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If you call a person, a remark, or a decision callous, you mean they do not care that other people are hurting. They look at pain and stay cold. It is a strong, judging word, a little formal; in easy talk people might say cold or instead. You hear it about bosses, rules, jokes that land on someone already down. Though actually, the word began as a picture of thick, hard skin that no longer feels much. That skin sense still exists, but when we talk about people we almost always mean the heart, not the hands.
冷酷無情；麻木不仁
組成From Latin callōsus, hard-skinned, from callum, hardened skin, plus -ōsus, full of. Hard skin became a picture of a hard heart.
同家族的字
- callussame Latin callum, hard skin — callus is the thick patch itself
- callousedcallous + -ed; usually describes rough, thickened skin
- callouslycallous + -ly; the uncaring manner
- callousnesscallous + -ness; the uncaring quality
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
callousadj/ˈkæləs/
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Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
- She was so callous that she could criticise a cancer patient for wearing a wig.
- Re-watching some of the audition rounds of these shows now, you're struck by how callous the judges' comments often were, and how they presented a cruel spectacle in which the audience were set up to laugh at the "deluded" members of the public who believed they could sing.
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Having calluses, or relating to calluses.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。