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    /ʌnˈeɪbəl/

    Not able to do something, because you do not have the power, skill, time, or chance to do it.

    無法

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

Picture reaching out to do something and finding you lack what it takes — the strength, the skill, the time, or the chance — so it simply cannot be done. Unable names exactly that 'can't reach it' state.

可以想成你伸手要做某件事,卻發現少了必要的東西——力氣、技術、時間或機會——所以就是做不到。unable 描述的正是更多收起可以想成你伸手要做某件事,卻發現少了必要的東西——力氣、技術、時間或機會——所以就是做不到。unable 描述的正是這種『搆不著、辦不成』的狀態。

原始詞典資料3 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。

unableadj詞源 1/ʌnˈeɪbl̩/

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    Not able; lacking a certain ability.

    • Are you unable to mind your own business or something?
    • Fulham switched off as Giggs took a quick corner to Valencia. He played it back to Giggs, whose cross was headed in by Nani with the lurking Rooney unable to add a touch.

unableintj詞源 1/ʌnˈeɪbl̩/

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    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationIndicating that a requested course of action is not possible to carry out.

    • "November three seven kilo, climb and maintain twelve thousand." "Unable, we have pressurization problems. Maintaining nine thousand."

unableverb詞源 2/ʌnˈeɪbl̩/

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    To render unable; to disable.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。