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Picture taking something whole and breaking it into its parts, then looking closely at each part to understand how the whole works. Every sense is some version of this 'break apart to understand' move — whether the thing taken apart is an argument, a chemical, or a person's mind.
可以想成：把一個整體拆開成一片一片，再仔細端詳每一片，好弄懂整體是怎麼運作的。analysis 的每個意思都是這個「…更多收起
可以想成：把一個整體拆開成一片一片，再仔細端詳每一片，好弄懂整體是怎麼運作的。analysis 的每個意思都是這個「拆開來看懂」的動作，只是被拆的東西不同——可能是一段論點、一種化學物質，或一個人的內心。原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
analysisnoun/əˈnæləsɪs/
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Decomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory, etc.).
- comparative analysis
- Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
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The result of such a process.
- Thus, in a sequence such as [French English teacher], since English is closer to the Head Noun teacher, it must be a Complement; and since French is further away from teacher, it must be an Attribute. Hence, we correctly predict that the only possible interpretation for [a French English teacher] is ‘a person who teaches English who is Frenchʼ. So our analysis not only has semantic plausi- bility; but in addition it has independent syntactic support.
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mathematicssciencesA broad field of study in modern mathematics (often mentioned alongside algebra) which developed out of the calculus, concerned with the behavior of functions, sequences, series, limits, metric spaces, measures and more.
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human-scienceslogicmathematicsProof by deduction from known truths.
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chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesThe process of breaking down a substance into its constituent parts, or the result of this process.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicThe analytical study of melodies, harmonies, sequences, repetitions, variations, quotations, juxtapositions, and surprises.
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human-sciencespsychologysciencesPsychoanalysis.
- The "Homosexuals" chapter gets off to a brisk start with a declaration from a man identified as "Nick August" ― a "self-proclaimed homosexual" ― that "homosexuals are men who are so terrified of their sexual feelings for their mothers, that they have spent their whole lives proving they don't have any feelings at all for women." We are not surprised to learn, later on, that he is in analysis; may I suggest that his analyst is a very old-fashioned one?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。