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This is the adverb of uneconomical — it describes HOW something is done: in a way that money, fuel, or materials, so the cost the return. A factory can be run uneconomically. Land can be farmed uneconomically. A heater can burn fuel uneconomically. Because attach to verbs, you will nearly always find this word next to a verb of doing or running: operate uneconomically, run uneconomically, produce uneconomically. Be honest with yourself about how rare it is. It is a long word, it is formal, and it lives mostly in business reports, engineering documents, and government papers. In ordinary speech and in most student writing, people go around it — 'the plant was losing money', 'the old car uses too much petrol', 'it costs more than it's worth'. Those sound better than forcing the adverb in. There is also a small point worth knowing: you sometimes see it used to mean 'unprofitably' and sometimes 'wastefully', and those are not quite the same. A well-run charity spends money without profit, but not wastefully. Because of that slight blur, careful writers often prefer to say what they mean.
不符成本地、浪費地(做某事)。這是 uneconomical 的副詞,形容「做的方式」很浪費、不划算,多半出現在商業或工程文件裡;日常講話台灣人多半會直接說「這樣做太浪費了/根本不划算」。
組成uneconomical + -ly (the ending that turns an adjective into an adverb). You can also read it as un- + economically. Underneath sits economy, from Ancient Greek oikonomia — household management.
同家族的字
- economicallythe positive adverb — in a thrifty way (though it can also mean 'as regards the economy')
- uneconomicalthe adjective this comes from
- economythe root noun
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。
uneconomicallyadv
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In a manner that is not economical.
- So he went, uneconomically but expectantly, to the emergency room.
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。