- 1無與倫比的、無人能敵的、首屈一指的。廣告和正式文章常見，口語很少用。
Better than anything else of its kind — so much better that nothing else is even in the running. A rival is someone competing with you, so `unrivalled` literally says: this thing has no rival. It is a strong word, stronger than 'excellent' or 'the best', because it does not just put something at the top of a list, it says the list has nobody else worth naming.
Because it is that strong, it lives in formal and advertising English: museum , company websites, book reviews, . 'Her knowledge of Tang poetry was unrivalled.' 'The hotel offers unrivalled views of the harbour.' You will rarely hear a friend say it about lunch. When people do use it casually, they are usually being a bit grand on purpose, sometimes joking.
It is normally followed by nothing at all, or by 'in' or 'for': unrivalled in Asia, unrivalled for comfort. British spelling doubles the l — `unrivalled`; American writing usually has `unrivaled`. Both are correct, and Taiwan textbooks lean British, so you will see two l's here more often.
組成un- (not) + rivalled (having a rival). The middle piece, 'rival', comes from Latin rivalis — originally people who shared the same stream (rivus, a river) and therefore quarrelled over the water. So the picture underneath is two farmers fighting over one channel.
原始詞典資料1 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。
unrivalledadj
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UK standard spelling of unrivaled.
- [T]his museum of the state of flux [Newmarket, Suffolk] has a climate unrivalled for the production of the British temperament. Not without a due proportion of that essential formative of character, east wind, it has at once the hottest sun, the coldest blizzards, the wettest rain, of any place of its size in 'the three kingdoms.'
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。