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    Used about a man's face when he has not shaved, so there is short stubbly hair on his chin and cheeks. Notice it is not about having a beard. A man with a full beard is , and he may be very neat; unshaven means the hair is short, uneven, and — one, two, three days' growth. That is why the word so often carries a hint of a story: he was ill, he was travelling, he was up all night, he stopped caring for a while. Writers use it exactly for that: 'a tired, unshaven man in yesterday's shirt' tells you his whole week without saying anything else. It is not always negative, though — fashion changed, and a deliberately unshaven look can read as relaxed or handsome. The tone comes from the sentence around it. It is a normal, plain word, fine in speech and writing; in casual English people just as often say 'he hadn't shaved' or talk about 'stubble', the noun for those short hairs. English does not use it about women, and only about the face — an unshaven leg is possible but rare; people say 'hairy legs'.

    沒刮鬍子的、鬍渣未整理的(那種一兩天沒刮的樣子)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成un-(沒有)+ shaven(shave 的舊式過去分詞)。現代英語動詞用 shaved(He shaved this morning),但形容詞保留了 shaven 這個古老形式——clean-shaven(刮得乾乾淨淨)也是同一個。

同家族的字

  • shavethe root verb — shaven is its older past participle, kept alive in adjectives
  • clean-shaventhe direct opposite, built from the same shaven
  • unwrittensame recipe, un- plus an old -en past participle: unwritten rules
  • unspokensame recipe again: an unspoken agreement

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。

unshavenadj/ʌnˈʃeɪvən/

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    Not having shaved; not shaven; untrimmed.

    • He was an unshaven little man in a threadbare coat like a gaberdine, with his feet in slippers, and I thought him a harmless fool.
    • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
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    Unkempt.

    • The recruit's face was smooth but for a single almost imperceptible hair protruding from his chin. "Unshaven!" screamed the officer.

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