喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture walking around a building. From the front you see the entrance; from the back, the loading doors; the south side gets all the sun. Nothing about the building changed — you moved. An aspect is one face of a thing, the one turned toward you from where you happen to be standing.

可以想成：你繞著一棟建築物走一圈。從正面看到大門，從後面看到卸貨區，南邊那一面整天曬得到太陽。建築物一點都沒變，是你…更多收起可以想成：你繞著一棟建築物走一圈。從正面看到大門，從後面看到卸貨區，南邊那一面整天曬得到太陽。建築物一點都沒變，是你換了位置。aspect 指的就是「其中一面」——從你現在站的地方，朝著你的那一面。這個字的各種用法，就像都從這個「面」長出來：可以是牆的面，也可以是一件事情的某一面。

From the picture

一件事可以分開來看的各個面

把建築物換成一件事情：它一樣有好幾個面，你一次只轉到一個面來看，其他面暫時放旁邊。

facet · noun · B2

One of the many parts or sides of a situation, plan, or subject that you can look at on its own.

方面

外表朝人呈現的樣子

轉向你的那一面如果是人或景物的外表，看到的就是它給你的整體感覺——重點在「呈現在你眼前的那個樣子」。

appearance · noun · B2

The way that someone or something looks, especially the feeling that their appearance gives you.

樣貌

Also in this word

orientation (building) · noun · B2

The direction that a window, room, or the front of a building faces.

朝向

原始詞典資料17 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。

aspectnoun/ˈæspɛkt/

  • 1

    Any specific feature, part, or element of something.

    • Japan's aging population is an important aspect of its economy.
  • 2

    The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.

    • The stone has a greenish aspect in this light.
    • Given the limitations of planar representation[…] The painter is constantly forced to choose one aspect over the other.
  • 3

    The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.

    • in certain aspects [ = in certain respects]
    • “Perspective” can be understood in different ways. It can mean a single aspect from which something is considered or evaluated; it can also mean a view from a relation between aspects of a subject.
  • 4

    A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.

  • 5

    One's appearance or expression.

    • Art thou but Captaine of a thouſand horſe, That by Characters grauen in thy browes, And by thy martiall face and ſtout aſpect, Deſeru’ſt to haue the leading of an hoſte?
    • In Knots they ſtand, or in a Rank they Walk, / Serious in Aſpect, earneſt in their Talk: […]
  • 6

    Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.

    • The house has a southern aspect, i.e. a position which faces the south.
  • 7

    Prospect; outlook.

    • This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended ; nor does it deceive us ; for it is handsomely built […]
  • 8

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.

另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.

    • […] To the blanc moon / Her office they prescribed; to the other five / Their planetary motions, and aspects, / In sextile, square, and trine, and opposite, / Of noxious efficacy, and when to join / In synod unbenign; and taught the fix'd / their influence malignant when to shower, / Which of them rising with the sun, or falling / Should prove tempestuous: […]
    • Kepler (the Lyncæus of the laſt Age) defines an Aſpect in this manner: Aſpectus eſt Angulus à Radiis Luminoſis binorum Planetarum in terra formatus, efficax ad ſtimulandum naturam ſublunarem. It is (ſaith he) an Angle made in the Earth by the Luminous Beams of two Planets, of ſtrength to ſtir up the vertue of all ſublunary things.
  • 10

    human-scienceslifestylemysticismThe personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.

    • The Mother Goddess in her many manifestations is termed Shakti, the female energy in creation, and worshipped as the supreme female aspect of Brahman.
  • 11

    obsoleteThe act of looking at something; gaze.

    • The tradition is no less ancient, that the basilisk killeth by aspect ; and that the wolf, if he see a man first, by aspect striketh a man hoarse.
    • […] his aspect was bent on the ground with an appearance of deep dejection, which might be almost construed into apathy, […]
  • 12

    obsoleteAppearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.

    • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth Vol 1, Chapter IX. They are both in my judgment the image or picture of a great Ruine, and have the true aspect of a World lying in its rubbish.
    • Three days later he opened the parliament. The aspect of affairs was, on the whole, cheering.
  • 13

    computingengineeringmathematicsIn aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.

  • 14

    rail-transportrailwaystransportThe visual indication of railway signal as displayed to the driver. With three-aspect colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green, and on four-aspect signals, double-yellow also; a two-aspect signal displays red or green.

    • It was in this work [on the Southern Railway] that the four-aspect system of indications, using red, yellow, double yellow, and green, was first installed. […][page 229, photo caption] Three-aspect colour-light signal with three-way junction indicator, Bow Junction, Eastern Region
    • The whole of the main lines to be electrified were being equipped with four-aspect colour-light signals, automatically operated, where appropriate, and spaced to give a 5min headway throughout.

aspectverb/ˈæspɛkt/

  • 1

    astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismTo have a particular aspect or type of aspect.

  • 2

    WiccalifestylereligionTo channel a divine being.

  • 3

    obsoleteTo look at.

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。