| 释义 |
unˈsuitable, a.
(un-1 7 b and 5 b.)
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xxxviii. §3 Wanton, or light or vnsuteable harmonie, such as only pleaseth the eare. 1601Shakes. All's Well i. i. 170 Virginitie like an olde Courtier, weares her cap out of fashion, richly suted, but vnsuteable. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. i. iii, I make him but very unsuitable Returns for the Blessings..I have receiv'd. 1671Milton P.R. iii. 132 Hard recompence, unsutable return For so much good, so much beneficence. 1831James Phil. Augustus II. iv, At so unsuitable an hour. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 346 The expression..would hardly appear unsuitable. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 216 He thought..him not wholly unsuitable as a companion.
b. Const. to or for.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xxiii, An unkinde answere,..but not unsutable to the rest of your behaviour. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. ii. v. 222 Hee will smile vpon her, which will now be so vnsuteable to her disposition,..that [etc.]. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 293 Their ordinary maintenance was not unsuitable to their employment. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 547 If our devotion be over⁓strained it becomes unsuitable for practice. 1780Mirror No. 94, A train of thinking..neither unpleasing nor unsuitable to the character of a rational being. a1834Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 382 Never did so wise a man adopt means so unsuitable to his end. 1879G. C. Harlan Eyesight ix. 131 Ground-glass globes are condemned..as unsuitable for school purposes. |