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    /rɪˈtaɪərd/ · /rɪˈtaɪəd/

    Having stopped working for good, usually because you have reached an older age.

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One way to picture retired: the working years are behind you and you have out of the job for good — not between jobs, not on leave, but finished. It describes the state, so it sits with be: he is retired, while he retired names the moment he stopped.

可以想成 retired 是「工作的那些年已經在身後,你正式離開職場了」——不是待業,也不是請假,而是結束了。它描述更多收起可以想成 retired 是「工作的那些年已經在身後,你正式離開職場了」——不是待業,也不是請假,而是結束了。它描述的是一個狀態,所以搭配 be 使用:he is retired 講他現在的身分,he retired 則是講他停下來的那一刻。

原始詞典資料5 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。

retiredadj/ɹɪˈtaɪəd/

  • 1

    Secluded from society (of a lifestyle, activity etc.); private, quiet.

    • I lead a retired lifestyle.
  • 2

    Of a place, far from civilization, not able to be easily seen or accessed; secluded.

    • The little stone Saint occupied a retired niche in a side aisle of the old cathedral.
  • 3

    Having left employment, especially on reaching pensionable age. (of people)

    • The retired workers are a major expense due to their pensions.
    • Although he is now freed from responsibility for the '390s', they are still fixtures of everyday life for the retired Hertfordshire resident living alongside the WCML. "If you stand on the end of the Up Fast platform at Berkhamsted, watching it go round that corner - the sharpest curve it takes anywhere - you just think, 'wow!'
  • 4

    No longer in use or production.

    • Following Jackie Robinson's success, his uniform number, 42, became a retired number across all major league teams.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。