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In a way that refuses to change, , or meet the other side halfway. If you do something uncompromisingly, you hold your position completely — no bending, no "okay, half of what I want is fine." It is the adverb of **, so it describes how someone acts, speaks, or how a thing is made. Two different flavours show up in real use, and students should feel the difference. About a person, it is often a criticism, or at least a warning: *he uncompromisingly refused to apologise* tells you he would not move an inch, and you can hear the speaker deciding whether to admire that or find it difficult. About a quality or a style, it is almost always praise: *uncompromisingly modern*, *uncompromisingly honest*, *an uncompromisingly simple design*. Here it means the thing is fully, purely that — the maker never watered it down to please anyone. That second use is very common in reviews, in writing about art, buildings, food, and music. Note the pattern: *uncompromisingly* + adjective is more frequent in that praising sense than *uncompromisingly* + verb. It is a formal-ish word — you meet it in newspapers, reviews, and serious writing far more than in everyday chat, where people just say *he wouldn't budge* or *she absolutely won't change her mind*.
毫不妥協地、絕不讓步地；用在形容風格時偏向褒義，指「徹底、純粹到底，不為了討好誰而打折扣」
組成uncompromising + -ly. Inside that: un- (not) + compromising (from compromise). Compromise itself is com- (together) + promise — originally both sides promising together to accept a judge's decision. So the picture is: not willing to make that joint promise, not willing to meet in the middle. The -ly turns the adjective into an adverb: it tells you HOW something is done.
同家族的字
- compromisethe base word — the meeting-in-the-middle that this word refuses
- promisethe -promise piece; com- + promise = promise together
- uncompromisingthe adjective this adverb is built directly from
原始詞典資料1 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。
uncompromisinglyadv/ʌnˈkɒmpɹəˌmaɪzɪŋli/
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In an uncompromising manner.
- But the tall tower, with its four- faced clock, rose as majestically and uncompromisingly as though the land had never been subjugated.
- They show that the "B1" 4-6-0s are just as speedy as the Stanier class "5" 4-6-0s of the former L.M.S.R., though like the Staniers they can be uncompromisingly "hard" engines to ride on.
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。