核心畫面

You can picture a desk where every paper has been dropped wherever it happened to land: nothing is wrong with any single sheet, but no order was ever put into the pile, so finding one thing means digging through everything. Think of *organized* as the act of putting things into an order that holds, and *dis-* as that order never being there or coming undone.

一張桌子,上面每張紙都是隨手往哪裡一放就留在哪裡——單看每一張紙都沒問題,問題是從頭到尾沒有人把它們排出一個秩序,所更多收起一張桌子,上面每張紙都是隨手往哪裡一放就留在哪裡——單看每一張紙都沒問題,問題是從頭到尾沒有人把它們排出一個秩序,所以想找一份東西就得整堆翻過一遍。organize 是「把東西擺進一個站得住的順序裡」,前面加上 dis-,就是那個順序根本沒建立起來,或是後來散掉了。這個字描述的不是髒或壞,而是「沒有系統」:東西都在,只是彼此之間沒有關係,因此難找、難跟。

One branch

東西與安排本身沒有秩序

這一家族直接就是核心畫面本身:被說 disorganized 的是那些紙、那個房間、那場活動或那段話。

not in a clear order · adjective · B2

Not put into a clear order, or not planned with any system behind it, so that things are hard to find or hard to follow. Used about papers, rooms, events, speeches, or any piece of work.

雜亂無章;沒有章法

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。

disorganizedadj/dɪsˈɔːɡənaɪzd/

  • 1

    Lacking order or organization; confused; chaotic.

    • If we fail to repulse the enemy within the gates--unemployment, poverty, disorganized agriculture and the like--from whence may we expect the united strength and clear purpose to repulse any outside force?
  • 2

    Lacking skills for organizing one's affairs.

    • He is quite disorganized and has difficulty planning his day or remembering when his homework is due.
  • 3

    human-sciencespsychologysciencesIn a state of disruption of orderly psychological functioning; engaging in behavior that is chaotic, self-contradictory, or out of keeping with reality; (of a mental illness) poorly controlled and leading to a disorganized state.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。