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Undismayed means not upset, not discouraged, not thrown off course by something that went wrong. It is a quiet word of praise for someone who keeps going. To be dismayed is to feel that sinking, disappointed shock when a plan collapses or bad news arrives; undismayed is standing there and not sinking. Because of that, it needs a nearby to make sense — the sentence usually names one: "Undismayed by the rain, they carried on with the picnic", "She was undismayed by her first rejection and sent the story out again the next week". The two shapes you will see are "undismayed by + the bad thing" and "remained undismayed". It is a formal, literary word and quite rare — you meet it in biographies, , and adventure stories more than anywhere else, and it has a slightly old-fashioned, gently heroic ring. Everyday English says "not put off", "didn't let it get to her", "took it in her stride". Notice it is milder than fearless: an undismayed person may well have felt the blow, but did not let it stop them. That small distance from bravery is what makes it feel humble rather than .
不氣餒的、沒被打擊到的(多用書面語,帶點「屢敗屢戰」的味道)
組成un- (not) + dismayed. Dismay came through Old French from a root shared with the word may — the old sense of may being to have power or be able. To dismay someone was to take away their power to act; so undismayed is: still able to act.
同家族的字
- dismaythe verb and noun this is the negative of: sudden discouragement
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。
undismayedadj
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Not dismayed; calm and undaunted.
- But was not that the cobweb which she had wrecked? Had she without knowing turned back, or was it another web? Calmly, and again undismayed, the spider was industriously respinning in repair.
- Undismayed he continued to flail with the broken half of it, denting many a helmet[.]
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。