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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.
Incompetence is the nounincompetence是名詞 the lack of the skill or ability指的是缺乏技能或能力 to do a job properly把工作做好 If someone keeps making serious mistakes at work如果有人在工作上一直犯嚴重的錯 people may talk about their incompetence大家可能就會說他incompetence(無能) they cannot do what the job needs因為他做不到這份工作需要的能力
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.
This is a hard, formal word這是一個很重、很正式的字 In an office在辦公室裡 it is not a gentle note這不是溫和的說法 it is a strong claim而是很重的一句話 that someone is unfit for the work說某人不適任這份工作 News and reports use it新聞和報告會用這個字 friends more often say但朋友之間比較常說 someone is bad at the job, or cannot do it某人不擅長這份工作,或做不來
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.
Though actually不過其實 law and medicine also use incompetence法律和醫學也會用incompetence這個字 for a person who cannot legally make decisions for themselves指一個在法律上無法為自己做決定的人 for example after a serious illness例如生了一場重病之後 That is still 'not able,'這仍然是「無法」的意思 but about rights and care但講的是權利和照顧的問題 not about being bad at a task而不是講某人不擅長做某件事
For school English, start with the job sense.
For school English對學校英文來說 start with the job sense先從工作能力這個意思學起就好
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,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。
incompetencenoun/ɪnˈkɒm.pə.təns/
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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.
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。