CARELESSNESS
carelessness, n.1. The fact, condition, or instance of a person’s either not having done what he or she ought to have done, or having done what he or she ought not to have done.
2. A person’s general disposition not to do something that ought to be done.
¡°The word ¡®carelessness’ as a synonym for negligence can be committed by those who care deeply. A man may take all the care of which he is capable, and yet be accounted negligent for failing to reach the objective standard. He may honestly … believe that the facts are such that he is not imperilling anyone; but he may be held to have been negligent in arriving at that belief. An incompetent driver may be convicted of driving ¡®without due care and attention¡¯ even though he was doing his level best. The careless person is the person who does not take the care he ought to take: never mind whether he felt careful. He can be held to be negligent in making a perfectly honest mistake.¡± Glanville Williams, Textbook of Criminal Law 44¨C45 (1978).
How do Chinese lawyers translate the term CARELESSNESS?