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    Rudderless means you have no one to lead you, and no clear aim. The picture underneath is a boat whose rudder is gone or not being used, so it just drifts. In real life we almost always use it about people, teams, companies, and countries, not about boats: a rudderless government, a company left rudderless after the boss left, a young person feeling rudderless. It is a little formal, the kind of word you meet in news and essays, and it is almost never a kind description — it says the group is lost. You can say it of a feeling, too: after the exam she felt rudderless. The literal sense, a boat with no rudder, exists, but you will hardly ever need it. Though actually, even then, writers usually want the picture, not the carpentry.

    群龍無首的、沒有方向的(多半是比喻,不是真的在說船)

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組成rudder + -less (without). -less is the old English ending meaning “without”.

同家族的字

  • rudderthe steering piece; rudderless is that word plus -less

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。

rudderlessadj

  • 1

    Without a rudder.

  • 2

    Lacking guidance or direction.

    • Their deaths were sobering not merely because of the searingly unbearable wrench of losing those two wonderful people, but because it left me exposed as rudderless.
    • As Christian Wolmar said in RAIL 990, our railway is "leaderless and rudderless", and drifting inexorably towards the rocks of total chaos.

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