地方:沒有被開發、破壞
沒碰到它的是工程、道路、招牌和人潮,所以這個地方還維持著很久以前的樣子。
adjective · C1
Used about a place that is still beautiful because it has stayed much the same for a long time, with few new buildings, roads or crowds to change it.
未被破壞的;保有原貌的
Think of something that the usual damage simply never reached. Time passed, and the things that normally change a place or a person — building work, crowds, money, attention — either stayed away or arrived and made no mark. So the word praises by naming an absence: nothing was added, nothing was taken, it is still what it was. There is often a quiet sense of luck in it, and sometimes of something worth protecting.
Wiktionary gives unspoiled as un- plus spoiled. The whole meaning sits in that negative prefix: it names what did not happen, and English spoil covers both damaging a place and indulging a person, which is why the one word reaches both.
Wiktionary 記載 unspoiled 由 un-(沒有)加上 spoiled 組成。整個意思就住在那個否定的字首裡:它講的是「沒有發生的事」。而英文的 spoil 同時可以是「弄壞一個地方」和「寵壞一個人」,所以同一個字才伸得到兩邊。
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地方:沒有被開發、破壞
沒碰到它的是工程、道路、招牌和人潮,所以這個地方還維持著很久以前的樣子。
adjective · C1
Used about a place that is still beautiful because it has stayed much the same for a long time, with few new buildings, roads or crowds to change it.
未被破壞的;保有原貌的
人:沒有被名利改變
同一個畫面換成人:這次沒碰到他的是錢、名氣和關注。spoil 本來就有「寵壞小孩」這條路,所以這個用法不是比喻,而是走另一半的字義。
adjective · C1
Used about a person who has not changed for the worse because of what has happened to them — money, fame or success has not made them proud, demanding or hard to be with.
沒有被名利改變的;沒被寵壞的