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Still working properly; not damaged, not . The word is used about abilities and functions rather than about objects — you talk about unimpaired vision, unimpaired hearing, unimpaired judgment, unimpaired movement. It is formal, and it belongs to medicine, law, and careful reports. A doctor that a patient's memory is unimpaired; a court asks whether a driver's judgment was unimpaired at the time. Behind the word there is nearly always a reason to worry — an accident, an illness, alcohol, old age — and the word answers that worry with "no, it is still fine". That is worth noticing, because it explains why you would not say a new bicycle is unimpaired. Nothing has threatened it yet.
未受損的;功能正常的。醫療報告常見「(功能)無受損」「未見損傷」;日常講話會直接說「還是好的」「沒有受影響」。
組成un- "not" + impaired "damaged, made weaker". Impaired comes from an older word meaning "to make worse" — the same idea hides in the word "pair" nowhere near here, so do not be misled by the spelling.
同家族的字
- impairthe verb it is built on: to weaken or damage
- impairmentthe noun: a hearing impairment
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。
unimpairedadj
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Not impaired.
- While the United States remained a non-belligerent speeds continued unimpaired, despite the increasingly dense occupation of main-line tracks, but the entry of the U.S.A. into the war in December, 1941, made its effect felt almost immediately.
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。