- 1不利於…的（書面，常接 to）
If something is inimical to X, it works against X: it makes X hard to live, grow, or happen. Bright light is inimical to sleep. A closed mind is inimical to learning. Bad air can be inimical to health. The shape you will see again and again is inimical to + a noun. It is a formal word for writing; in daily talk people more often say bad for, or it makes X hard. Though actually, the word grew from Latin for “enemy” (not a friend), so older book English also uses it for a hostile person or feeling. English, and most modern writing, leans on this “standing in the way of” sense. People sometimes stretch it to mean little more than .
組成From Late Latin inimicalis (hostile), from inimicus (enemy), from in- (not) + amicus (friend) + -alis.
原始詞典資料2 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。
inimicaladj/ɪˈnɪ.mɪ.kəl/
- 1
Harmful in effect.
- Slaves knew that some of the treatments worsened problems and, perhaps most important, they realized that a master's interest in their fitness for work was sometimes inimical to their health.
- She doesn’t want to touch it, and indeed every particle of her screams against doing so because it is somehow inimical to her.
- 2
Unfriendly, hostile.
- Her inimical attitude precludes romance.
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