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If something is objectionable, it is unpleasant and likely to offend people — the sort of thing you could reasonably object to. It often describes behaviour, language, or pictures (‘objectionable content’).
If something is objectionable如果某樣東西是objectionable, it is unpleasant and likely to offend people代表它令人不舒服,很可能會冒犯到別人 — the sort of thing you could reasonably object to就是那種你可以合理提出反對的東西。It often describes它常用來形容 behaviour, language, or pictures行為、言語,或圖片 ('objectionable content')('objectionable content'/令人反感的內容)。
The word feels formal, even a little official; complaint letters, school rules, and news reports like it. In ordinary talk, people are more likely to say offensive, nasty, or just not okay.
The word feels formal, even a little official這個字感覺正式,甚至有點官方;complaint letters, school rules, and news reports like it投訴信、校規和新聞報導都愛用它。In ordinary talk在日常說話裡, people are more likely to say大家比較常說 offensive, nasty, or just not okayoffensive、nasty,或乾脆說not okay。
Though actually, objectionable is a shade broader than offensive: something can be objectionable because it is crude, cruel, or simply in very poor taste, not only because it insults a group.
Though actually不過其實, objectionable is a shade broader than offensiveobjectionable的範圍比offensive稍微廣一點: something can be objectionable一樣東西可能被說成objectionable because it is crude, cruel, or simply in very poor taste因為粗俗、殘忍,或單純品味很差, not only because it insults a group不一定是因為它侮辱了某個族群。
A quiet trap lives in the ending: the -able does not mean ‘able to object’. An objectionable person is not someone skilled at complaining; they are someone others have reason to complain about.
A quiet trap lives in the ending字尾裡藏著一個不明顯的陷阱: the -able does not mean-able並不是 'able to object'「有能力反對」的意思。An objectionable person is not someone skilled at complaining一個objectionable的人,不是很會抱怨的人;they are someone others have reason to complain about而是別人有理由抱怨的對象。
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。
objectionableadj
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Arousing disapproval; worthy of objection; offensive.
- Before removing objectionable material, you'll have to decide what will offend people.
- The L.C.C. [London County Council] considers viaducts in London objectionable and a hindrance to town planning and would like to abolish all the Southern Railway lines on viaducts in South London. [Nothing much happened, they still exist.]
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。