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    Peerless means better than any other — so good that nobody else comes close. A peerless singer, a peerless performance, a peerless piece of work.

    Peerless means better than any other — so good that nobody else comes close意思是比任何人都好——好到沒有人能接近 A peerless singer, a peerless performance, a peerless piece of work像是a peerless singer(無與倫比的歌手)、a peerless performance(無與倫比的表演)、a peerless piece of work(無與倫比的作品)

    It is a high, slightly literary adjective. Reviews, speeches, and advertising like it; friends in a café almost never say it. They would say the best, , or there’s no one like her.

    It is a high, slightly literary adjective這是一個比較高雅、有點文學性的形容詞 Reviews, speeches, and advertising like it; friends in a café almost never say it書評、演講、和廣告喜歡用它;朋友在咖啡廳聊天幾乎不會這樣說 They would say the best, unmatched, or there's no one like her他們會說the best(最好的)、unmatched(無人能比)、或there's no one like her(沒有人像她一樣)

    Though actually, the picture inside the word is “without a peer”: a peer here is an equal, someone of the same standing, not the verb to peer. So peerless is “having no equal”, not “unable to look”.

    Though actually, the picture inside the word is "without a peer": a peer here is an equal, someone of the same standing, not the verb to peer不過實際上,這個字裡的畫面是「without a peer」:這裡的peer是「同儕、地位相同的人」,不是動詞to peer(凝視) So peerless is "having no equal", not "unable to look."所以peerless是「沒有同等的人」,不是「沒辦法看」

    Used too often, it starts to sound like a poster rather than a real judgement.

    Used too often, it starts to sound like a poster rather than a real judgement用得太頻繁,它就會開始聽起來像海報標語,而不是真正的評價

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成來自中古英語 pereles、perles,等於 peer(同等的人)+ -less(沒有)。

同家族的字

  • peeran equal; peerless means having no equal

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。

peerlessadj

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    Without peer or equal; unparalleled, nonpareil. Of the highest quality, best.

    • Let's after him, / Whoſe care is gone before, to bid vs welcome: / It is a peerleſſe Kinſman.
    • Having now seen himself mistaken in supposing Elfride to be peerless, nothing on earth could make him believe she was not so very bad after all.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。