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Unspoken describes something that is never said out loud, but that everyone understands or feels anyway — an unspoken rule that nobody wrote down but everyone follows, or unspoken tension between two people who both know something is wrong but don't talk about it.
未說出口的、心照不宣的
組成un- (not) + spoken (past form of the verb 'speak')
同家族的字
- speakunspoken is simply un- + spoken, meaning not spoken out loud
原始詞典資料3 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。
unspokenadj/ʌnˈspoʊkən/
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Not spoken; not said.
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Not formally articulated or stated; implicit or understood.
- The unspoken rule is to start a new pot of coffee when it is empty.
- I don't think we could ever have a good parent-son relationship as long as there is something as important as this that I'm hiding from you, and you (probably) are wondering about vaguely, but everything remains on a silent unspoken level.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。