核心畫面

One way to hold this word: picture something that has had extra layers added to it over time — coats of polish, clever features, small refinements. Now take the layers away. What is left is plain and works in the open, with nothing folded into it. That is the whole word. Put it on a machine and you get equipment with no extra features; put it on a person and you get someone who has not been around the fashionable, version of things. Neither reading says the thing is bad. Both say the layers are missing.

可以想成一樣東西被一層一層加過工:上了亮光、加了巧妙的功能、修過很多細節。現在把那些層次拿掉。剩下的就是素的、攤開來更多收起可以想成一樣東西被一層一層加過工:上了亮光、加了巧妙的功能、修過很多細節。現在把那些層次拿掉。剩下的就是素的、攤開來的,裡面沒有藏什麼。這個字就是這件事。放在機器上,是沒有那些多餘功能的設備;放在人身上,是沒接觸過那套時髦複雜東西的人。兩邊都沒有說「不好」,只說「那些層次不在」。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives the word as un- plus sophisticated, so the meaning is simply the absence of whatever sophisticated adds.

Wiktionary 記的是 un- 加上 sophisticated,所以它的意思就是「把 sophisticated 加上去的那些東西拿掉」。

packet Wiktionary etymology_text for unsophisticated (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1265769410:6500): From un- + sophisticated.

One branch

少了那些層次

兩個用法共用同一個動作:把後來加上去的層次拿掉,剩下素的那一面。差別只在被拿掉層次的是人還是東西。

adjective · B2

Not knowing much about modern, fashionable or complicated things, usually because you have not met them. It can describe a person, a group of people, or their taste.

不諳世故的/不講究的