喜樂美語
  1. 1aB2/ʌnˈfæʃənəbəl/退流行的；不時髦的

    Not popular or liked by most people at this time. It is used about ideas, ways of living, places, and things like clothes that people are no longer interested in.

    示範例句 · Example

    These big round glasses were everywhere ten years ago, but now they look unfashionable.

    逐字這些大圓眼鏡十年前到處都是，但現在它們看起來退流行了。

    unfashionable 是 fashionable（時髦的）前面加 un-，意思是「現在大家不流行這個了」。它說的是「當下有沒有人在追」，跟東西本身好不好無關——一件很好的外套也可以是 unfashionable。可以想成：流行像一陣風，風吹過去了，東西還在原地，只是沒人跟著走了。英文裡 unfashionable 最常用來說想法、生活方式和地區（an unfashionable part of town）；如果是衣服或造型退流行，更常說 out of fashion。

    常見搭配

    • become unfashionable

      漸漸退流行

      to stop being popular over a period of time

      Long skirts became unfashionable, and then came back again.

    • an unfashionable part of town

      不熱門的地區

      an area that people do not think is exciting or popular to live in

      Her studio is in an unfashionable part of town, so the rent is low.

    • unfashionable clothes

      退流行的衣服

      clothes that are not the style people are wearing now

      The box was full of unfashionable clothes from the 1990s.

    • it is unfashionable to do something

      現在很少人這樣做／這樣說

      most people do not say or do this now

      It is unfashionable to write in pencil, but Sam likes it.

    • deeply unfashionable

      非常退流行

      very much not popular at the moment

      That colour was deeply unfashionable for years, and now designers love it.

    意思相反

    fashionabletrendystylishpopularin fashion

core核心畫面

Think of a coat at the back of the wardrobe: nothing is wrong with it, but people just don't wear that now. Unfashionable marks where something sits in people's current taste, not whether it is good.

一件掛在衣櫃深處的外套：它沒有壞，尺寸也還合身，只是「現在大家不穿這個了」。unfashionable 講的不是好壞、不是對錯，而是一個時間點上的人氣位置——曾經被喜歡過（或至少沒人覺得奇怪），而此刻風向已經走開。字本身也把這件事說得很清楚：fashion（流行）+ -able（合乎…的）+ un-（不），也就是「不合當下潮流的」。所以它天生帶著一個隱形的時間標記：unfashionable 永遠是相對於「現在」而言，過幾年風向轉回來，同一件事就又時髦了。

同家族的字

比較級 more unfashionable最高級 most unfashionable

意思相反

fashionabletrendystylishpopularin fashion

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。

unfashionableadj

  • 1

    Not fashionable.

    • The fashionable intelligence says so for the comfort of the Parisians, and it knows all fashionable things. To know things otherwise were to be unfashionable.
  • 2

    obsoleteThat cannot be fashioned; unshapely, distorted.

    • I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them ...

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