喜樂美語
  1. 1aB1/ʌnˈfer/ · /ʌnˈfeə/不公平的

    not right, because people are not all treated in the same way or do not all get the same chance.

    示範例句 · Example

    Leo thinks it is unfair that only one team got extra practice time.

    逐字里歐認為只有一隊得到額外練習時間是不公平的。

    「unfair」是 fair（公平）加上 un-（不），意思是「不對、不公平」，重點常常在大家的機會不一樣：有人多拿了一點，或有人少拿了一點。可以想成一把量東西的尺——fair 是每個人都用同一把尺，unfair 就是有人手上那把尺被換過了。它跟 unjust 有點不同：unjust 是「不合道理、不合法理」，比較大、比較嚴肅；unfair 就是日常的「這樣對別人不公平」，小朋友分餅乾、比賽排順序都可以用。

    常見搭配

    • an unfair advantage

      不公平的優勢；佔便宜

      a benefit that other people do not get, so the situation is not equal

      Looking at the answer sheet would give you an unfair advantage.

    • unfair to / on somebody

      對某人不公平

      not treating a particular person in the way they should be treated

      Asking Sam to carry all the bags is unfair on him.

    • it is unfair that ...

      ……這件事不公平

      used to say that a situation is not right or equal

      It is unfair that the younger kids always go last.

    • unfair competition

      不公平競爭

      business methods that do not give every company the same chance

      The law is aimed at preventing unfair competition between companies.

    • grossly unfair

      極度不公平

      extremely unfair

      Many people felt the old system was grossly unfair.

    • that's not fair

      這樣不公平啦

      spoken way of saying that something is unfair

      That's not fair — I waited in line first!

core核心畫面

Picture a set of scales that does not sit level: two people are in the same situation, but one is handed more than the other, or one is given a chance the other never gets. Unfair names that tilt — the rule was applied to them differently.

可以想成一副沒有平的天秤：兩個人明明處在同樣的位置，可是一邊拿到的比較多，或是一邊有機會、另一邊連機會都沒有。unfair 指的就是那個歪掉的角度——同一套規則落在不同人身上時，被套用得不一樣。所以它談的往往不是結果好不好，而是過程有沒有一致：同樣的工作卻拿不同的薪水，同樣的錯卻只有一個人被處罰。

同家族的字

比較級 more unfair最高級 most unfair

原始詞典資料5 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。

unfairadj/ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/

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    Not fair.

    • It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.
    • He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
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    archaicrareNot fair.

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    archaicobsoleteNot fair.

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    archaicNot fair.

unfairverb/ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/

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    obsoleteto make ugly

    • Those hours that with gentle work did frame / The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell / Will play the tyrants to the very same / And that unfair which fairly doth excel.

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