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If something is forgettable, it is not bad enough to hate and not good enough to stay with you — a film, a meal, a pop song, a person you met once at a party. The word is often a little dry and a little funny: calling a book perfectly forgettable is a polite way to say it was dull. People use it more as a quiet put-down than as a neutral fact. The opposite, unforgettable, is the common praise-word; forgettable is its smiling twin, and you hear that humour in it. It is about the thing failing to stick, not about a person who loses keys.
容易被忘掉的、沒啥印象的(常帶一點挖苦)
組成forget + -able (can be forgotten). The ending -able came into English through French, from Latin.
同家族的字
- forgetthe verb this describing-word is built on
- unforgettablethe common opposite: too strong or too good to forget
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。
forgettableadj
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Possible to be forgotten.
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Easily forgotten; not special or notable.
- Barthes describes the punctum (the nonconnotative or denotative meaning) of the photograph (or movie still) in such a manner; the detail relevant or not relevant to the image's overall meaning becomes the focus of an otherwise forgettable picture […]
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。