- 1無能、不勝任（工作能力不夠；正式、語氣重）
Incompetence is the noun: the lack of the skill or ability to do a job properly. If someone keeps making serious mistakes at work, people may talk about their incompetence — they cannot do what the job needs. This is a hard, formal word. In an office it is not a gentle note; it is a strong claim that someone is unfit for the work. News and reports use it; friends more often say someone is bad at the job, or cannot do it. Though actually, law and medicine also use incompetence for a person who cannot legally make decisions for themselves, for example after a serious illness. That is still “not able,” but about rights and care, not about being bad at a task. For school English, start with the job sense.
From the word’s history
From French incompétence; equivalent to in- + competence.
源自法文 incompétence，等於 in-「不」加 competence。
組成From French incompétence: in- (not) + competence (the skill to do something well).
同家族的字
- competencewithout in-: having the skill to do the job
- competentthe adjective: able to do the job properly
- incompetentthe adjective form of this noun
原始詞典資料1 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。
incompetencenoun/ɪnˈkɒm.pə.təns/
- 1
An inability to perform; a lack of competence; ineptitude.
- ... at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals--morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence of mere unaided virtue or right-mindedness in Starbuck
- Winston did not know why Withers had been disgraced. Perhaps it was for corruption or incompetence. Perhaps Big Brother was merely getting rid of a too-popular subordinate.
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