1. 1未分化的;混同不分的(生物學上「未分化細胞」是固定譯法;商業文章裡指「毫無區隔、跟別家沒兩樣」)

    Undifferentiated describes something that has no clear separate parts, or that has parts you cannot tell apart from one another. It is the negative of "differentiated", so it always points at a difference that is missing. Two common ways it works: (1) a mass or group that has never been split up — an undifferentiated crowd, an undifferentiated block of time, an undifferentiated grey sky, where nothing stands out from anything else; (2) things that are technically separate but look or feel the same, so you cannot sort them — "the shops all sell the same undifferentiated products", meaning nothing makes one different from another. In biology it has a precise use: an undifferentiated cell is a young cell that has not yet become a particular kind of cell (a muscle cell, a nerve cell). Stem cells are undifferentiated. In business writing it is nearly an insult — an undifferentiated product has nothing special, so people buy it only on price. The word is formal and long; you meet it in textbooks, science writing, and business reports far more than in speech. In everyday talk people just say "all the same" or "all mixed together". Note it describes a state, not a fault of the person looking — that is a different word (see "").

組成un- (not) + differentiated. "Differentiated" comes from differ — to be unlike — so differentiate is to make or see things as unlike each other. The -ed makes it a describing word: not made different, not told apart.

同家族的字

  • differentsame differ- root: not the same
  • differencesame differ- root: the gap between two things
  • differentiatethe verb this word is the negative past participle of
  • deferboth from Latin ferre 'to carry'; differ = carry apart, defer = carry away to a later time

原始詞典資料3 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。

undifferentiatedadj

  • 1

    Not differentiated; not different; alike.

    • If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall within it.
  • 2

    biologynatural-sciencesNot differentiated; not different; alike.

    • This further exacerbated the diagnostic challenge posed by undifferentiated febrile illness during a “twindemic” of both COVID-19 and dengue, as both illnesses could potentially present with febrile syndromes.
  • 3

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesNot differentiated; not different; alike.

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