胡亂畫，塗鴉尤指在精神集中在其它事情時，心不在焉地亂塗 To scribble aimlessly, especially when preoccupied.
茫然的眼神；心不在焉的教授；過度活躍但又不能集中思想的心不在焉的特性。 an absent stare; an absentminded professer; the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence.
心不在焉；恍惚 A state of abstraction; a trance.
他極度心不在焉，以至於兩天沒吃東西。 His abstraction was so deep that he did not eat for two days.
她臉上帶着一種心不在焉的神態。 There is an air of abstraction in her face.
告訴他切不可心不在焉。 Tell him never be absentminded.
他心不在焉地讀着那封信。 he read the letter absently.
她露出一幅心不在焉的表情。 There's an absent expression on her face.
夢似的心境或性情；心不在焉的 Dreamy in mood or nature; absent-minded.
他表現出心不在焉的樣子。 He had an absent-minded manner.
你真是心不在焉！ You is really absent minded.
你真是心不在焉！ You are really absent - minded.
你真是心不在焉！ You is really absent-minded.
一些教授總是心不在焉的。 Some professors are absent-minded.
她看起來心不在焉。 She had an absent look on her face.
當時他心不在焉。 He was absence in his mind then.
我心不在焉惹惱了他。 My absence of mind irritated him.
看過好多中國人寫冼星海生平的書，有關新加坡的部分同樣是語焉不詳。 Similarly, books penned by Chinese on the life of Xian that I have come across are vague on this.
我們班有些同學心不在焉，就連最簡單的問題，他們也答不上來。 Some of the kids in my class are out to lunch. They can't even answer the simplest questions.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。 Nothing brave, nothing have.
不入虎穴，焉得虎子。 If you venture nothing, you will have nothing.
夫大國難測也，懼有伏焉。 It is difficult to fathom the moves of a great state, and I feared an ambush.
當時有的幹部對執行這一任務有顧慮，伯承對他們說，這個行動可以把敵人吸引到我們身上來，減輕兄弟野戰軍的壓力。釜底抽薪，焉能懼怕燙手，即使作出犧牲，也義無反顧。 Some cadres hesitated before this prospect, but Bocheng explained the situation to them. "If we do this," he said, "we can draw the enemy to ourselves and make it easier for the other field armies. How can you take hot embers out from under a pot if you are afraid of burning your fingers? Even if we have to make sacrifices, we should not begrudge them."
塞翁失馬，焉知非福。 Nothing so bad but might be a blessing.
她的衆所周知的遲到；公認的心不在焉的教授；公認的金發碧眼的女人。 her proverbial lateness; the proverbial absentiminded professor; your proverbial dizzy blonde.
教授心不在焉地沿途瞎遛. The professor bumbled absent-mindedly along the road.
“塞翁失馬，焉知非福”國民黨失敗了，如能認真檢討，决心改過，未來仍有再起的機會。 Misfortune may prove to be a blessing in disguise, as the saying goes. Should the defeated KMT be able to earnestly examine how it failed and correct its mistakes and errors, there can still be chances for it to stage a comeback someday.
過分關註某事的；心不在焉的 Excessively concerned with something; distracted.
一方面——參加革命的可能性，又一方面——對革命敵人的妥協性，這就是中國資産階級“一身而二任焉”的兩面性。 Possible participation in the revolution on the one hand and proneness to conciliation with the enemies of the revolution on the other--such is the dual character of the Chinese bourgeoisie, it faces both ways.
賀電；通常表示祝賀的人明顯都是心不在焉的；賀詞。 a congratulatory telegram; the usual congratulatory crowd was conspicuously absent; a gratulatory address.
根本心不在焉 lend a very distracted attention
如果面試中的他反應遲鈍，心不在焉，固執武斷，你可以想像每周一到周五工作中的他會是一副什麽樣子。 Because if that person is dull,distracted or dogmatic in an interview,guess what they're going to be like Monday through Friday?