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/ɪnˈtrænsətɪv/
used about a verb that has a subject but no object. In the sentence 'They arrived', the verb 'arrived' is intransitive. Dictionaries often mark these verbs with the letter [I].
不及物的
核心畫面
A verb whose action stops at the . They arrived. She slept. The dog barked. There is nobody and nothing on the far side of the verb — no object for the action to land on.
動作走到主詞這裡就停住了，沒有再往外落到任何東西身上。They arrived.（他們到了）、She slept.（…更多收起
動作走到主詞這裡就停住了，沒有再往外落到任何東西身上。They arrived.（他們到了）、She slept.（她睡了）、The dog barked.（狗叫了）——這些句子已經完整，動詞後面接不上受詞。你不能說 They arrived the station，得改成 They arrived at the station，用介系詞把地點接進來。這樣的動詞就叫「不及物動詞」，字典常標成 [I]（intransitive）；相對的是及物動詞 transitive，標成 [T]，動作會落在一個受詞上，例如 She ate the cake。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。
intransitiveadj/ɪnˈtɹænsətɪv/
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsNot transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.
- The word "drink" is a transitive verb in "they drink wine", but an intransitive one in "they drink often."
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rareNot transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
- 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further.
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mathematicsprobabilitysciencesOf a set of dice: containing three dice A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but lacking the property that A rolls higher than C more than half the time. See intransitive dice and intransitive game.
intransitivenoun/ɪnˈtɹænsətɪv/
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsAn intransitive verb.
- This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).
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。