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Of a room, flat, or house: with no furniture in it. This is above all a renting word. In English-speaking countries, for flats say "" or "unfurnished," and the difference is money: an unfurnished flat is cheaper because you must bring your own bed, table, sofa, wardrobe. What counts as "unfurnished" varies by country and can surprise people — in Britain an unfurnished flat usually still has a and often a fridge, and always has kitchen , but nothing else; in some places it means truly bare, right down to no light fittings. So it is worth asking, not assuming. There is also a much older, wider sense that you will meet in older books: "unfurnished" once meant unequipped or unprepared for something in general — a mind unfurnished with knowledge, a soldier unfurnished for battle. That use is rare today and sounds old-fashioned, but it explains why the word exists: "" originally meant to supply or equip with anything at all, and only later narrowed to furniture.
未附傢俱的(租屋廣告上的「空屋」)
組成un-(不、沒有)+ furnished(已配備傢俱的),furnished 是動詞 furnish(配備、供應)的過去分詞。furnish 本來是「供應、裝備」的意思,後來才窄化成專指傢俱。
同家族的字
- furnituresame furnish- root; the things you equip a room with
- furnishthe base verb — to supply or equip
- unfinishednot related in meaning, but often confused with it in spelling
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。
unfurnishedadj詞源 1/ʌnˈfɜːnɪʃt/
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Not furnished; having no furnishings.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。