喜樂美語
  1. 1aB1/ˌʌnɪkˈspektɪd/意外的／出乎意料的

    Surprising because you did not think it would happen.

    示範例句 · Example

    The test result was completely unexpected.

    逐字測驗結果完全出乎意料。

    unexpected 就是 not expected——事情發生了，但你事先沒想到，所以覺得驚訝。可以想成「在你的預料之外」。它可以是好事（unexpected gift）也可以是壞事（unexpected problem），重點都在「沒料到會發生」。

    常見搭配

    • completely/totally unexpected

      完全出乎意料

      very surprising, not expected at all

      The news was totally unexpected.

    • an unexpected guest/visitor

      不速之客

      someone who comes without warning

      We had an unexpected guest for dinner.

    • unexpected result

      意外的結果

      an outcome you did not predict

      The experiment gave an unexpected result.

    用法接近

    surprisingunusual

    意思相反

    expectedpredictableplanned

core核心畫面

You can picture 'expect' as having a slot ready in your mind for what's coming; 'unexpected' is when something walks in through a door you never set a place at — it surprises you precisely because you had prepared no slot for it.

可以想成：expect 是你心裡先替某件事「留了一個位子」；unexpected 就是有東西從一扇你根本沒防備的門走進來——因為你事先沒替它留位子，所以才會嚇你一跳、覺得意外。

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用法接近

surprisingunusual

意思相反

expectedpredictableplanned

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。

unexpectedadj/ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/

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    Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.

    • She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
    • Certainly unexpected. The P[awn] is overprotected to the best taste of a Nimzowitsch devotee, and there seems to be no drastic weakness in White's camp to justify this intrusion.

unexpectednoun/ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪd/

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    rareSomeone or something unexpected.

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。