喜樂美語
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    /ˌʌnɪkˈspektɪd/

    Surprising because you did not think it would happen.

    意外的／出乎意料的

    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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核心畫面

You can picture 'expect' as having a slot ready in your mind for what's coming; 'unexpected' is when something walks in through a door you never set a place at — it surprises you precisely because you had prepared no slot for it.

可以想成：expect 是你心裡先替某件事「留了一個位子」；unexpected 就是有東西從一扇你根本沒防備的門走…更多收起可以想成：expect 是你心裡先替某件事「留了一個位子」；unexpected 就是有東西從一扇你根本沒防備的門走進來——因為你事先沒替它留位子，所以才會嚇你一跳、覺得意外。

原始詞典資料2 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。

unexpectedadj/ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/

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    Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.

    • She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
    • Certainly unexpected. The P[awn] is overprotected to the best taste of a Nimzowitsch devotee, and there seems to be no drastic weakness in White's camp to justify this intrusion.

unexpectednoun/ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/

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    rareSomeone or something unexpected.

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。