沒有吸引力的兩種方向
同一股缺席的拉力，一次作用在眼睛上，一次作用在意願上。
not good-looking · adjective · B2
Not pretty, and not nice to look at. You can use it about a person, about clothes, or about a thing or a place, such as a building or a colour.
難看的；不好看的
核心畫面
Nothing here pulls you toward it. Picture standing in front of something and feeling no tug at all — your eyes do not want to stay, your hand does not reach out. The word is built on 'attract', so it names an absence: the pull that would draw you in simply is not there.
那個東西「沒有把你拉過去的力量」。attract 本來是吸引、把人拉近，加上 un- 就是把那股拉力抽掉。想像你站在…更多收起
那個東西「沒有把你拉過去的力量」。attract 本來是吸引、把人拉近，加上 un- 就是把那股拉力抽掉。想像你站在一件外套前面，眼睛掃過去、停不住，手也沒有伸出去的衝動——不是它有多糟，而是它完全沒有勾住你。這個字的力氣不在「醜」或「爛」，而在那個缺席的吸引力：本來該有一股把你拉近的力，現在沒有。也因為是講「拉力」而不是講「品質」，它可以同時用在好不好看和值不值得選這兩件事上。One branch
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。
unattractiveadj
- 1
Not handsome or beautiful or appealing.
- All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles.
- 2
Lacking the power to attract interest.
- Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
- In Britain, nearly 2,500 steam locomotives were built, 999 to new designs. Although the latter were modern, they were still labour-intensive to man and maintain, during a period of full employment when working for poor pay in the dirty railway environment was unattractive.
unattractivenoun
- 1
An aesthetically unattractive person
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。