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unreciprocated

/ri-sip-ruh-key-tid/US // rɪˈsɪp rəˌkeɪ tɪd //

无人问津的,无偿提供,无偿的,无人问津

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : given, done, or felt in return: When I greeted the lady who walked by my house every morning, she looked right through me as if I were invisible, with no reciprocated response.
    • : given and received, or equally engaged in, by both parties; mutual: In its most developed form, love occurs within a reciprocated relationship with another person.When he created his export business, his mission was to build a reciprocated trust within an honest and sustaining working relationship with artisans.

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Examples

  • The loyalty she had assumed was mutual was looking to be suspiciously unreciprocated.

  • As important, it ignores the very real and unreciprocated distance that the Palestinians have traveled in accepting Israel.

  • The mere unreciprocated physical residue of my passion remained—an exasperation between us.

  • The tragedy of love is not (what it is thought to be) the unreciprocated love, but the meagerly returned love.

  • Suez has ruined our shipping interests; an unreciprocated free trade is ruining our commerce.

  • Nor was this friendship unreciprocated, for his host took a wonderful fancy to John Niel.

  • And for this also all the more does he tremble as he thinks of the possibility of its being unreciprocated.