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Buildings, roads, machines, parks: if they are in disrepair, they have gone bad because nobody looked after them — paint peeling, holes, rust, weeds in the cracks. The usual pattern is fall into disrepair or be in a state of disrepair. It is about neglect over time, not one accident. You would not say a person is in disrepair, and you would not use it for a phone that broke this morning. The word sits in news, reports, and careful speech more than in casual chat, where people say run-down or falling apart.
失修、年久失修
組成dis- (the opposite / undoing) + repair (to mend, to put back in good shape). So: the state of not having been repaired.
同家族的字
- repairthe mending that has not happened
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。
disrepairnoun/ˌdɪs.ɹɪˈpɛə(ɹ)/
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The state of being in poor condition, in need of repair.
- The sewing machine is in disrepair.
- The house had fallen into such disrepair that no agent would show it to buyers.
disrepairverb/ˌdɪs.ɹɪˈpɛə(ɹ)/
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rareTo get into a state of disrepair.
- The house was disrepairing before your very eyes.
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。