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Describes something that doesn't stay the same or doesn't match up with itself. A person's story is 'inconsistent' if different parts of it contradict each other. A player's performance is 'inconsistent' if it's sometimes very good and sometimes not, with no steady pattern.
前後矛盾的（說法、證詞）；不穩定的（表現忽好忽壞）
組成in- (not) + consistent (staying the same, matching)
同家族的字
- consistentthe base word this is built from, meaning staying the same or matching
- consistencyshares the same root, the noun for staying steady or the same
原始詞典資料4 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。
inconsistentadj/ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt/
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Not consistent:
- His account of the evening was inconsistent with the security-camera footage.
- There was of course no question of admitting that the two texts were in any way inconsistent with each other.
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Not consistent:
- He gave an inconsistent account of the evening, saying he called her before eight, but later that he had not talked to her until after nine.
- He was one of those men of inconsistent politics, governed at once by prejudice and sympathies, whose 'attitude' it is impossible to foretell.
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Not consistent:
- “Take him for better or worse,” added Mr. Lee, “and I think he is the strangest and most inconsistent man I ever saw.” “Inconsistent!” resumed Mr. Jones. “He is worse than inconsistent. Inconsistencies may be pardoned as constitutional defects [...]”
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human-scienceslogicmathematicsNot consistent:
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。