- 1動亂、動盪、不安（如政治動盪、社會動盪）
Trouble in a society — people angry enough to protest, strike, riot, or fight. It is the standard news word for a country or region that is shaking but has not become a full war. You will almost always see it with a describing word in front: political unrest, social unrest, civil unrest, student unrest, labour unrest, ethnic unrest. It is uncountable — say 'unrest', not 'an unrest' or 'unrests'. Common partners: unrest breaks out, spreads, grows, continues; troops are sent in to quell or put down unrest. There is a quieter, older use too, meaning restlessness in a person's heart — 'a deep unrest in his soul' — but that is literary and rare, and students will meet the political meaning almost every time. Note the scale it suggests. Unrest is bigger than one demonstration and smaller than a war; it is the state of a whole population being and ready to act. News writers often prefer it because it is broad and does not commit to how violent things are.
From the word’s history
From Middle English unreste; un- + rest.
源自中古英文 unreste，就是 un- 加上 rest。
組成From Middle English unreste: un- (not) + rest. Literally 'no rest' — a society that cannot settle down. Its relatives across the sea say the same thing: Dutch onrust, German Unruhe.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
unrestnoun/ʌnˈɹɛst/
- 1
A state of trouble, confusion and turbulence, especially in a political context; a time of riots, demonstrations and protests.
- What words are these have fall’n from me? Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?
- Few expect the unrest to stop anytime soon. The government may hope to outflank the protest movement by painting them as unwilling to accept compromise, but even some of Lam’s allies have publicly said that the withdrawal was too little, too late.
- 2
Something that troubles or confuses; that which causes unrest.
- In her pyjamas, Sadie turned back the bedclothes to a single sheet, and settled down under it with a sigh of content; the languors of a body untroubled by mental unrests were a reward for the day's exertions.
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