Picture an open channel between two people: thoughts, feelings and news can travel from one end to the other. Communicative describes whether that channel is open. In everyday English it turns up most often in the negative — he wasn't very communicative — a polite way of saying someone is not saying much.
兩個人之間有一條通道開著：東西——想法、心情、消息——可以從這頭走到那頭。communicative 描述的就是「這條通道通不通」。用在人身上，通道開著就是願意講、講得出來；通道關著就是問三句答一句。有趣的是這個字在日常英文裡最常出現的地方是否定句：he wasn't very communicative this morning，意思是他今天早上不太說話——英文常用這種說法委婉地指出對方在迴避。
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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
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communicativeadj/kəˈmjuː.nɪ.kə.tɪv/
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Eager to communicate; talkative.
- One of his attendants had found no little favour in the eyes of Alice, who expressed her suspicions that her mistress had some secret correspondence, for two reasons; first, to satisfy a naturally communicative temper—all common people are communicative: and secondly, in hopes of gaining such assistance as might ultimately gratify her own curiosity, now most uncomfortably excited.
- But inside the aquarium, riotously colored saltwater fish, schools of silvery piranhas, and even one seemingly communicative manta ray allow visitors to dream of worlds beyond a war that has made the land where the oceanic sanctuary sits a battle zone.
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