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
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.
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