- 1出於好意的（用來形容話、禮物、建議這類「做出來的事」，常接 but ——好意但沒幫上忙）
Well-meant is the same idea as well-meaning, but pointed at a thing rather than a person. You say it about a remark, a gift, a piece of advice, a gesture — something done from good motives that did not have the effect the wanted. "His comment was well-meant" tells you he wanted to help and it came out badly. This is the everyday shape it takes: after be, describing something that has already happened, and very often followed by but. Before a noun it also works — "well-meant advice", "a well-meant but disastrous surprise party" — though it is a little less common there than well-meaning is. Because it points at the act, it is the kindest of the three: it lets you set the outcome aside and defend the intention without saying anything about the person's judgement at all. That makes it the word you want when you are smoothing something over, especially if the person who did it is standing right there.
well-meant 和 well-meaning 意思相近，差別在於它形容的是事情，例如話、禮物、建議，而不是人。它指出發點是好的，但效果不如做的人想要的。例句「His comment was well-meant」的意思是，他的評論出於好意，只是效果不好。常見句型是放在 be 動詞後面，後面常接 but；放在名詞前面也可以，像「well-meant advice」，不過比 well-meaning 少見，例如「a well-meant but disastrous surprise party」。因為它指的是做出來的事，所以可以把結果放一邊，替對方的出發點說話，不去評論對方的判斷力。想替事情打圓場、而那個人就在旁邊的時候，這個詞最合適。
組成well + meant, the past participle of mean in its "intend" sense.
同家族的字
- meanmeant is its past participle
- well-meaningthe same root, describing the person instead of the act
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
well-meantadj
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Having good intentions, even if resulting in unfortunate consequences.
- When a loved aunt has sweated herself to the bone trying to save her god-child from the clutches of a New York playboy and learns that all her well-meant efforts have gone blue on her, it's only natural for her late brother's son to shudder in sympathy.
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