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Wariness is the feeling of not fully trusting something, so you stay careful and keep watching. It is the noun that goes with wary. It is not fear — fear makes you run, wariness makes you slow down and look again. It is also not shyness. A person full of wariness may talk to you happily; they simply do not hand over their trust yet. You will often see it about people and about ideas: "a wariness of strangers", "public wariness about the new law", "he treated the offer with wariness". Notice the small words that follow it: wariness of somebody, or wariness about something. Because it names a feeling, it is normally uncountable — you say "her wariness", not "a wariness" (though writers sometimes do say "a certain wariness", which is fine). It often turns up when someone has been hurt before: past experience leaves wariness behind. That is a useful clue to its meaning — wariness usually has a history.
戒心、警覺、提防(不完全信任而保持小心的心態)
組成wary + -ness. The -ness ending turns an adjective into a noun naming the quality or state: kind → kindness, dark → darkness, wary → wariness. Note the spelling: the y becomes i before -ness.
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。
warinessnoun
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vigilance or the condition of being alert
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precautionary forethought to avoid harm or risk
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。