- 1難以辨認(字跡或印刷看不清楚)
Illegibility is the noun for the quality of being hard or impossible to read. If a note is a mess of lines, its illegibility is the problem: your eyes cannot turn the marks into words.
Illegibility是 the noun for the quality這個特質的名詞 of being hard or impossible to read難以或無法閱讀 If如果 a note一張筆記 is a mess of lines是一團亂線 its它的 illegibility難以辨認 is the problem就是問題所在 your eyes你的眼睛 cannot turn the marks into words沒辦法把那些筆劃變成文字
It is not about a difficult idea. The meaning might be simple, but the writing, the print, or the copy will not sit still for you.
It is它 not about a difficult idea跟一個困難的概念無關 The meaning意思 might be simple可能很簡單 but但 the writing, the print, or the copy文字、印刷,或影印本 will not sit still for you就是讓你的眼睛沒辦法安穩地讀
Though actually, people almost never say this word out loud. They say I cannot read this or the writing is terrible.
Though actually不過其實 people大家 almost never say this word out loud幾乎不會把這個字說出口 They大家 say I cannot read this就說「我看不懂這個」 or或 the writing is terrible「這字寫得太爛了」
You will meet illegibility in more formal notes — a teacher's comment, a form filled in badly, an old letter. It always points at reading with the eyes, not at understanding a hard text that is printed clearly.
You will meet illegibility你會在 in more formal notes比較正式的文字裡遇到illegibility a teacher's comment像老師的評語 a form filled in badly填得亂七八糟的表格 an old letter或一封舊信 It它 always points at一律指的是 reading with the eyes用眼睛去讀這件事 not而不是 at understanding a hard text去理解一段印得很清楚、但內容很難的文字 that is printed clearly
core核心畫面
組成From illegible + -ity (the ending that names a quality).
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。
illegibilitynoun
- 1
The characteristic or quality of being illegible; the quality of being difficult or impossible to read.
- The illegibility of his handwriting made it unclear which answer he wrote.
- “Poor thing! poor thing!” says Briggs (who was thinking of twenty-four years back, and that hectic young writing-master whose lock of yellow hair, and whose letters, beautiful in their illegibility, she cherished in her old desk upstairs).
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。