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Not fashionable, not cool, behind what young people are doing. 'Hip' means in touch with what is new and stylish; put un- in front and you get the opposite. This is a light, casual, slightly joking word. It is usually about taste rather than about clothes only — the music you like, the words you use, the phone you still carry, the way you dance at a wedding. It is much softer than 'ugly' or 'stupid'; calling something unhip says 'the cool people have moved on from this', not 'this is bad'. People often use it about themselves, : 'I know it's terribly unhip, but I still buy CDs.' Said that way it means 'I don't care what's in fashion,' and there is a little pride hiding in it. It can also describe a person who does not understand young culture at all — 'my unhip dad'. One honest note: 'hip' itself now sounds a bit dated, so 'unhip' has a gentle old-fashioned flavour to it, which is quietly funny. Younger speakers today are more likely to say 'cringe', 'not it', or just 'so 2010'. You will still meet 'unhip' in newspapers and in the speech of people over about forty.
不夠潮、跟不上流行、俗(帶點自嘲的輕鬆語氣,不是罵人難看)
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。
unhipadj
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Not hip; uncool, unfashionable.
- Fifteen years ago, on what remains as possibly the most unhip day of my life, my entire family, all nine of us, went to have our group portrait taken at a local photo salon.
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。