| 单词 |
unalive |
| 释义 |
unaˈlive, a. [un-1 7.] a. Not fully susceptible or awake to something.
1828L. Hunt Byron & Contemp. (ed. 2) I. 377 Dry, mechanical theorists, unalive to sentiment and fancy. 1855Bagehot Lit. Stud. (1879) I. 16 An experienced and erudite Frenchman, not unalive to artistic effect. 1893G. Allen Scallywag III. 9 He was not unalive to the advantages of keeping up his dormant connection. b. Lacking in vitality; not living. Also fig.
1905M. Dods Let. 14 Apr. (1911) 176 How you can think yourself empty and unalive I don't know. 1931H. S. Walpole Judith Paris ii. v. 338 All the members of the Herries family, with whom she had so lately been, seemed unreal and unalive. 1935E. Bowen House in Paris ii. x. 209 The street reflected the blind windows and a strip of unalive wet sky. 1954R. Speaight George Eliot iv. 51 The true criticism of Stephen is not that he is unattractive but that he is unalive. |

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