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You can picture a place where something ought to be — a shelf, a slot, a row of faces — and the place is empty. 'Missing' doesn't describe the thing itself; it describes the gap it left. Someone expected it there, looked, and found nothing. Every use keeps that shape: an expected spot, and nothing filling it.
可以想成：有一個「本來應該在」的位置——書架上的空位、拼圖上的凹槽、點名時沒人應聲的那個名字——而你走過去看，那裡是…更多收起
可以想成：有一個「本來應該在」的位置——書架上的空位、拼圖上的凹槽、點名時沒人應聲的那個名字——而你走過去看，那裡是空的。missing 描述的其實不是那個東西，而是它留下的空缺；先有「期待它在」，才會有 missing。五個用法都是同一個形狀：該在的地方，沒有東西。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。
missingadj/ˈmɪsɪŋ/
- 1
Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.
- my missing socks
- Forty three killed and 80 wounded in action with the Implacable. 180 killed and miſſing in action with the Centaur.
- 2
Not present when it (they) should be.
- missing data point
- Joe went missing last year. He had all teeth missing when he was finally found.
- 3
Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.
missingnoun/ˈmɪsɪŋ/
- 1
mathematicssciencesstatisticsA value that is missing.
- The treatment of missings is a problem in statistical software.
- Patterns of missings across the whole data set are readily visible, but also patterns which only apply to small subgroups of cases.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。