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In a way that does not match how things really are. It is the adverb of unrealistic, and it almost always sits in front of an adjective describing an amount or a level: unrealistically high, unrealistically low, unrealistically cheap, unrealistically fast, unrealistically thin. "The price was unrealistically low." "The deadline is unrealistically short." When you use it, you are not just measuring something — you are judging it. You are saying: this number, this hope, this picture of the world could not actually happen, and someone has failed to see that. So there is usually a quiet criticism inside it. If you say a company set unrealistically high targets, you are saying the managers were foolish or dishonest, not merely optimistic. It also gets used a lot when talking about pictures and media — models in advertisements are described as unrealistically thin, films as showing unrealistically perfect lives. Here it carries a small note of complaint on behalf of ordinary people. It can attach to a verb too ("he plans unrealistically"), but that sounds stiff; the natural home of this word is right before an adjective. It is a long word and a slightly formal one — in everyday speech people are more likely to say "way too high" or "that's never going to happen."
不切實際地、不實際地(多用在「高得離譜」「低得不合理」這種評價上)
組成un- (not) + real + -ist- + -ic (forming the adjective realistic) + -ally (making it an adverb). Real came into English from Old French reel, from Late Latin realis, built on Latin res meaning "a thing, a matter." So at the bottom of this long word is the idea of thing-ness: what is real is what is actually a thing in the world. Realistic then means "fitting the real," and unrealistically means "in a way that does not fit the real."
原始詞典資料1 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。
unrealisticallyadv
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In an unrealistic manner.
- “It’s the Lake Wobegon effect,” said Dr. Daniel P. Sulmasy, senior author and a professor of medicine and ethics at the University of Chicago. “If you have more than 50 percent of patients saying their chances are better than average of avoiding some harm or obtaining some benefit, they are being unrealistically optimistic because you can’t say that most people are above average.”
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。