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Unremitting means going on and on without ever easing off. It is a strong, formal word, and its heart is the idea of never letting up — not for a moment, not even a little. Unremitting rain falls all day and all night. Unremitting pressure never eases. Unremitting pain gives you no good hours. It works with hard, things: unremitting heat, unremitting noise, unremitting criticism, unremitting toil. There is one turn worth knowing: when it goes with effort or hard work, the feeling flips to admiration. "Her unremitting hard work paid off" is a compliment — she never let up either. So the word itself only says "never eases"; whether that is awful or depends on what it is describing. This is a book-and-newspaper word. In speech people say "non-stop", "it just doesn't let up", "day after day". If you write unremitting in a friendly email it will sound like you swallowed a leader column. Compare it with : says there is no break of a different kind inside the bad thing, while unremitting says the thing never or pauses. They overlap a lot, and honestly many writers use them as if they were the same.
持續不斷、never let up 的那種不間斷;如 unremitting rain(下個不停的雨)、unremitting pressure(壓力從沒鬆過)、unremitting effort(不懈的努力,這裡是褒義)。
組成un- (not) + remitting, from the verb remit. Remit once meant to send back, and from that, to let something ease off or slacken — a meaning now rare in everyday English but still alive inside this word. So unremitting = never slackening. Note there is no verb "unremit"; the word was built whole, first seen around 1728.
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。
unremittingadj/ˌʌnɹɪˈmɪtɪŋ/
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Incessant; never slackening.
- These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.
- 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467. We can achieve this god‐likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.
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。