人站在現實世界外面
這一組把「房間外面」用在人身上。同樣是不在裡面,原因可以是不想進去,也可以是還沒進去,所以分成兩個意思。
adjective · C1
Not very interested in money or in owning things, so you do not spend your life trying to get them.
淡泊名利
One way to hold this word: think of the world as the everyday human business of money, deals, bargaining, and knowing how things get done. means inside that room. The un- puts someone, or something, outside it. From outside the room you can be a person who never wanted what is in there, a person who has not yet walked in, or a thing that seems to have come from somewhere else entirely.
The source records the word simply as un- + worldly, so the modern meanings all sit on top of that plain build: not of the world.
來源把這個字記成 un- + worldly。所以今天的三個意思,其實都疊在同一個很直白的組合上:不屬於這個世界。往人身上走,就是不在乎錢或還沒見過世面;往東西上走,就是不像人間該有的。
Wiktionary entry 'unworldly' (kaikki snapshot 3f6f69a190036ae4): "From un- + worldly."
Two branches
人站在現實世界外面
這一組把「房間外面」用在人身上。同樣是不在裡面,原因可以是不想進去,也可以是還沒進去,所以分成兩個意思。
adjective · C1
Not very interested in money or in owning things, so you do not spend your life trying to get them.
淡泊名利
東西不像這個世界的
同一個「在外面」的畫面,這次不放在人身上,而放在一樣東西、一個地方、一道光或一種聲音上。它不是態度,是感受:美得或靜得不像日常會有的。
adjective · C1
So unusual, still, or beautiful that it does not seem to come from the ordinary world.
不似人間