- 1非道德(狀態/作風)。不要寫成「不道德」,那是 immorality。
Amorality is the name of that condition: having no moral standards, or a way of running things that never asks about right and wrong.
Amorality is the name of that conditionamorality是那種狀態的名字having no moral standards沒有道德標準or a way of running things that never asks about right and wrong或是一種從不去問對錯的做事方式
Writers talk about the amorality of war, of markets, of certain machines — the system just does what it is set to do. It is an essay word, a little heavy; you will not hear it in the .
Writers talk about the amorality of war, of markets, of certain machines作家會談戰爭、市場、某些機器的amoralitythe system just does what it is set to do那個系統就只是照設定去運作It is an essay word, a little heavy它是篇論述用字有點沉重you will not hear it in the cafeteria你不會在自助餐廳裡聽到它
Do not reach for it when you mean cruelty or sin; that is immorality.
Do not reach for it when you mean cruelty or sin如果你想講的是殘忍或罪惡別用這個字that is immorality那是immorality
Though actually, people often use amorality as an attack, as if having no morals were itself a kind of guilt. Strictly, the word is trying to say “outside morals,” not “evil.” Same contrast as amoral: without the rules, not against them.
Though actually, people often use amorality as an attack不過實際上人們常把amorality當作攻擊的字眼as if having no morals were itself a kind of guilt好像沒有道德本身就是一種罪過Strictly, the word is trying to say "outside morals," not "evil."嚴格來說這個字想表達的是「在道德之外」不是「邪惡」Same contrast as amoral: without the rules, not against them跟amoral一樣的對比:不受規則約束而不是違反規則
core核心畫面
組成a- (“not / without”) + morality.
原始詞典資料2 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。
amoralitynoun
- 1
Lack or absence of morality.
- "I don't think we're headed for a grey-goo scenario here, but we'd all feel really bad if the local biosphere got consumed by nanobots after we left." "We'd still get paid, right?" "I'm going to treat that as a humorous stab at your own exaggerated amorality, and then move on if you don't mind."
- 2
The metaethical belief that nothing is morally right or morally wrong, that morality does not exist.
- In law school, when we students thought the outcome of a case was determined by a rule we had studied, leftist professors admonished us, “Tools not rules!” In other words, rules control nothing; they’re merely tools you manipulate for the results you want. The fancy word for this kind of amorality is “instrumentalism,” and it subverts the rule of law.
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