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Tasteless has two very different uses. Food that is tasteless has no flavor at all - it's bland and boring to eat. But a joke, a comment, or a piece of decoration can also be called tasteless, which means it shows poor judgment - it's rude, offensive, or just wrong for the situation, even if the person didn't mean any harm.
(食物)沒味道、淡而無味; (言行/裝飾)沒品味、不得體
組成taste + -less ('without'). Tasteless means without taste - either without flavor, or without good judgment about what is appropriate.
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。
tastelessadj/ˈteɪstləs/
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Having no flavour; bland; insipid.
- Near-synonym: untasteable
- They accused the cook of being a hack, claiming that the soup was tasteless.
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Lacking delicacy, refinement, and good taste; unbecoming; crass.
- They accused the designer of being a tasteless hack.
- That was a rather tasteless attack on the designer, especially given that many people like the design.
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。