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insouciant

\in-SOO-see-uhnt; Fr. an-soo-SYAHN\ , adjective:
1.Marked by lighthearted unconcern or indifference; carefree; nonchalant.
形容词 a.
1.漫不经心的;不在乎的

Quotes:
The insouciant gingerbread man skips through the pages with glee, until he meets his . . . demise at the end.
~Judith Constantinides, "The Gingerbread Man", School Library Journal, April 2002
They don't seem to care whether they become stars or not, and their irony . . . has a scoffing, insouciant feel.
~Thomas Frank, "Pop music in the shadow of irony", Harper's Magazine, March 1998
There's a Steely Dan-ish wit to the title track ("The truth itself is nothing but a gamble/It might or might not set you free"), but Peyroux tosses off the lines with an insouciant shrug of the shoulders.
~Geoffrey Himes, "Getting to the Heart of It", Washington Post, June 19, 2009

Origin:
Insouciant is from the French, from in-, "not" + souciant, "caring," present participle of soucier, "to trouble," from Latin sollicitare, "to disturb," from sollicitus, "anxious." The noun form is insouciance.

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