记忆方法
1. 词中 kempt 这一成分是 comb (梳) 的动词异体 kemb 的过去分词形式，kemb 早已废弃不用，早已被新动词 comb 所取代，因此，umkempt 的字面含义与 uncombed 等价、相同。
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中文词源
unkempt 不整洁的
un-, 不，非，kempt-, 梳理，词源同comb。即未梳理过的，不整洁的。
英语词源
- unkempt
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unkempt: [15] Unkempt means literally ‘uncombed’. It was coined from the prefix un- ‘not’ and the past participle of the now defunct verb kemb ‘comb’. This came from a prehistoric Germanic *kambjan, a derivative of *kambaz ‘comb’ (ancestor of the English noun comb). It began to be replaced by the new verb comb in the 14th century.
=> comb - unkempt (adj.)
- 1570s, from un- (1) "not" + kempt "well-combed, neat," from variant past participle of Middle English kemben "to comb," from Old English cemban "to comb," from Proto-Germanic *kambijan, from *kamb- "comb" (see comb (n.)). Form unkembed is recorded from late 14c. The verb kemb is rare after 1400s, but its negative past participle form endures.
权威例句
- 1. He had long unkempt hair and a stubbly chin.
- 他的头发又长又乱，脸上胡子拉碴。
- 2. The old beggar was dirty and unkempt.
- 那个老乞丐蓬头垢面.
- 3. The brick path to the door was hemmed in on either side by tall, unkempt boxwood hedges.
- 通往门口的砖路两旁是高大、杂乱的黄杨树篱。
- 4. His hair was unkempt and filthy.
- 他的头发蓬乱污秽。
- 5. She slopped about her room, unkempt and dishevelled, in her tawdry dressing - gown.
- 她不修边幅,满头蓬发,穿着俗里俗气的睡衣邋邋遢遢在屋里走来走去.