1. 1不忠;背信。名詞。日常更常說「背叛」「不忠」。

    Faithlessness is the noun: the fact or quality of being faithless. It is the broken trust itself, not the person.

    Faithlessness is the nounfaithlessness是名詞:the fact or quality of being faithless指的是faithless(不忠、失信)這件事或這種特質。It is the broken trust itself它就是被破壞的那份信任本身,not the person不是指那個人。

    You can speak of someone’s faithlessness in a marriage, or the faithlessness of an ally who walked away. It is a formal, slightly old word — more at home in a novel, a sermon, or a serious essay than in a text message.

    You can speak of someone's faithlessness in a marriage你可以說某人在婚姻裡的faithlessness,or the faithlessness of an ally who walked away或某個離棄你的盟友的faithlessness。It is a formal, slightly old word它是個正式、有點老派的字——more at home in a novel, a sermon, or a serious essay than in a text message比較適合出現在小說、講道或嚴肅的文章裡,而不是簡訊裡。

    Everyday English prefers cheating, betrayal, or being . The shape is simple: take faithless and add -ness, the ending that turns a describing word into a name for a quality.

    Everyday English prefers cheating, betrayal, or being unfaithful日常英文比較常用cheating(劈腿)、betrayal(背叛)或being unfaithful(不忠)。The shape is simple它的構詞很簡單:take faithless and add -ness把faithless加上-ness,the ending that turns a describing word into a name for a quality這個字尾能把形容詞變成表示特質的名詞。

    Though actually, using such a big noun can sound as if you are standing far away from the hurt, wrapping it in a long word. It still points at the same wound as faithless: not “no religion,” but loyalty that did not hold.

    Though actually不過事實上,using such a big noun can sound as if you are standing far away from the hurt用這麼大的名詞,聽起來會像是你站得離那份傷痛很遠,wrapping it in a long word用一個長字把它包起來。It still points at the same wound as faithless它指的還是跟faithless一樣的那道傷:not 'no religion,' but loyalty that did not hold不是'沒有信仰',而是沒能維持住的忠誠。

core核心畫面

組成faithless + -ness (the old ending that names a quality).

同家族的字

  • faithlessthe describing word this noun is built from
  • faithfulnessthe opposite quality, built the same way with -ness
  • faiththe trust that has been broken
  • unfaithfulthe everyday cousin for the same broken loyalty

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。

faithlessnessnoun

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    The quality of being faithless.

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