- 1搗亂的、干擾的；（商業）顛覆性的、破壞式的。台灣科技圈常說「破壞式創新」。
When something is disruptive, it gets in the way and stops things going on as usual. A phone going off in class is disruptive. A strike can be disruptive to trains. The feeling of the word is usually negative: you have broken the flow, and people are .
Though actually, business and tech people gave it a second, almost proud meaning. From the 1990s, writers such as Clayton Christensen talked about “disruptive” new products: they start small and cheap, then grow so fast that old companies cannot keep doing things the old way. In a school report, disruptive behaviour is a problem. In a start-up meeting, a disruptive idea may be a compliment. Same word; you have to hear who is speaking. It is a normal adjective in news, schools, and offices — not slang, not poetic.
From the word’s history
From disrupt + -ive.
disrupt 加 -ive。
組成disrupt (break the flow; stop the usual way) + -ive (adjective: having that quality).
同家族的字
- disruptthe verb this adjective is built from
- disruptionthe noun for the break or the interruption
- disruptora person or thing that disrupts; also a business buzzword
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
disruptiveadj/dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/
- 1
Causing disruption or unrest.
- Children who exhibit disruptive behaviour may be expelled from school.
- 2
businessCausing major change, as in a market.
- disruptive technologies
- Each time a disruptive technology emerged, between one-half and two-thirds of the established manufacturers failed to introduce models employing the new architecture—in stark contrast to their timely launches of critical sustaining technologies.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。