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Unappealing means not attractive and not pleasant — something you do not feel drawn to. It covers a wide range: food, places, jobs, offers, ideas, people's behaviour. 'An unappealing flat', 'an unappealing job offer', 'His attitude is deeply unappealing.' The important thing about this word is its level. It is softer and more polite than ugly, horrible or disgusting, because it says how something affects YOU rather than declaring what it IS. That makes it very useful when you want to turn something down without being harsh: 'The idea is unappealing to me' is much gentler than 'That's a terrible idea.' British speakers especially use it this way, as criticism. It often appears with 'to' plus a person: 'unappealing to younger customers'. It also takes strong happily: distinctly unappealing, thoroughly unappealing, singularly unappealing — and those combinations can be quite cutting even though every single word is polite. Note it does not mean 'boring'. A thing can be and still unappealing — a dangerous job, for instance.
不吸引人的、讓人提不起興趣的。台灣口語裡接近「沒什麼吸引力」「讓人不太想碰」,語氣比「難看」「噁心」客氣很多
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。
unappealingadj
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Not appealing.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky has known the day would come when the idea of another “forever war” became unappealing to NATO, and the world’s largest military alliance eventually sought to wind down its involvement.
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。