One way to hold this word: a thing still has its shape, but nothing inside it is holding the weight any more. The wall stands, yet the joints have . The plan is still written out, yet the evidence under it is gone. The person is still going about the day, yet the body or the mind is not carrying them. Unsound names that gap between the shape you can see and the strength that should be inside it.

可以想成這樣一個畫面:東西的形狀還在,可是裡面已經沒有東西在撐了。牆還立著,磚縫卻鬆了。計畫還寫在紙上,底下的根據卻空了。人照樣過日子,身體或心智卻撐不住了。unsound 指的就是「看得到形狀,撐不住重量」這個落差。所以它幾乎都出現在有人要做判斷的時候:能不能再用、能不能算數、能不能上場。

From the word’s history

The source gives the word's make-up directly: un- + sound. Sound on its own is the old word for whole, firm and healthy, and un- takes that away, which is why one word can cover walls, arguments and bodies.

來源直接給了組成:un- 加上 sound。sound 這個字本身的意思是「完好、結實、健康」,un- 把它拿掉。所以同一個字才能同時講牆、講說法、也講身體——被拿掉的都是那個「完好」。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:672177704:7522): "From un- + sound."

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