喜樂美語
  1. 1不公正的、不義的（多用於法律、制度、統治者、戰爭這類有道德分量的事）

    Not fair; treating people in a way they do not deserve. It is a serious, rather formal word, and it carries moral weight — you use it about laws, systems, rulers, punishments, wars and decisions, not about small everyday . If a friend takes the last piece of cake, that is not 'unjust', it is just unfair or a bit mean. But a law that punishes one group of people more heavily than another is unjust. The word points at a wrong done by those with power, which is why it appears so often in history books, court judgements, protests and religion. It is usually used before a noun ('an unjust law') or after 'be' ('the sentence was unjust'). 'Unjust to someone' is the pattern when you name who suffers. There is also a set phrase, 'unjust enrichment', a legal term for keeping money you had no right to.

From the word’s history

un- + just.

由 un-「不」加上 just 組成。

Wiktionary

組成un- (not) + just. Careful — this 'just' is not the little word meaning 'only'; it is the older adjective meaning 'fair, right, according to law', from Latin iustus, which comes from ius, 'law, right'.

同家族的字

  • justicesame Latin ius — fairness, or the legal system itself
  • justifysame root — to show that something is right
  • judgefrom Latin iudex, 'one who speaks the law' — the same ius inside
  • injusticethe noun for an unjust act, built on the same root with in- instead of un-

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

unjustadj/ʌnˈd͡ʒʌst/

  • 1

    Not fair, just or right.

    • The solution was very unjust.
    • This ſtraunge vnwelcome and vnhappie newes, Of theſe vnnaturall Rebels and vniust, That threaten wracke vnto this wretched Land, Aye me affrights my womans mazed minde, Burdens my heart, and interrupts my ſleepe, […]

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