核心畫面

Put two things side by side and they don't match. un- ('not') + like ('similar'): unlike marks the gap between two things that are not the same.

可以想成把兩樣東西並排放在一起,怎麼看都對不上。unlike 是 un-(不)加 like(相像),畫面比較像在標出更多收起可以想成把兩樣東西並排放在一起,怎麼看都對不上。unlike 是 un-(不)加 like(相像),畫面比較像在標出兩者之間『不一樣』的那道差距。

Three branches

和…不同(介系詞)

核心用法:拿一樣東西去比另一樣,點出兩者對不上的地方。四個小分支都是同一個『不相像』,只是比的對象和角度不同。

not like, different from · preposition · B2

Not at all like the person or thing mentioned.

不像 / 和…不同

彼此不一樣(形容詞)

同一個『不相像』的核心,只是換成形容詞:不再是介系詞去接一個對象,而是直接說那幾樣東西彼此 unlike。

different from each other · adjective · B2

If two or more things are unlike, they are not the same as each other.

不一樣的

取消讚(動詞)

這個 unlike 和上面的『不相像』沒有關係:它拆開是 un-(收回)加 like(按讚那個動詞),是社群媒體時代才出現的新用法。

unlike on social media · verb · B2

To click a button on a website to show that you no longer like something you liked before.

取消讚

原始詞典資料11 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。

unlikeadj詞源 1/ʌnˈlaɪk/

  • 1

    Not like; dissimilar (to); having no resemblance; unalike.

    • The brothers are quite unlike each other.
    • It may be conjectured with some confidence that it is very unlike what is called the Wild and sometimes the Woolly West, which I did not see.
  • 2

    Unequal.

    • They contributed in unlike amounts.
    • The earth is unlike the wire in size, resistance, and carrying capacity. Hence, telephone service calk for two wires of equal size, resistance, and carrying capacity.
  • 3

    archaicNot likely; improbable; unlikely.

unlikeprep詞源 1/ʌnˈlaɪk/

  • 1

    Different from; not in a like or similar manner.

    • The disgust I felt after watching last weekend's horror movie was unlike anything I had felt before.
    • Hal kept pace beside her in his ambling, arm-swinging way. He walked unlike other men she knew, like someone who had never carried a briefcase.
  • 2

    In contrast with; as opposed to.

    • Claudia hardly ever drinks beer or wine, unlike Phillip, for whom the bar is practically a second home.
    • Canadians can not bring a "national" piece of litigation, unlike what can be done in the United States.
  • 3

    Not typical of one's character or personality.

    • Being late is unlike him.

unlikenoun詞源 1/ʌnˈlaɪk/

  • 1

    Something that is not like something else; something different.

    • 2012, J. Bogen, J. E. McGuire, How Things Are: Studies in Predication and the History of Philosophy and Science If the beings are many, then they must be likes and unlikes. But this is impossible, for unlikes cannot be likes, and likes cannot be unlikes.

unlikeverb詞源 2/ʌnˈlaɪk/

  • 1

    To dislike.

    • The incounters of the times have been nothing favourable and prosperous for the invention of knowledge, so as it is not only the daintiness of the seed to take, and the ill mixture and unliking of the ground to nourish or raise this plant, but the ill season also of the weather, by which it hath been checked and blasted.
    • We are not insensible of the fact that these principles ever will be unliked by the men of tho world
  • 2

    To cancel a "like" action.

    • I unliked the post after I found out the author was racist.
    • Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like button. Toggling off the button results in unliking your previously liked item. Note that this is different from disliking something, since unliking simply returns you to a neutral state.
  • 3

    To cancel a "like" action.

    • My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. […] It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking" stern pinball entirely.

unlikenoun詞源 2/ʌnˈlaɪk/

  • 1

    The act of withdrawing one's like from a post on social media.

    • Getting an unlike for every 20 likes is common and not something you need to be losing sleep over.
    • On Facebook, users can also hide anyone in their network, including companies, from their News Feed, which is worse than an unlike, as brands cannot measure how many people still like them but have hidden their status updates […]

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。