Unborn means not yet born — still inside the mother.

Unborn未出生的 means not yet born意思是還沒出生 — still inside the mother還在母親肚子裡。

It goes in front of a noun almost all the time: an unborn child, an unborn baby. You would not normally say 'the baby is unborn', which sounds strange; you would say 'the baby isn't born yet'. That front-of-the-noun habit is the main thing to learn about it.

It goes in front of a noun almost all the time它幾乎總是放在名詞前面: an unborn child, an unborn baby像 an unborn child、an unborn baby。You would not normally say 'the baby is unborn'你通常不會說 'the baby is unborn', which sounds strange那聽起來怪怪的; you would say 'the baby isn't born yet'你會說 'the baby isn't born yet'。That front-of-the-noun habit is the main thing to learn about it這個「放在名詞前面」的習慣，是關於這個詞最該記住的重點。

It is a serious, slightly formal word, and you will meet it most in three places: in medicine and health advice (smoking can harm your unborn child), in law and politics (arguments about the rights of the unborn — where 'the unborn' with 'the' means all of them as a group), and in writing about the future, where 'unborn generations' means the people who will live after we are all gone. That last use is a bit literary and old-fashioned in feel.

It is a serious, slightly formal word它是一個嚴肅、稍微正式的詞, and you will meet it most in three places而你最常在三個地方遇到它: in medicine and health advice在醫療與健康建議裡 (smoking can harm your unborn child像「抽菸可能傷害你未出生的孩子」), in law and politics在法律與政治話題裡 (arguments about the rights of the unborn像關於「未出生者」權利的爭論 — where 'the unborn' with 'the' means all of them as a group這裡加了 the 的 'the unborn' 是指未出生者這整個群體), and在寫到未來的文章裡, in writing about the future, where 'unborn generations' means the people who will live after we are all gone 'unborn generations' 指的是我們都不在了之後才會出生的世代。That last use is a bit literary and old-fashioned in feel最後這種用法帶點文學味，感覺有點老派。

There is no everyday chatty version of this word; in ordinary conversation people simply say 'she's pregnant' or 'before the baby was born'.

There is no everyday chatty version of this word這個詞沒有日常口語的版本; in ordinary conversation在一般對話裡 people simply say 'she's pregnant' or 'before the baby was born'人們就直接說 'she's pregnant' 或 'before the baby was born'。