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    Never wrong, never missing. If someone has an unerring sense of direction, they always know which way to go — not usually, always. It is a strong, word, and you use it about a skill or an instinct that works every single time: an unerring aim, an unerring eye for detail, an unerring instinct for what an audience wants. It is a bit formal and literary; you meet it in writing and in sports commentary far more than in daily talk. Two things are worth noticing. First, it almost always sits in front of a noun (an unerring shot), not after a verb — you would not normally say "his aim was unerring" in speech, though a writer might. Second, the noun it goes with is usually the ability itself (aim, eye, instinct, accuracy, judgement, sense), not the person. And honestly, people use it a little loosely: a player described as having unerring accuracy still misses sometimes. The word means "so reliable it feels like it never fails", and that is how listeners take it.

    百發百中的、從不失誤的(多用來形容準頭、直覺、判斷力)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成un- (not) + erring (making mistakes). To err is an old, rather formal verb meaning to be wrong or to make a mistake — so unerring is literally "not going wrong".

同家族的字

  • errthe verb inside it — to make a mistake
  • errorsame Latin root errare, to wander or stray; a mistake is a wandering off the right path
  • erroneoussame root — wrong, mistaken

原始詞典資料5 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。

unerringadj/ʌnˈɜːɹ.ɪŋ/

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    consistently accurate; not missing a target.

    • Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew.
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    2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, pages 630–1

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    2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, pages 630–1: As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.

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    2023 March 23, Phil McNulty, “Italy 1-2 England”, in BBC Sport

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    2023 March 23, Phil McNulty, “Italy 1-2 England”, in BBC Sport: Debutant Mateo Retegui was the beneficiary of poor work from Harry Maguire, whose failed attempt to close down the danger on the edge of the box allowed the Italians to shift the ball to the 23-year-old to drill an unerring finish past Jordan Pickford after 56 minutes.

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