核心畫面
Picture standing at a fork with no : several roads are still open, and nothing tells you which one it will be. Uncertainty is that open state — and English lets the word be either the feeling of standing there or one of the roads whose ending nobody knows yet.
可以想成：站在一個沒有路牌的岔路口，幾條路都還開著，沒有東西告訴你會走哪一條。uncertainty 講的就是這個「…更多收起
可以想成：站在一個沒有路牌的岔路口，幾條路都還開著，沒有東西告訴你會走哪一條。uncertainty 講的就是這個「還沒定下來」的狀態——而英文讓這個字既可以是站在那裡的那份感受，也可以是其中某一條還看不到盡頭的路。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。
uncertaintynoun/ʌnˈsɜːtənti/
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Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
- “Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
- After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage
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Something uncertain or ambiguous.
- Despite these uncertainties, Clarke told MPs he was convinced of the need to order trains powered by batteries. He said: "We're calling for a 'no regrets' order of battery trains because we see them always having a future. We see them being fundable, financeable, similar cost to diesel trains, and we know that however much electrification we would aspire to do, there's always going to be at least a third of the network that isn't electrified.
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mathematicssciencesA parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
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。