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Unashamed describes someone who feels no embarrassment about something that other people might at — and, crucially, does not hide it. The word carries a small charge because it assumes an audience with an opinion. You would not say "I am unashamed of brushing my teeth"; you say it about the thing someone could be expected to apologise for. "He is unashamed about leaving school at fifteen." "She is an unashamed fan of very bad pop music." That second pattern is extremely common and mostly warm or funny: unashamed romantic, unashamed nostalgia, unashamed luxury. Used that way it is close to "proudly, openly, no apology needed", and it often praises the person's honesty. But the same word turns cold when the thing really is bad: "unashamed greed", "an unashamed lie" — now it means the person should feel shame and does not, which is worse than doing it quietly. So the tone comes from what follows the word, not from the word itself. it likes "about" or "of" after it, or it sits in front of a noun.
不覺得羞恥的、大方承認的(可褒可貶:褒是「坦然、不遮掩」,貶是「厚臉皮、毫不知恥」)。
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。
unashamedadj/ˌʌnəˈʃeɪmd/
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feeling or showing no shame, embarrassment or remorse
- And smiling as a Master smiles at one / That is not of his school, nor any school / But that where blind and naked Ignorance / Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, / On all things all day long ; he answer’d her.
- "How else shall we go back unashamed to our women?"
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。