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Given or sent to you when you never asked for it. Solicit means to ask for something, so unsolicited marks the thing as arriving from the other side: unsolicited advice, unsolicited emails, an unsolicited job application, unsolicited photos.
Given or sent to you when you never asked for it意思是別人主動給你或寄給你，而你根本沒要求過。Solicit means to ask for something solicit的意思是要求某樣東西，so unsolicited marks the thing as arriving from the other side所以unsolicited標示的是東西是對方主動送來的：unsolicited advice（沒人要求的建議）、unsolicited emails（未經請求的電子郵件）、an unsolicited job application（主動投遞的求職信）、unsolicited photos（沒人要求就傳來的照片）。
The word usually carries a shadow of — 'and I didn't want it either' — though it does not have to; a company can receive an unsolicited offer that turns out to be wonderful.
The word usually carries a shadow of annoyance這個字通常帶點惱人的意味——'and I didn't want it either'「而且我也不想要」——though it does not have to不過不一定要這樣；a company can receive an unsolicited offer that turns out to be wonderful一家公司也可能收到一個沒人要求、卻結果很棒的提議。
It is a formal, written word: you meet it in email rules, company policies, legal notices and news reports much more than in speech. In everyday talk people just say 'I didn't ask for it' or 'nobody asked'.
It is a formal, written word這是個正式的書面用字：you meet it in email rules, company policies, legal notices and news reports much more than in speech你在電子郵件規範、公司政策、法律通知和新聞報導裡遇到它的機會，遠比在口語裡多。In everyday talk日常對話裡people just say 'I didn't ask for it' or 'nobody asked'大家就直接說'I didn't ask for it'或'nobody asked'（我沒要求／沒人問）。
Two uses are worth knowing. First, unsolicited email is the standard polite name for spam. Second, unsolicited advice is a set phrase, often used with a smile before you give some anyway: 'Here's some unsolicited advice…'.
Two uses are worth knowing有兩種用法值得認識。First首先，unsolicited email is the standard polite name for spam unsolicited email是spam（垃圾郵件）比較禮貌的標準說法。Second第二，unsolicited advice is a set phrase unsolicited advice是個固定用語，often used with a smile before you give some anyway常常是笑著說完、然後還是照樣給建議：'Here's some unsolicited advice…'（給你一點沒人要求的建議……）。
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。
unsolicitedadj/ˌʌnsəˈlɪsɪtɪd/
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Not requested; neither welcomed nor invited.
- People have become very frustrated with unsolicited sales calls.
- In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
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。