喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the weight that sits on someone when things are not right — sometimes deep and lasting, sometimes just the of 'I don't like how this is going'. The word covers that whole range, and in formal writing it can also be turned on the event itself: an unhappy choice of words, an unhappy coincidence.

可以想成：事情不對勁時壓在一個人身上的那份重量——有時候是很深、很久的低落，有時候只是「我不喜歡現在這樣」的皺眉。這…更多收起可以想成：事情不對勁時壓在一個人身上的那份重量——有時候是很深、很久的低落，有時候只是「我不喜歡現在這樣」的皺眉。這個字整段範圍都涵蓋；在比較正式的寫法裡，它還可以掉頭形容事情本身：不巧的、不妥當的。

From the picture

形容事情不巧、不妥

把這個字從人身上移到事情上：不是誰在難過，而是這件事本身選得不好、發生得不巧，讓結果變得尷尬。

unfortunate; unsuitable · adjective · A2

Used about a remark, situation, or event that is not suitable, not lucky, or not desirable.

不幸的；不恰當的

Also in this word

sad; unhappy · adjective · A2

Not happy; feeling sad, especially for a long time — used about people and periods of time.

不快樂；不開心

displeased; dissatisfied · adjective · A2

Not pleased with something, or worried about it.

不滿；不滿意

原始詞典資料6 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。

unhappyadj/ʌnˈhæpi/

  • 1

    Not happy; sad.

    • I am unhappy.
    • A moment of time may make us unhappy forever.
  • 2

    Not satisfied; unsatisfied.

    • An unhappy customer is unlikely to return to your shop.
  • 3

    datedNot lucky; unlucky.

    • The doomed lovers must have been born under an unhappy star.
    • The pointed shaft of the cart had entered the breast of the unhappy Prince like a sword, and from the wound his life's blood was spouting in a stream, and falling with a hiss into the road.
  • 4

    datedNot suitable; unsuitable.

    • The people, if they are not strangely bent Against our welfare, never will consent To this unhappy match, foreboding ill: What's it to us, if th' adverse nation will?

unhappynoun/ʌnˈhæpi/

  • 1

    A person who is not happy.

    • Leduc, as is true of many other unhappies, is largely a confessional writer: her subject is herself, and her gift is a driving, vivacious power that turns her incurable, inveterate unhappiness into a series of dramas […]

unhappyverb/ʌnˈhæpi/

  • 1

    To make or become unhappy; to sadden.

    • A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments, By you unhappied and disfigured clean
    • In the greate desire I have unto your grace's service, nothing has more unhappied me than the wante of opportunitie in which I might expresse the character of my harte that onlie takes of your impressions.

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。