核心畫面

You can picture someone sitting down with a person, a plan, or a house in front of them, looking it over carefully, and then putting a value on it — a score, a figure, or simply a considered opinion. Assessment covers both halves of that: the act of weighing something up, and the answer you end up with.

可以想成有人坐下來,把一個人、一份計畫或一棟房子擺在面前,仔細看過一遍,然後給出一個「值多少」的答案——可能是分數,更多收起可以想成有人坐下來,把一個人、一份計畫或一棟房子擺在面前,仔細看過一遍,然後給出一個「值多少」的答案——可能是分數,可能是金額,也可能只是一句想過之後的判斷。assessment 這個字兩頭都管:既是「看過之後給出答案」這個動作,也是最後得出的那個答案本身。

One branch

看過之後給出一個值

兩個意思是同一個動作的兩種對象:一邊估的是人或情況的樣子,一邊估的是東西的金額。差別只在最後給出來的那個「值」是文字還是數字。

evaluation · noun · B2

The act of judging what a person or situation is like, or the opinion you form from this.

評估/判斷

原始詞典資料2 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。

assessmentnoun/əˈsɛsmənt/

  • 1

    The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty etc) assessed.

  • 2

    An appraisal or evaluation.

    • Lenin's retroactive view of history was of course nothing in comparison to the systematic falsification of Stalin's day, when it had to be shown at all costs that the current assessment of individuals and political movements was equally valid for all past years.
    • For every item taken into consideration, the question of its status in terms of history has to be raised; if a word can safely be taken to have been borrowed, it will require an assessment different from that appropriate for a native lexeme.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。