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Not visited by many people. You use it for places: an unfrequented beach, an unfrequented mountain path, an unfrequented corner of the old town. The idea is not that the place is empty forever, but that people rarely go there — so it feels quiet, and often peaceful or slightly lonely. The feeling depends on what you are describing. In travel writing it is usually a compliment: you have found somewhere lovely that the crowds have not ruined. In a story about walking home at night it turns — an unfrequented street is one where nobody would hear you shout. This is a formal, rather old-fashioned, word. Real people planning a trip say 'quiet', 'off the beaten track', or 'not touristy'. You are most likely to meet 'unfrequented' in novels, older travel books, and careful writing, which is exactly why it carries that slightly literary, atmospheric colour. Note the verb it comes from: 'to frequent' a place means to go there often. That verb also sounds formal, and it is stressed differently from the everyday adjective 'frequent'.
人跡罕至的、很少有人去的。偏書面、文學的用法;一般口語會說 quiet 或「沒什麼觀光客」。
組成un- (not) + frequented (visited often, from the verb frequent). Literally: not gone to often.
同家族的字
- frequentthe root — as a verb, to visit a place often; as an adjective, happening often
- frequentlyoften, from the same root
- frequencyhow often something happens, same root
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。
unfrequentedadj
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Not frequented.
- This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns:
- As my Walks are all by Night, I am pretty secure in this wild, and unfrequented Place from meeting any Company.
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。