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Not planned or meant to happen - it describes a result that came about by accident, even if the action itself was on purpose. A new law might have 'unintended consequences' - side effects nobody meant to cause when they wrote it.
非蓄意的、意外造成的(並非原本計畫的結果,即使行為本身是有意的)
組成un- (not) + intend (to plan or mean to do) + -ed.
同家族的字
- intendthe base verb - unintended simply means 'not intended'
- intentionshares the same root
- intentionalthe near opposite, sharing the same root
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。
unintendedadj/ˌʌn.ɪnˈtɛn.dɪd/
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Not intended; unplanned
- The most powerful and least divisive way to decrease abortion is to reduce unintended pregnancy.
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。