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/ʌnˈfer/ · /ʌnˈfeə/
not right, because people are not all treated in the same way or do not all get the same chance.
不公平的
比較級 more unfair最高級 most unfair
核心畫面
Picture a set of scales that does not sit level: two people are in the same situation, but one is handed more than the other, or one is given a chance the other never gets. Unfair names that tilt — the rule was applied to them differently.
可以想成一副沒有平的天秤:兩個人明明處在同樣的位置,可是一邊拿到的比較多,或是一邊有機會、另一邊連機會都沒有。unf…更多收起
可以想成一副沒有平的天秤:兩個人明明處在同樣的位置,可是一邊拿到的比較多,或是一邊有機會、另一邊連機會都沒有。unfair 指的就是那個歪掉的角度——同一套規則落在不同人身上時,被套用得不一樣。所以它談的往往不是結果好不好,而是過程有沒有一致:同樣的工作卻拿不同的薪水,同樣的錯卻只有一個人被處罰。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。
unfairadj/ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/
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Not fair.
- It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
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archaicrareNot fair.
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archaicobsoleteNot fair.
- 4
archaicNot fair.
unfairverb/ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/
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obsoleteto make ugly
- Those hours that with gentle work did frame / The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell / Will play the tyrants to the very same / And that unfair which fairly doth excel.
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。