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When something is samey, it keeps giving you the same kind of thing, so you get bored. A samey playlist is song after song that all feel alike. A samey town is street after street with the same shops. It is a casual, slightly complaining word — you would say it to a friend, not in a school essay. British speakers use it a lot; American speakers usually understand it, though they more often say repetitive. It does not mean “the same as something else.” It means “too little variety.” Though actually, people also stretch it to food that is fine but never surprises you, or to a week that was all right but had no change of flavour.
千篇一律、單調的(偏英式口語)
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。
sameyadj/ˈseɪmi/
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informalExhibiting sameness, without variety; monotonous.
- Nowadays, its apartments go to finance workers who work nearby, while its bars are samey places encircled by moats of urine.
- This was a bubble, a mass delusion among operators convinced that Britain’s appetite for samey chain restaurants was insatiable.
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。