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/ʌnˈwɑːntɪd/ · /ʌnˈwɒntɪd/
Not wanted or not needed — either because you have no use for it any more, or because it came to you and you never asked for it.
不想要的；多餘的
核心畫面
Something sitting there that nobody has a place for: either it has outlived its use, or it arrived without anyone ever asking for it.
可以想成一樣東西就擺在那裡，卻沒有人要接手。un- 把 wanted（被想要的）整個翻掉，剩下的就是「沒人要」這個狀…更多收起
可以想成一樣東西就擺在那裡，卻沒有人要接手。un- 把 wanted（被想要的）整個翻掉，剩下的就是「沒人要」這個狀態。它可能是曾經有用、現在用不到了；也可能從頭到尾沒人開口要，它自己就來了。畫面裡東西一直在，缺的是那個想要它的人。原始詞典資料2 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。
unwantedadj/ʌnˈwɒntɪd/
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Not wanted; unwelcome.
- I rebuffed his unwanted advances.
- Once finances are stabilised, getting Crossrail finished is Byford's most obvious task. Late and over budget, it is causing unwanted headlines and friction between the London Mayor and the Department for Transport that both sides would rather live without.
unwantednoun/ʌnˈwɒntɪd/
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One who or that is not wanted; an undesirable.
- What slaves they had bought to carry the goods of the interior back to the coast were the unwanteds of the villages — the persons convicted of crime who would normally have been killed or banished from their communities […]
- There were no thoughts of hydrogen bombs or CBW or contraceptives or removing unwanteds. It was the old America, the old order restored, and the President saw that it was Good.
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。