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The adverb form: to do something — usually to stare, gaze or look — with your eyes open and your mind absent. 'She stared unseeingly at the screen' means the screen was in front of her and she took in none of it. It attaches to verbs of looking almost exclusively; you would not normally say someone walked or ate unseeingly, though a novelist might. This is even more than unseeing itself, and rather rare — writers often prefer the shorter 'stared unseeing at the wall', which does the same job. Meet it in fiction, recognise it, and do not feel you must use it.
茫然地、視而不見地(多修飾 stare、gaze 等「看」的動詞)。書面語,比 unseeing 更少見。
原始詞典資料1 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。
unseeinglyadv
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Without seeing.
- ‘She was a lush thrush,’ Windy murmured musingly, his eyes unseeingly on a bottle of stout.
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。