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Untimely describes something that happens at a bad, wrong, or too-early time. An 'untimely death' means someone died too young, before their expected time. An 'untimely interruption' happens at exactly the wrong moment, like a phone ringing during an important meeting.
不合時宜的；(死亡)過早的
組成un- (not) + timely (at the right/good time). So it literally means 'not at the right time.'
同家族的字
- timelythe base word - untimely is simply 'not timely'
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。
untimelyadj/ʌnˈtaɪmli/
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At an inopportune time.
- untimely remarks
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Early; premature.
- an untimely death
- The heroes of literary as well as civil history have been very often no less remarkable for what they have suffered, than for what they have atchieved^([sic]); and volumes have been written only to enumerate the miseries of the learned, and relate their unhappy lives, and untimely deaths.
untimelyadv/ʌnˈtaɪmli/
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Prematurely.
- Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb / Untimely ript.
- They light fires under fruit trees to keep the fruit from falling untimely.
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。