喜樂美語
  1. 1廢棄不用、不再使用

    Disuse is the state of no longer being used. A tool, a room, a skill, a word, a railway — if people have stopped using it, it falls into disuse. The usual pattern is fall into disuse, or years of disuse. The thing may still be there; it is not always broken or thrown away, just ignored. A language can fall into disuse. So can a muscle, if you never use it. The word is a little formal. There is a verb disuse, but you almost never hear it; people use this noun, or the adjective disused. Though actually, disuse is not the same as being unused from the start: unused can mean never used, or not used yet. Disuse means it had a life, and that life has stopped.

組成From Old French desuser; in English it is dis- (the opposite of / reversing) + use.

同家族的字

  • usethe opposite idea: putting something to work
  • unusednot used — close, but often 'never used' or 'not used yet'
  • disusedthe adjective: no longer in use, especially of buildings and railways

原始詞典資料3 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。

disusenoun/dɪsˈjuːs/

  • 1

    The state of not being used; neglect.

    • The garden fell into disuse and became overgrown.
    • The decline and eventual closing of the various industrial undertakings and the non-renewal of the L.N.W.R. lease led to the railway falling into disuse, and most of it has now been lifted.

disuseverb/dɪsˈjuːs/

  • 1

    To cease the use of.

    • Whether in process of time Shakspeare grew weary of the bondage of rhyme, or whether he became convinced of its impropriety in a dramatick dialogue, his neglect of rhyming (for he never wholly disused it) seems to have been gradual.
    • 1792, Cruelty the natural and inseparable Consequence of Slavery, preached March 11, 1792, at Hemel-Hempstead, Herts. By John Liddon, in The Monthly Review, May to August, Volume VIII, p. 238, https://books.google.ca/books?id=TKvkAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The author does not fail to recommend the practice, adopted, it is said, by many thousands in the kingdom, of disusing the West India produce.
  • 2

    archaicTo disaccustom.

    • He was disused to hard work.
    • Whether a rotten state, and hope of gaine, Or to disuse mee from the queasie paine Of being belov'd, and loving, or the thirst Of honour, or faire death, out pusht mee first, I lose my end: for here as well as I A desperate may live, and a coward die.

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