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Describes a person's attitude, faith, loyalty, obedience or trust when they accept something completely and never ask whether it is right. The word points inward, at the believer, not at the thing believed: unquestioning obedience, unquestioning loyalty, unquestioning faith, unquestioning support. Here is the honest part, and it is the part usually miss. The word sits slightly on the critical side. Even when the sentence looks like praise — 'he gave the company his unquestioning loyalty' — there is often a shadow in it, a suggestion that this person handed over their own judgement. Writers use it about soldiers following orders, about followers of a strong leader, about children trusting adults. When someone genuinely wants to praise loyalty, they more often say 'complete' or 'total' or 'fierce'. Not always, though — 'unquestioning' can be quite tender about a child's or a dog's trust, where nobody expects judgement in the first place. It has only one form of use: it goes in front of a noun. You do not say 'his loyalty was unquestioning' very often; the natural sentence is 'his unquestioning loyalty'.
毫不懷疑的、不加思索就接受的(多指服從、忠誠、信仰)
組成un-(不)+ questioning(會質疑的,question 的現在分詞)=「不會提出疑問的」。用現在分詞是因為它形容的是一個人「持續的態度」,不是一件已經發生的事。
同家族的字
- unquestionedsame stem, but describes the belief nobody challenged, not the person who never challenges
- questioningthe opposite attitude — a questioning look, a questioning mind
- unquestioninglythe adverb built from this word
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。
unquestioningadj
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Believing without question; having absolute loyalty.
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derogatoryNaive, blind, uncritical.
- unquestioning faith
- Man's awareness of himself, the resulting realization and fear of his own mortality, cast him out of unquestioning eternity into time-consciousness -- into the disorientation of being able to reflect but not to totally understand
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。