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This is the noun for having lost your calm: you feel — or others can see — that you are worried, flustered, and no longer composed. A moment of discomposure might be a shake in the voice, a lost sentence, or a face that is no longer smooth. It is formal and a little literary. In ordinary English you would say she was flustered or he lost his . It names the inner wobble, not the act of causing it (that act is discompose). Though actually, it is a near twin of losing your ; the extra dis- just spells out that the calm has been undone.
心神不寧、方寸大亂、失態(書面)
組成From dis- + composure (calm self-control). Composure itself comes from compose.
同家族的字
- composurethe calm this word says you have lost
- composeto settle yourself; the root sitting inside composure
- discomposethe verb: to take that calm away
原始詞典資料2 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。
discomposurenoun
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The state of being discomposed.
- And now it was that I began to keep a journal of every day's employment; for, indeed, at first I was in too much hurry, and not only hurry as to labour, but in too much discomposure of mind; and my journal would have been full of many dull things[.]
- "The real reason is that some small element of danger is involved in our experiment, though it is not sufficient to justify the discomposure which I see upon many of your faces."
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obsoleteDiscordance; disagreement of parts.
- But this is wrought by emission , or suppression , or suffocation , of the native spirits ; and also by the disordination and discomposure of the tangible parts , and other passages of nature , and not by a conflict of heats
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。