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You can picture two runners on a track, but one of them starts a few metres further back. Nothing is broken and nobody is stopping them — they simply have something working against them that the other one doesn't. A disadvantage is that extra distance: the bad part of a thing, or the worse position a person is in.
可以想成兩個人跑同一場比賽，但其中一個的起跑線被往後挪了幾公尺。沒有人犯規，也沒有東西壞掉，只是他身上多了一個對他不…更多收起
可以想成兩個人跑同一場比賽，但其中一個的起跑線被往後挪了幾公尺。沒有人犯規，也沒有東西壞掉，只是他身上多了一個對他不利的條件，別人沒有。disadvantage 指的就是那段多出來的距離——放在事情上，是它不好的那一面；放在人身上，是他被擺在比較吃虧的位置。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。
disadvantagenoun/ˌdɪsədˈvɑːntɪdʒ/
- 1
A weakness or undesirable characteristic; con; drawback.
- The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere.
- One of the disadvantages of increasing intermediate stops is that, as we have pointed out already, certain prestige trains have to suffer, notably the "Cornish Riviera Express", slowed 15min to Plymouth by stops at Taunton and Exeter; the "Torbay Express", decelerated 18min by stops at Reading, Westbury, Taunton and Newton Abbot; and the "Bristolian", which adds 14min in order to allow for a Bath stop and an increased load.
- 2
A setback or handicap.
- My height is a disadvantage for reaching high shelves.
- I was brought hither under the disadvantage of being unknown, even by sight, to any of you.
- 3
Loss; detriment; hindrance.
- They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public.
disadvantageverb/ˌdɪsədˈvɑːntɪdʒ/
- 1
To place at a disadvantage.
- They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.
- For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.
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。