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Soullessness is the quality of having no soul — but almost nobody uses it about religion. In real life it describes a place, a building, a job, a piece of music, or a whole company that feels empty inside: nothing warm, nothing personal, nothing that a human being clearly cared about. Think of a huge office block where every floor looks the same, or a shopping mall where the music never stops and no window shows the sky. That feeling is what people are naming. It is a noun, and it is formal — you meet it in writing far more than in speech. In conversation people just say 'the place feels soulless'. It carries a quiet complaint: the speaker is not saying the thing is bad at its job. The mall works. The office works. That is almost the point — it works, and something human got lost while it was being made efficient. Occasionally it is used about a person, and then it is harsh: it means they act with no feeling for anyone, like a machine wearing a face.
缺乏靈魂的狀態;死氣沉沉、冷冰冰、沒有人味。注意不是宗教上的「沒有靈魂」,多半是說某個空間、建築、工作或公司毫無溫度、千篇一律。
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。
soullessnessnoun
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The state of being soulless
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。