nondescript

參見：non-descript

英語

其他形式

• non-descript

詞源

源自non- +‎ descript。

發音

• (英國) IPA^(幫助)：/ˈnɒndɪskɹɪpt/
• (美國) IPA^(幫助)：/nɑndəsˈkɹɪpt/

• （美國）音頻

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形容詞

nondescript (比較級 more nondescript，最高級 most nondescript)

1. (生物學, 現已罕用)（學術文獻中）無記載的，無描述的

   近義詞： undescribed、unidentified

2. 無特徵的，平庸的

   近義詞： (非標準) undescript、unexceptional

   He drove a nondescript silver sedan.

   他開一輛普通的銀色轎車。

   • 1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, 「The Second Cabin」, 出自 The Amateur Emigrant:

     There was, besides, a Scots mason, known from his favourite dish as "Irish Stew," three or four nondescript Scots, a fine young Irishman, O'Reilly, and a pair of young men who deserve a special word of condemnation.

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   • 1950 April，R. A. H. Weight，「They Passed by My Window」，出自 Railway Magazine, 頁號258-259:

     In 1919, demobilisation specials from Purfleet, Essex, to the North, usually made up of nondescript, almost paintless or grey stock which had seen long wartime service, chalked with slogans, were worked through by way of Bromley and the North London line […] 。

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   • 2017年2月23日，Katie Rife，「The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés」，出自 The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     We open in a grimy, fluorescent-lit military base somewhere in rural England, where the girl from the poster, Melanie (Sennia Nanua), is the star student in a class full of children who are wheeled into school—or at least, the nondescript concrete room that serves as a school—with their arms, legs, and foreheads bound to their wheelchairs by leather straps.

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   • 2021年12月29日，Stephen Roberts，「Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)」，出自 RAIL，期號947, 頁號57:

     The plaque, of light-blue hue (a tone favoured by the Wiltshire market town's civic society), can be found on a nondescript structure just outside the station.

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名詞

nondescript (複數 nondescripts)

1. (主要用於生物學) 無書面記載的物種 （自17世紀）
   • 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:

     Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-descript.

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2. 平平無奇的人或物 （自18世紀）
   • Template:RQ:Melville Moby-Dick
3. (英國) 無標記的警車
   • 1970, Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard: a study of the Metropolitan Police，頁號 118:

     By a nice British compromise, the enforcement car — visible just then as a white spot on the television screen — has nothing externally to show its police affiliation, but unlike the CID's nondescripts, carries two large policemen in uniform.

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異序詞

• nonscripted