单词 | unwelcome |
释义 | unwelcome (ʌnwelkəm ) 1. adjective An unwelcome experience is one that you do not like and did not want. The media has brought more unwelcome attention to the Royal Family. A colleague made unwelcome sexual advances towards her. 2. adjective If you say that a visitor is unwelcome, you mean that you did not want them to come. ...an unwelcome guest. She was, quite deliberately, making him feel unwelcome. Synonyms: unwanted, unpopular, undesirable, rejected Collocations: unwelcome consequences But the desire to liberate information has had some unexpected and unwelcome consequences. Times, Sunday Times Just be aware that direct action could have unwelcome consequences. Times, Sunday Times But concentrating too much on overpopulation could have unwelcome consequences. Times, Sunday Times Second, the unwelcome consequences if the logic of the deputy judge's conclusions were extended to opposition proceedings. Times, Sunday Times While the move to combine higher education and science in a single ministry makes sense, it promises to have unintended and unwelcome consequences for the science committee. Times, Sunday Times But to recognize this means accepting an unwelcome truth: over millennia, evolution has equipped us to deal with the demands of horses and carts, not horsepower. The Times Literary Supplement The possible, unwelcome truth dawned that all that ether did to the mind was expunge memory. The Times Literary Supplement Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth to save a halfpenny. The Times Literary Supplement After hiding for three days, the novelist emerges to meet the unwelcome visitor. The Times Literary Supplement I had to swim constantly looking around to make sure there wasn't an unwelcome visitor. The Sun Or were the curtains available all the time but were only closed while he attended to his unwelcome visitor? Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, it will save time on the vacuuming - and there's nowhere for unwelcome visitors to stay. Times, Sunday Times Hidden in the soil in which these plants grow can be some very unwelcome visitors. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 不喜欢的 Japanese: 歓迎されない |
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