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/ˌʌnˈkaɪnd/
Treating people, or talking about them, in a way that hurts or upsets them; nasty, unpleasant, or cruel.
不友善；刻薄
比較級 unkindermore unkind最高級 unkindestmost unkind
核心畫面
Kind means you think about how the other person will feel, and you act on that. Unkind is that care switched off: what you say or do lands on someone and hurts, and you either did not care that it would, or you meant it to. It is often not shouting — a single cool remark about someone's face or their work is enough.
kind 是你會先想到對方會有什麼感受，然後照那個感受去做事。unkind 可以想成把這份在意關掉了：你講出來的話、…更多收起
kind 是你會先想到對方會有什麼感受，然後照那個感受去做事。unkind 可以想成把這份在意關掉了：你講出來的話、做出來的事落在對方身上會痛，而你要嘛沒在意，要嘛就是故意的。它常常不是大吼大叫——一句冷冷地評論人家的長相或成果，就已經夠了。原始詞典資料3 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。
unkindadj/ʌnˈkaɪnd/
- 1
Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.
- Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms, Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart;
- Yet was it ne’er my Fate, from thee to find A Deed ungentle, or a Word unkind: When others curst the Auth’ress of their Woe, Thy Pity check’d my Sorrows in their Flow:
- 2
obsoleteNot kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.
- […] A Feauer is an vnkinde heate, that commeth out of the heart, and passeth into all the members of the bodye, and grieueth the working of the bodye.
- Crowes will not feed their yong til 9. daies old, Because their vnkind colour makes them doubt Them to be theirs;
- 3
obsoleteHaving no race or kindred; childless.
- O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind, She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind.
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。