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    In a way that shows bad judgment. If you do something unwisely, the thing you did was a bad choice — not because you were unlucky, but because a person thinking carefully would have seen the problem first. "He unwisely told his boss what he really thought." "She spent the money unwisely." It is the opposite of `wisely`, and it is softer and more polite than saying someone was stupid. When a teacher, a judge, or a newspaper says someone acted unwisely, they mean "that was a mistake, and you should have known better" — but they are saying it in a calm, adult way. That is exactly why it feels a bit formal. Friends talking do not usually say "you unwisely bought that phone"; they say "that was a dumb idea." You meet `unwisely` in writing, in news, in reports, in careful speech. A useful thing to notice: it very often comes with a hint of "and it went badly." You rarely hear "he unwisely bought the stock, and it made him rich." The word already leans toward a bad ending. One more habit worth seeing — it likes to sit right in front of the verb: "he unwisely agreed," "they unwisely ignored the warning." Putting it at the end ("he agreed unwisely") is possible but sounds heavier and older.

    不明智地、輕率地;沒經過深思熟慮就做(某事)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成un-(不)+ wisely(有智慧地)。wisely 又是 wise(有智慧的)+ -ly(副詞字尾)。所以整個字就是「不用智慧地」。這個結構從古英語 unwīslīċe 一路傳下來,一千多年來幾乎沒變過。

同家族的字

  • wisethe root — unwisely is simply its negative
  • wiselythe exact positive form; un- was added to it
  • wisdomsame wise root, with the noun ending -dom
  • unhappysame un- 'not' prefix at the front

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。

unwiselyadv

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    In an unwise manner; foolishly.

    • The scope of the new upgrade isn't just restricted to the station and junction. It has involved more than simply putting back what was unwisely taken away.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。