1. 1未經請求的、主動寄來(給予)的(如垃圾信件、沒人問你卻給的建議)

    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. 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. 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'. 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…'.

From the word’s history

From un- + solicited: not asked for.

un-(未)加 solicited(被請求的):沒人要求就來的。

Wiktionary

組成un-(不)+ solicited(被請求的;solicit = 請求、招攬)。

同家族的字

  • solicitthe base verb — to ask for
  • unwantedsame un- 'not' prefix on a describing word

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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.

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