Word · Frequency #7811
undesirable
不受欢迎的人
an undesirable person
- 1.
An undesirable person.
不受欢迎的人。
- 2.
one whose presence is undesirable
不受欢迎的人
不受欢迎的人。
In use
The club asked the security team to remove any undesirables from the entrance.
After the argument, she decided that he was an undesirable and stopped meeting him.
The landlord considered the noisy tenant an undesirable and refused to renew the lease.
rounding up vagrants and drunks and other undesirables
be considered an undesirable
He was considered an undesirable in the community.
他被认为是社区中不受欢迎的人。
be labeled as an undesirable
通常用于复数形式
The group was labeled as undesirables by the authorities.
该团体被当局标记为不受欢迎的人。
a known undesirable
The police have a list of known undesirables.
警方有一份已知不受欢迎人士的名单。
Common mistakes
He is a undesirable.He is an undesirable.
单词undesirable以元音音素开头，不定冠词应用an而非a。
He is one of the undesirable.He is one of the undesirables.
‘one of’后应接可数名词复数形式，而undesirable的名词复数形式为undesirables。
Connections
Collocations
- round up undesirables
- 搜捕不受欢迎的人
- The government ordered the police to round up undesirables in the city.政府命令警方在城市中搜捕不受欢迎的人。
- deport undesirables
- 驱逐不受欢迎的人
- The country has a policy to deport undesirables who have no legal status.这个国家有政策驱逐没有合法身份的不受欢迎的人。
- social undesirable
- 社交中的不受欢迎者
- He was considered a social undesirable because of his rude behavior.由于他粗鲁的行为，他被视为社交中的不受欢迎者。
- political undesirable
- 政治上的不受欢迎者
- The regime labeled all dissidents as political undesirables.该政权将所有持不同政见者标记为政治上的不受欢迎者。
- classify as an undesirable
- 归类为不受欢迎的人
- The authorities classify anyone without a permit as an undesirable.当局将任何没有许可证的人归类为不受欢迎的人。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
un-不 + desirable令人渴望的 = 不令人渴望的人，即不受欢迎的人。
Context & Register
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Grammar Note
通常指不受欢迎的人或群体，常含贬义
Pronunciation & Spelling
Only 'desirable' rhymes with 'undesirable' (/aɪrəbəl/). Other words ending in -able have different stressed vowels, e.g., 'reasonable' has /ˈrizənəbəl/.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
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