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/ʌnˈpɑːpjələr/ · /ʌnˈpɒpjələ/
Not liked by most people. You can say it about a person, or about a plan, rule, choice, or decision that most people do not want or do not agree with.
不受歡迎的
比較級 more unpopular最高級 most unpopular
核心畫面
Put it in front of a crowd and most of the crowd turns away — they don't like it, don't want it, don't agree with it.
把一個人、一個決定、一條規定放到人群前面，大多數人搖頭走開。un- 是「不」，popular 的根是「眾人」——所以…更多收起
把一個人、一個決定、一條規定放到人群前面，大多數人搖頭走開。un- 是「不」，popular 的根是「眾人」——所以 unpopular 說的不是「壞」，而是「多數人不買單」。這裡有個關鍵：判斷的標準在群眾那邊，不在事情本身。一個政策可能是對的、必要的，但只要多數人反感，它就是 unpopular；一個人可能很正直，但同事都不喜歡他，他在辦公室裡就是 unpopular。原始詞典資料2 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。
unpopularadj
- 1
Lacking popularity.
- an unpopular opinion
- 2
Not liked or popular; disliked or ignored by the public.
- And as congressional Republicans were passing a very unpopular Trump agenda bill last month, Vice President JD Vance argued that its historic expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and new immigration enforcement provisions were so important that “everything else” was “immaterial.”
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。