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/ʌnˈhelpfəl/
Not giving the help that someone needs in a situation, and sometimes making the situation harder or worse.
幫不上忙；幫倒忙
核心畫面
Someone reaches out for help and the door stays shut. A picture you can hold: a person is stuck and asks; the other side gives nothing useful — and sometimes the empty answer leaves them worse off than before they asked.
有人卡住了、伸手求援，而對方那一邊什麼也沒給出來。un- 是「否」，help 是「幫」，所以 unhelpful 先…更多收起
有人卡住了、伸手求援，而對方那一邊什麼也沒給出來。un- 是「否」，help 是「幫」，所以 unhelpful 先是「該幫的時候沒幫上」。但這個字比單純的「沒幫到」再多一層：那個空掉的回應本身常常會讓事情更難處理——你原本只是卡住，被這樣回一句之後，反而還要多花力氣繞路。英文裡說 an unhelpful reply、an unhelpful attitude，指的就是這種「不但沒接住你，還讓局面更僵」的感覺。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。
unhelpfuladj/ʌnˈhɛlpfəl/
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Not providing help or assistance; not helpful.
- Even if you are genuinely a victim, having a victim mentality is unhelpful because it is disempowering. ― Ned Kelly, "NFL Players Are Setting A Bad Example By Teaching Black People To Encourage Victimhood", 8th of October 2017
- "Did you know, beloved, at the last, in that intolerable heat, in that moment of supreme anguish, that he is unlistening, unhelpful as the stars, that you cried not to him?"
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。