“不感興趣”是“uninterested”還是“disinterested”？

Uninterested /?n'?nt(?)r?st?d/ is an adjective. It means inattentive or unconcerned.

是一個形容詞。意思是不感興趣的或不關(guān)心的。

Paul, I am quickly becoming uninterested in your ideas.

保羅，我很快就對你的想法不感興趣了。

(Paul's ideas arouse no interest.)

保羅的想法沒有引起人們的興趣。

I used to collect stamps, but I am uninterested these days.

我過去常集郵，但現(xiàn)在我不感興趣了。

(I find it boring these days.)

這些天，我覺得集郵很無聊。

Disinterested /d?s'?nt(?)r?st?d/ is also an adjective. Its noun form is disinterest. Disinterested means not taking sides or impartial. It is usually used to describe a person with no personal benefit at stake.

Disinterested也是一個形容詞，它的名詞形式是disinterest。Disinterested意為不偏袒任何一方或不偏不倚。它通常用來描述與個人利益無關(guān)。

We are struggling to identify twelve disinterested people for the jury.

我們正在努力為陪審團(tuán)確定12名公正無私的人。

The referee was not disinterested in the outcome of the match.

裁判在比賽的結(jié)果上并不公正。

(The referee had a personal interest in one particular side winning.)

比賽中某一方的輸贏與裁判個人有利益關(guān)系。

我們通常會因?yàn)?/p>

dis-與un-

同時都為否定前綴

而混淆了這兩個詞，

而實(shí)際上這兩個詞意思完全不同。

uninterested是

不感興趣的;不關(guān)心的;淡漠的

disinterested是

公正的,無私的,不偏袒的