- 1別有用心的、另有目的的。台灣最常說的搭配是「別有用心」「另有企圖」，例如「他幫忙一定另有目的」。中文的「動機不純」也接近。
Ulterior almost always appears in one fixed phrase: an ulterior motive. That means a hidden reason for doing something — the real reason, kept out of sight, usually because it benefits you. Someone helps you move house and you later find out they wanted a look at your flat: that is an ulterior motive. The key is not just hidden but self-serving; a nice surprise kept secret is not an ulterior motive. The word is nearly always negative, and it nearly always comes before 'motive', sometimes 'purpose' or 'design'. You cannot say 'his reason was ulterior' — it does not sit after 'be' in normal English. Note the plural sounds natural too: 'I think she had ulterior motives'. There is a second, much rarer meaning — 'further away' or 'beyond', or 'coming later' — which you will meet only in old legal or formal writing. Ignore it for speaking; recognise it if you see it. And be careful of the spelling: it ends -ior, like superior and inferior, not -ier.
組成From Latin ulterior meaning 'further, more distant' — built from ulter 'beyond' plus -ior, the ending meaning 'more'. So the buried image is a reason lying further off, beyond the one you can see.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
ulterioradj/ʌlˈtɪə.ɹɪə/
- 1
Situated beyond, or on the farther side.
- It [Spain] was divided by the Romans into two provinces, Citeriour and Ulteriour, nearer and farther, that is, from Rome.
- Both citerior and ulterior locations (and corresponding contact locations) are marked similarly. Complex prepositions with mua 'front' […] and tua 'back' […] can denote citerior and ulterior locations respectively, while tafa 'side' […] can denote either citerior or ulterior locations.
- 2
Beyond what is obvious or evident.
- Let a watch be contrived and constructed ever so ingeniously: be its parts ever so many, ever so complicated, ever so finely wrought, or artificially put together, it cannot go without a weight or spring, that is, without a force independent of, and ulteriour to, its mechanism.
- Other aestheticians have said that aesthetic contemplation is nothing more than sustained, concentrated attention to an object in which there is no ulterior purpose and the attention is an end in itself.
- 3
Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.
- Motives, of course, may be mixed; but this only means that a man aims at a variety of goals by means of the same course of action. Similarly a man may have a strong motive or a weak one, an ulterior motive or an ostensible one.
- 4
archaicHappening later; subsequent.
- Their noble and grand Mightineſſes have thereby not only ſatisfied the general wiſhes of the greateſt and beſt part of the inhabitants of this province, but they have laid the foundations of ulteriour alliances and correſpondencies of friendſhip and of good underſtanding with the United States of America, which promiſe new life to the languiſhing ſtate of our commerce, navigation, and manufactures.
- A rather deep red coloration, which appears by the action of the first bubbles of chlorine, but which soon disappears by the ulterior action of this gas: not turbid.
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