- 1未說出口的、心照不宣的
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.
From the word’s history
un- + spoken.
un-（未）加 spoken（說出的），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，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。
unspokenadj/ʌnˈspoʊkən/
- 1
Not spoken; not said.
- 2
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：
- unspeak
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。