他的眼睛下跌，對自己坐在一個女人的個人資料後，他幾英尺的範圍內。
- 歐內斯特·羅蘭，“的傾慕Lèse，”銀河

pococurante直接來自意大利成英文在18世紀50年代。它的字面意思是“一點關懷。”

It's one of those "and I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house down" kind of day. Whoosh!
這是其中之一“，我一怒之下，我吹，我會吹倒你的房子”樣的一天。嗖！