核心畫面

Think of a warning sign on a building: something about this place or thing can hurt you. Whatever safe means — nothing here will harm you — unsafe simply takes that away. The danger does not have to be certain, only real enough that a careful person would not go in.

可以想成一塊掛在門口的警告牌:這個地方、這個東西,有可能傷到人。safe 的意思是「不會有事」,前面加了 un- 就更多收起可以想成一塊掛在門口的警告牌:這個地方、這個東西,有可能傷到人。safe 的意思是「不會有事」,前面加了 un- 就把那份保證整個抽掉。它不必然表示一定會出事,而是說危險是真實存在的,謹慎的人不會就這樣走進去。

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。

unsafeadj詞源 1/ʌnˈseɪf/

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    Not safe (various senses); dangerous.

    • For much the same reasons that safe languages are preferred over unsafe languages, these powerful---but unsafe---capabilities in Java should be restricted.
    • "RMT has made it clear that our members have a right to refuse to work in unsafe conditions, and the union will be closely monitoring the situation. [...]"

unsafeverb詞源 2/ʌnˈseɪf/

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    To remove the safety from (a weapon).

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。