核心畫面

Picture sitting on a hard wooden bench: you keep shifting, you cannot settle. That is the whole word — something is keeping you from settling down. The same restlessness moves inside, to a conversation you cannot relax in.

可以想成:坐在一張硬邦邦的木板凳上,你一直換姿勢,怎麼坐都定不下來。整個字就是這種「安不下來」的感覺。把場景從身體換更多收起可以想成:坐在一張硬邦邦的木板凳上,你一直換姿勢,怎麼坐都定不下來。整個字就是這種「安不下來」的感覺。把場景從身體換到心裡,就是第二個意思:那場對話、那個場合讓你一直坐立難安。

From the picture

心裡不自在

同樣是定不下來,只是不舒服的地方從身體換到心裡:擔心、害羞或尷尬讓你放鬆不了。

uneasy; awkward · adjective · B1

Feeling worried, shy, or embarrassed, so that you cannot relax.

不自在 / 尷尬

Also in this word

physically uncomfortable · adjective · B1

Not feeling nice on your body, or not letting you feel relaxed and at ease.

不舒服

原始詞典資料4 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。

uncomfortableadj/ʌnˈkʌmf.tə.bl̩/

  • 1

    Not comfortable; causing discomfort.

    • The class squirmed and fidgeted in the uncomfortable new chairs.
    • Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
  • 2

    Experiencing discomfort physically.

  • 3

    Experiencing discomfort mentally and emotionally.

    • Sharing a house with them made me uncomfortable.
  • 4

    Experiencing discomfort mentally and emotionally.

    • It was clear that the film's apparent celebration of psychopathy made many audience members uncomfortable.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。