核心畫面

Picture the lights going out: the person is still there, still breathing, but the line to the outside has been cut. Call their name and nothing comes back; afterwards there is no memory of those minutes at all.

可以想成燈被關掉的那一刻:人還在那裡,身體還在呼吸,但接收外面的那條線斷了——叫他不應、碰他沒反應,事後那段時間在他更多收起可以想成燈被關掉的那一刻:人還在那裡,身體還在呼吸,但接收外面的那條線斷了——叫他不應、碰他沒反應,事後那段時間在他腦子裡是空白的。這個字的各種用法都繞著「沒有接上意識」轉,差別只在斷掉的是整個人,還是心裡的某一小塊。

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。

unconsciousadj/ˌʌnˈkɒnʃəs/

  • 1

    Not awake; having no awareness (usually as the result of a head injury).

    • After the anesthetist administered the general anesthetic the patient was unconscious.
    • The firefighters put on breathing apparatus and managed to find the injured. In one case, they were almost too late - one of the bystanders who had helped with the initial rescue attempts had been reported missing. They were later found unconscious, having been overcome by the fumes.
  • 2

    human-sciencespsychologysciencesWithout directed thought or awareness.

    • My sudden fright was an unconscious response.
    • It was intolerable, he felt, to sit and eat in presence of that silent figure partly turned away from him, jotting down the different amounts on a bit of paper, and absorbed in that occupation as if unconscious of his presence.
  • 3

    hobbieslifestylesportsengaged in skilled performance without conscious control.

    • Sam is unconscious, filling it, drilling it from every conceivable angle. Lem is awful and Cooper seems confused. Josh shoots too often.
    • "I was unconscious," the basketball player gushes. "It seemed like everything I threw up toward the basket went straight in."

unconsciousnoun/ˌʌnˈkɒnʃəs/

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    human-sciencespsychologysciencesThat part of mind that is not consciously perceived.

    • Because the unconscious is outside time, it can perceive transformations beyond the limits of the ego.

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