- 1非道德的(不是「不道德的」:不道德=immoral,明知對錯還做壞事;amoral 指根本沒有對錯這套標準)
If a person, a company, or even a storm is amoral, it does not live by moral rules at all — not “good,” not “bad,” just outside that game. This is not the same as , though native speakers mix the two all the time, even in newspapers. is when you are supposed to know right from wrong and you break the rule. Amoral is when those rules are not in the picture. A cat that kills a bird is not wicked in the human sense; people call that amoral. A business that only asks “is it legal and profitable?” and never “is it decent?” is amoral in a colder, criticising way. Scientists sometimes say nature is amoral: it is not kind and not cruel. The word is fairly formal. At the dinner table you are more likely to hear “they have no morals” or “they don’t care what’s right,” which is looser and often sounds more like . Though actually, philosophers argue about whether a human can truly be amoral, or whether everyone has some code. For your English, keep the simple contrast: = against morals; amoral = without them.
組成a- (“not / without”) + moral. This a- is the Greek-style prefix, the same idea as in atypical (“not typical”).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
amoraladj/eɪˈmɒɹ.əl/
- 1
Done without consideration for morality or immorality.
- If free will is a myth, and our actions are the mere amoral outcome of biological luck for which we are not responsible, why not just run amok?
- 2
Not believing in or caring for morality and immorality.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。