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Your eyes are open, but nothing is registering. Unseeing describes a person, or more often a person's eyes or stare, that is pointed at the world while the mind is somewhere else entirely — lost in thought, in shock, in grief, or simply exhausted. Someone staring unseeing out of a train window is looking straight at the fields and taking in none of them. This is a literary word: novels and careful writing use it, ordinary conversation does not. If you said it at a dinner table it would sound like you were reading aloud from a book. It is not a medical word for blindness, though writers sometimes stretch it that way; a blind person's eyes might be called unseeing in poetry, but the ordinary word for that is simply 'blind'. Note the shape it usually takes: 'her unseeing eyes', 'he sat unseeing', 'staring unseeing at the wall'.
視而不見的、目光空洞的。中文的「視而不見」很貼近:眼睛看著,心思根本不在那裡。文學用語,日常口語不會這樣講。
原始詞典資料3 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。
unseeingadj詞源 1
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Blind.
- The cave frog's eyes have devolved into unseeing lumps.
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Not aware of what is visible.
- Although his eyes were open, the sleepwalker headed, with unseeing eyes, towards the danger.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。