- 1不間斷的、連續的（如 unbroken silence 一片寂靜、unbroken record 連續不斷的紀錄）；也指未破損、完好無缺的。
Unbroken most often means continuous — going on and on with no gap and no . That is the sense to teach first: an unbroken silence, an unbroken line of trees, twenty years of unbroken service, an unbroken run of wins, an unbroken night's sleep. Here what could 'break' is not an object but a stretch of time or a line; a break would be a pause or a hole in it, and there isn't one. There is also the plain physical sense — an unbroken egg, an unbroken window, the seal on the box was unbroken — meaning simply 'not damaged, still whole'. And a third, quieter one for people: an unbroken spirit is one that hardship never crushed, close to . It sits comfortably in both speech and writing, though 'unbroken' for time feels a little more literary than saying 'in a row'. The word goes back to Old English, so it is not a modern invention.
From the word’s history
From Old English ungebrocen, un- + broken.
un-（不）加 broken（破的），古英文已有 ungebrocen。
組成un- + broken, the past participle of break. It comes down through Middle English unbroken from Old English unġebrocen, and its relatives are still alive next door: Dutch ongebroken, German ungebrochen — the same three pieces in each language.
同家族的字
- breakthe root verb
- unbreakablesame break, but about what could happen rather than what did
- heartbrokenthe same broken, used for a feeling instead of an object
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
unbrokenadj詞源 1/ʌnˈbɹoʊkn̩/
- 1
Whole, not divided into parts.
- After the vase had fallen down the flight of stairs we were amazed to find it still unbroken.
- A considerable amount of unbroken stone is brought down to Ravenglass and used locally.
- 2
Of a horse, not tamed.
- There is something majestic about the spirit of an unbroken mustang as it runs wild across the prairie.
- 3
Continuous, without interruption.
- The team's unbroken winning streak was a record.
- The climb out of Aberdeen is a most forbidding proposition to an engine starting cold; it is quite unbroken for 7 miles up the cliffs to milepost 234.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- unbreak
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。