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Think of running your hand over a surface that should be flat but isn't — a stone path where one slab sticks up and the next one dips down. Nothing is level with anything else. 'Even' means everything sits at the same height; 'uneven' takes that away. Every other use of the word keeps the same feeling and just changes what is being compared: the speed of a heartbeat, the size of two shares, the quality of different chapters in a book.
可以想成用手摸過一片本來該是平的表面，結果並不平——石板路上這一塊凸起、下一塊凹陷，沒有一處跟旁邊等高。even 是…更多收起
可以想成用手摸過一片本來該是平的表面，結果並不平——石板路上這一塊凸起、下一塊凹陷，沒有一處跟旁邊等高。even 是「處處一樣高、一樣齊」，uneven 就是把那份整齊拿掉。這個字的其他用法都保留同一種感覺，只是換了比較的對象：心跳的快慢、兩邊分到的多少、一本書各章的好壞——只要「各處不一致」，就用得上 uneven。原始詞典資料6 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。
unevenadj/ʌnˈivən/
- 1
Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
- 2
Not level or smooth.
- 3
Not uniform.
- I've spent hours on overcrowded trains, and time on ones which were almost empty, because the recovery [from COVID] has been uneven.
- 4
Varying in quality.
- Even white activists who lacked a thoroughgoing anti-racist consciousness or were uneven in their understanding saw unity in the struggle against all forms of oppression as key.
- 5
raremathematicssciencesOdd.
unevenverb/ʌnˈivən/
- 1
To make uneven.
- Initially it nestled among the dozens of Indian mounds that unevened the earth near the river until they were leveled to accommodate commerce.
- First, of course, the war reduced the white male, mostly young adult, population by more than a quarter-million, unevening the sex ratio and connubial and other opportunities for women for perhaps a generation.
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。