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Illegibility is the noun for the quality of being hard or impossible to read. If a note is a mess of lines, its illegibility is the problem: your eyes cannot turn the marks into words. It is not about a difficult idea. The meaning might be simple, but the writing, the print, or the copy will not sit still for you. Though actually, people almost never say this word out loud. They say I cannot read this or the writing is terrible. You will meet illegibility in more formal notes — a teacher's comment, a form filled in badly, an old letter. It always points at reading with the eyes, not at understanding a hard text that is printed clearly.
難以辨認(字跡或印刷看不清楚)
原始詞典資料1 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。
illegibilitynoun
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The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
- The illegibility of his handwriting made it unclear which answer he wrote.
- “Poor thing! poor thing!” says Briggs (who was thinking of twenty-four years back, and that hectic young writing-master whose lock of yellow hair, and whose letters, beautiful in their illegibility, she cherished in her old desk upstairs).
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。