mentally unfit• What if the patient is mentally unfit or is a terminally illminor?• But more alarmingly, a planned fraudtrial was scrapped because Burke was deemedmentally unfit to appear in the dock.• The judgeruled that he was mentally unfit to be tried.• Finally, there is a group of patients who are considered mentally unfit to make decisions concerning themselves.• Her 80-year-old husband, Harry, had been declaredmentally unfit to stand trial.
1unsuitable for sth/not capable of sth不適合;不能夠VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤be, look不適宜;看上去不適合▸➤become變得不適宜▸➤make sb/sth, render sb/sth使⋯不適合◇His conduct made him unfit to act as director of a company.他的行為已使他不再適合擔任公司董事。➤consider sb/sth, declare sb/sth, deem sb/sth, find sb/sth認為⋯不適宜;宣稱⋯不適合;覺得⋯不合適◇The house was declared quite unfit for human habitation.已宣佈這房子不適合人居住。ADVERB➤completely, quite, totally完全不適合;十分不適宜▸➤medically, mentally, morally, physically醫學上/精神上/道德上/身體上不適宜PREPOSITION➤for對⋯不適宜◇completely unfit for our purposes完全不符合我們的目的◇She was found unfit for work.她被發現不宜工作。◇The prison service was declared 'unfit for purpose'. (BrE) 該監獄管理部門被宣佈為“不稱職”。unfit
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2 (especially BrE) not in good physical health不健康VERBS | ADVERBVERBS➤be, feel, look不健康;感到健康狀況不佳;看上去不健康▸➤become變得不健康ADVERB➤very很不健康▸➤completely, quite完全不健康;健康狀態很差▸➤slightly稍有些不健康