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Not having official written records or papers proving something. It's most often used for people living in a country without the legal papers that allow them to be there - "undocumented immigrants" or "undocumented workers." It's also used more generally for anything not written down anywhere, like an "undocumented feature" in a computer program that nobody officially explained.
無證件、無合法文件(尤指移民身分);未被記錄下來的(如系統中未說明的功能)。
組成Un- (not) + documented (having documents/records).
同家族的字
- documentthe base word - a document is the official paper; undocumented means without one
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。
undocumentedadj
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Lacking instructions or reference material.
- Undocumented software can be very difficult to learn to use.
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Not having official documents that provide identification, authorization, etc.
- On arrival from a foreign port, undocumented foreign-built vessels, if laden with goods, wares or merchandise, may, with their cargoes, be subject to forfeiture.
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Not having official documents that provide identification, authorization, etc.
- undocumented immigrant
- One day after class I was talking to them about college, and one of my top students raised his hand and said he wasn’t sure he could go because he’s undocumented. He didn’t know if they’d let him in.
undocumentednoun
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informalSynonym of undocumented immigrant.
- Although the first generation is likely to have greater fluency than the undocumenteds, the controversy over bilingual education attests to the persistence of language difficulties.
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。