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单词 non-event
释义
non-event
noun[Cusually singular]
informal
uk
/ˌnɒn.ɪˈvent/us
/ˌnɑːn.ɪˈvent/
adisappointingoccasionthat was notinteresting,especiallyone that wasexpectedto beexcitingandimportant:
（尤指不如预期的）令人扫兴之事
Thepartyturnedout to be a non-event -barelyanybodyshowedup.结果聚会有点让人失望——几乎没什么人来参加。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Disappointing yourself and others
  • abjectly
  • anticlimactic
  • anticlimax
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  • be one in the eye forsomeoneidiom
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  • disappointingly
  • disappointment
  • disenchantment
  • dishearten
  • disheartening
  • eye
  • fail
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(Definition ofnon-eventfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofnon-event

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For anon-event, it has certainly drawn an impressive list of speakers and has kept us here well into the evening.
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First, with regard to reform, the six months have been a completenon-event.
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I thought that he would be interested to know that what led him to concern himself in this way was anon-event.
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This has turned the debate, as has already been said, into a totalnon-event.
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However, the change is so far proving to be anon-event.
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My recollection of him goes back to that time, and to his resignation in 1977 over anon-event.
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It is anon-event, paying lip service to local representation.
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We may all get excited about something that is not to happen and may become anon-event.
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But the term "consumer" is nebulous, anon-event.
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Thrice that consideration has proved to be anon-event.
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I find it difficult to know whether we are discussing a joke, anon-eventor something particularly disastrous.
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It can only be described as thenon-eventof the year.
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Later tonight we shall come to anothernon-event, for no very good purpose.
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In terms of fundamental changes being recommended, this is something of anon-event.
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In fact, we have no sanction at all; at present we merely have the 72-hournon-event.
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