1. 1毫不害臊的、大方坦然的(該覺得尷尬卻完全不尷尬;多半帶「坦率得可愛」的意味,但看語境也可能是貶)

    Not ashamed and not — especially when most people in that situation would be. The word only makes sense against an expectation: someone has done something unusual, cheeky, sentimental, or rude, and instead of shrinking, they carry on openly. "He was unabashed by the laughter" means the laughter did not touch him. It often describes a manner rather than a moment: unabashed delight, unabashed curiosity, an unabashed romantic. Interestingly, the feeling attached to it is often rather than critical — being unabashed about loving a silly song or crying at a film sounds honest and free, not . But it can tilt the other way too, when the thing not being ashamed of is something the speaker thinks should a person. Which way it leans comes entirely from what follows it. There is also the adverb unabashedly, which is common. The word is a bit literary — you will meet it far more in writing than in casual speech.

組成un- ("not") + abashed ("embarrassed, made to feel ashamed"). Abashed comes to English through Old French from a verb meaning roughly "to leave someone gaping" — the mouth open in surprise. Note that abashed is rare on its own now, while unabashed is common; the negative outlived the positive.

同家族的字

  • abashedthe same word without the un-, meaning embarrassed
  • unabatedsame un- prefix on a past participle
  • unhappysame un- meaning "not"

原始詞典資料2 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。

unabashedadj/ˌʌnəˈbæʃt/

  • 1

    Not disconcerted or embarrassed.

    • For the third time Allan looked at his lawyer. And for the third time his lawyer looked back at him quite unabashed.
    • Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit.
  • 2

    Of actions, emotions, facts, etc.: that are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.

    • [G]oodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much privacy, elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, [...]
    • [...]; a balance not artfully calculated, as her tears and her falterings showed, but resulting naturally from her unabashed sincerity.

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