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If you are non-committal, you carefully do not say what you really think, or what you plan to do. You give an answer that leaves the door open: “We’ll see,” “That’s interesting,” “I haven’t decided.” People do this to stay polite, to keep their choices, or to avoid a fight. Though actually, it can also the other person, because they can tell you are holding something back. It is a slightly formal word, used about people and about what they say or do — a non-committal smile, a non-committal reply. It is not the same as having no opinion; it is choosing not to show it.
不表態的、含糊其詞的
組成non- (“not”) + committal (from commit, “to lock yourself into a choice”).
同家族的字
- committhe verb: to lock yourself into a plan or opinion
- commitmentthe noun for that locked-in choice
原始詞典資料1 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。
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。