- 1nC1
/ˈdrɔːbæk/
A bad point of a plan, product, or situation that makes it less good, even when other parts are good.
缺點
複數 drawbacks
核心畫面
You can picture yourself moving forward while one hand keeps tugging you backwards: the plan is good, but one part of it pulls the other way. A drawback is that tug — not a reason the whole thing fails, just the piece that holds it back.
可以想成你正要往前走，卻有一隻手在後面把你往回拉：計畫本身是好的，但其中一項一直扯著。drawback 就是那股往後…更多收起
可以想成你正要往前走，卻有一隻手在後面把你往回拉：計畫本身是好的，但其中一項一直扯著。drawback 就是那股往後拉的力——不是整件事不行，而是讓它沒那麼好的那個部分。From the word’s history
Recorded from 1720 in the sense 'hindrance, disadvantage' — simply the verb draw plus the adverb back. The picture of something pulling progress backwards is right there in the two halves of the word.
1720 年就用來指「阻礙、不利之處」，組成非常直白：draw（拉）加 back（往回）。那個「有東西把進展往回拉」的畫面，就直接寫在字的兩半裡，拆開看就懂。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'drawback'
原始詞典資料3 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。
drawbacknoun/ˈdɹɔːˌbæk/
- 1
A disadvantage; something that detracts or takes away.
- Poor fuel economy is a common drawback among larger vehicles.
- there was no one real drawback to her flutter of excitement and happy anticipation
- 2
A partial refund of an import fee, as when goods are re-exported from the country that collected the fee.
- East-India goods, not specifically and particularly rated, are to be liable to duties and drawbacks on the value, to be taken by the gross price at the company's public sales.
- 3
The inhalation of a lungful of smoke from a cigarette, viewed as a skill of the practised smoker.
- ‘I wanta learn to do the drawback better than Swiftie.’
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。