- 1冷場；雷聲大雨點小的活動
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.
non-event 指確實發生過、但感覺一點都不特別的事，例如一場派對、一場比賽或一次新產品發表會。人們原本以為會很熱鬧、很讓人驚訝或很重要，結果卻很小、很安靜或很無聊，事後大家就只是聳聳肩。
體育記者和八卦專欄很愛用這個字。它語氣口語，帶著一點疲倦的嫌棄，但不太刻薄。字面上看起來像沒有發生的活動，其實並不是；它真的發生了，只是沒有達到大家事先想像的那種樣子。
From the word’s history
non- + event.
由字首 non- 加 event 組成。
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，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。
non-eventnoun
- 1
A situation which, contrary to expectation, turned out to be uninteresting, unimportant or unexciting; an anticlimax.
- 2
A publicised event which does not take place.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。