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Of a belief, a loyalty, a support or a purpose: completely steady, never turning aside, whatever happens. To swerve is what a car does when it suddenly turns to avoid something in the road — so unswerving is the picture of a line that never bends, not even under pressure. That picture is the whole meaning: the point is not just that the belief is strong, but that there were reasons to turn and the person did not. It is a formal, word, most at home in speeches, , news reports and formal thanks. It goes before a noun and pairs with a short list of words again and again: unswerving loyalty, unswerving support, unswerving faith, unswerving commitment, unswerving devotion, unswerving belief. "Her unswerving support during those years kept the family together." A close relative is "unwavering", which is more common in modern writing and means much the same; if you are unsure which to use, "unwavering" is the safer choice. One quiet edge: because it praises never changing your mind, the word can also be used with a raised — "his unswerving faith in his own genius" is not a compliment.
堅定不移的、始終如一的(正式用語,常搭配 loyalty/support/faith)
組成un- (not) + swerving, from swerve, to turn suddenly aside. So: never turning aside.
同家族的字
- swervethe verb inside it — to turn sharply aside
- unwaveringbuilt the same way from waver, and used in the same places
- unflinchingsame un- + -ing pattern: not pulling back from something hard
原始詞典資料1 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。
unswervingadj
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Not deviating; not yielding or straying or varying.
- They followed the ritual with unswerving faith.
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。