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A non-event is something that did happen — a party, a match, a product launch, a “big day” — but it felt like nothing. People expected noise, surprise, or importance, and then the thing was small, quiet, or dull, so afterwards you shrug. Sports writers and gossip columns love the word; it is a little informal and a little mean, in a tired way rather than a cruel way. Though actually the name tricks you: it is not “an event that never took place.” It took place. It just failed to be the event everyone had built up in their heads.
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組成From non- + event. Here non- does not mean “it never happened”; it means the happening failed to feel like a real event.
同家族的字
- eventthe happening that was supposed to matter
原始詞典資料2 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。
non-eventnoun
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A situation which, contrary to expectation, turned out to be uninteresting, unimportant or unexciting; an anticlimax.
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A publicised event which does not take place.
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。