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Not right for the season — used above all about weather. If the sun is burning in January, or you need a jacket in July, that weather is unseasonable. The word does not say 'bad' and it does not say 'good'; it says 'wrong for this time of year'. An unseasonable warm week in winter can be lovely, and people will still call it unseasonable. It is a slightly formal, written word — you meet it in weather reports, newspapers, and travel writing more than in talk between friends, who would just say 'it's really warm for December'. It has a second, older use about behaviour or timing: an unseasonable request, an unseasonable hour, meaning it comes at a bad or unsuitable moment. That use is old-fashioned now and mostly appears in books; if you hear the word today, weather is almost always what is meant. Note also that it is not the same as 'out of season', which is about food or sport or hotels, not about the sky.
不合時節的(天氣);反常的。注意:中文常說「氣候異常」「反常的天氣」,但 unseasonable 不帶「災難」的意思,只是說「跟這個季節該有的樣子不一樣」,可能是異常暖,也可能是異常冷。
組成un-(不)+ season(季節)+ -able(可…的、合…的)。這裡的 -able 不是「能夠」,而是「合乎、適合」:seasonable 本來就是「合乎時節的」,加上 un- 就變成「不合時節的」。
同家族的字
- seasonthe same season — the root the whole word is built on
- seasonablethe positive form: suitable for the time of year
- seasonalalso from season, but means 'happening at a certain season' (seasonal work, seasonal fruit) — a different idea
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。
unseasonableadj
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Not in accordance with the season.
- The snow in April was unseasonable.
- 2
Not at the right or fitting time.
- There is a mania in every class to be mistaken for what it is not. Many things innocent, nay, even graceful in themselves, become injurious and awkward by unseasonable imitation.
- The King looked sourly upon Lord Gro, and said, “Thy counsel is unacceptable and unseasonable. What lieth behind it?”
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。