喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a jigsaw with a few pieces still missing, or a form with blank lines left on it. The thing exists and you can see what it is meant to be — but not everything that belongs to it is there yet, or the work simply has not reached its end.

可以想成：東西攤在桌上，該有的部分還缺著——拼圖少了幾片，表格有幾格空白，或是事情做到一半就停在那裡。你看得出它想成…更多收起可以想成：東西攤在桌上，該有的部分還缺著——拼圖少了幾片，表格有幾格空白，或是事情做到一半就停在那裡。你看得出它想成為什麼樣子，只是還沒到齊、還沒收尾。incomplete 指的就是這個狀態。

From the picture

美國校園裡的一種成績

美國學校把這個形容詞直接拿來當成績的名字：課還沒修完、作業還沒補齊，成績單上就先記一個 Incomplete。意思沒有變，還是「還沒到齊」，只是被固定成一個名稱、變成可數名詞。

unfinished-course grade · noun · B1

American English: a school or college grade that means a student has not finished all the work for a course yet.

未完成成績

Also in this word

not finished · adjective · A2

Missing a part that should be there, or not yet finished.

不完整；未完成

原始詞典資料5 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。

incompleteadj/ɪn.kəmˈpliːt/

  • 1

    Not complete; not finished.

    • Stefania handed in her writing incomplete.
    • an incomplete jigsaw puzzle
  • 2

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesOf a flower, wanting any of the usual floral organs.

incompletenoun/ɪn.kəmˈpliːt/

  • 1

    Something incomplete.

  • 2

    video-gamesSomething incomplete.

  • 3

    A designation of being incomplete.

    • He got four incompletes out of five courses last semester.

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。