- 1aB2
/ˌʌnrɪˈlaɪəbəl/
not able to be trusted or depended on; you cannot be sure a person will do what they say, or that a machine or system will work well.
不可靠的；靠不住的
比較級 more unreliable最高級 most unreliable
核心畫面
Picture leaning on something and finding it will not hold your weight — sometimes it does, sometimes it does not, and you cannot tell which day is which. The word is about that inconsistency: not always bad, just not something you can count on.
可以想成：你把重量靠上去，卻發現它撐不住——有時候撐得住，有時候撐不住，而且你事先不知道是哪一天。這個字的重點在「不…更多收起
可以想成：你把重量靠上去，卻發現它撐不住——有時候撐得住，有時候撐不住，而且你事先不知道是哪一天。這個字的重點在「不穩定」：不一定是壞，只是不能指望。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。
unreliableadj/ˌʌn.ɹɪˈlaɪ.ə.bl̩/
- 1
Not reliable.
- Tell one another whether any one of you has ever heard me discuss such questions briefly or at length; and then you will realize that the other popular reports about me are equally unreliable.
- The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning.
unreliablenoun/ˌʌn.ɹɪˈlaɪ.ə.bl̩/
- 1
One who or that which cannot be relied upon.
- His employment by the leading papers in Chicago was intermittent, as he was classed among the unreliables. One could never tell when he was going to get drunk.
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。