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The noun: the state of nothing much happening. This is the rarest member of the family by a wide margin — you may go years without meeting it. When writers do use it, they are usually treating the quiet itself as a thing worth talking about: "the uneventfulness of village life", "after weeks of uneventfulness, the news came as a shock", "there is a deep pleasure in uneventfulness". So unlike the adjective, which leans towards relief, the noun often leans towards a flat, empty, slightly weary feeling — the quiet has gone on long enough to be noticed and named. It is literary. In normal writing you would rearrange the sentence instead and say "nothing happened for weeks".
平淡無事(的狀態);這個名詞很少用,多出現在文學性的文章裡
組成uneventful (un- + event + -ful) + -ness, the ending that turns an adjective into a noun naming the quality — kind → kindness, happy → happiness.
同家族的字
- uneventfulthe adjective it is built from
- eventthe noun at its centre
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。
uneventfulnessnoun
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The quality of being uneventful.
- But maybe the uneventfulness was merely par for the course.
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。