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Constructive means useful and helpful, or likely to produce a good result. We use it most about talk, ideas, and criticism, not about bricks and cranes.
Constructive建設性的 means useful and helpful, or likely to produce a good result意思是有用、有幫助，或可能帶來好結果。We我們 use it most about talk, ideas, and criticism最常用來形容說話、想法和批評, not about bricks and cranes而不是磚頭和吊車
Constructive criticism tries to help you do better, not only to point at your mistakes. A constructive suggestion offers a way forward. A constructive meeting actually gets somewhere.
Constructive criticism建設性的批評 tries to help you do better是想幫你做得更好, not only to point at your mistakes而不只是指出你的錯誤。A constructive suggestion建設性的建議 offers a way forward會提供一個方向。A constructive meeting建設性的會議 actually gets somewhere真的能有進展
The everyday opposite people reach for is destructive, or simply negative. It is common at school and at work, and it sounds serious without being stiff.
The everyday opposite people reach for日常裡大家會想到的反義詞 is destructive, or simply negative是 destructive（破壞性的），或就是 negative（負面的）。It它 is common at school and at work在學校和職場都很常見, and it sounds serious without being stiff聽起來認真但不生硬
Though actually, do not hear “building” in it and stop there: a constructive comment is not a comment about construction.
Though actually不過其實, do not hear "building" in it and stop there不要聽到裡面有「building」就以為只是這樣: a constructive comment「a constructive comment」 is not a comment about construction不是在講建築工程的評論
Lawyers have another, more technical use, where constructive means “treated as if it were so”; that is not the meaning you need first.
Lawyers律師 have another, more technical use還有另一個更專業的用法, where constructive means "treated as if it were so"這裡 constructive 意思是「視為如此」; that不過那 is not the meaning you need first不是你一開始需要的意思
組成From Latin cōnstrūctīvus. By surface analysis, construct + -ive. -ive makes an adjective meaning “tending to do that.”
同家族的字
- constructthe verb this adjective is built from; the meaning has moved from “build” to “helpful”
- constructionshares construct; construction is building, constructive is “helping to build something good”
原始詞典資料5 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。
constructiveadj/kənˈstɹʌktɪv/
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Relating to or causing construction.
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Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
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Serving a useful purpose.
- At the same time, it was Marx's view that under communism men's individual possibilities would display themselves only in socially constructive ways, so that conflicts among individuals would lose all raison d'être.
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lawDeemed after the fact to exist or to have occurred, despite the formal process not having been followed; often when there was no intention to do so at the time.
- constructive dismissal
- constructive notice
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Not direct or expressed, but inferred.
- A President's power begins slipping away the moment it is known that he is going to leave: I had seen that in 1952, in 1960, in 1968. On the eve of my resignation I knew that my role was already a symbolic one, and that Gerald Ford's was now the constructive one. My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings, and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future.
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。