- 1aB1
/ˌʌnəˈtendɪd/
left alone without anyone watching or looking after a person or thing.
無人看管的;無人照料的
比較級 more unattended最高級 most unattended
核心畫面
Picture a bag sitting by itself on a station bench, or a pot left on the stove: the thing is there, but nobody is with it. The word names that gap — not that the thing is lost, but that no one is keeping an eye on it.
可以想成:車站長椅上獨自擺著的一個包,或是爐火上沒人顧的鍋子——東西還在,只是身邊沒有人。這個字標記的就是那個空缺:…更多收起
可以想成:車站長椅上獨自擺著的一個包,或是爐火上沒人顧的鍋子——東西還在,只是身邊沒有人。這個字標記的就是那個空缺:不是東西不見了,而是「沒有人在看著」。也因為如此,它最常出現在提醒和規定裡。原始詞典資料2 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。
unattendedadj
- 1
Not attended; without persons present.
- The meeting went largely unattended, since it took place on Christmas Eve.
- System administrators may schedule an unattended installation of the software.
- 2
Not attended to; not receiving attention.
- The fire was caused by an unattended electric blanket.
- I have been attempting to persuade gay organizations and leaders to take this approach, without concrete results. It is a serious failure of gay leadership not to have organized open defiance of sodomy laws, and my own attitude is not to wait for leaders when there is an unattended need.
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。