核心畫面

Picture doubt being closed off: someone says 'you have my word — this will happen', and the wobble stops. The word can name the promise that does the closing, or the steadiness that is left behind in the person, or the contract you buy so that a family is not left exposed.

可以想成:一份不確定被關上了——有人說「我跟你保證,這件事一定會做到」,於是那份搖晃停了下來。這個字可以指做這件事的更多收起可以想成:一份不確定被關上了——有人說「我跟你保證,這件事一定會做到」,於是那份搖晃停了下來。這個字可以指做這件事的那句承諾、也可以指停下來之後留在人身上的那份穩,還可以指你買下來、讓家人不至於毫無依靠的那紙契約。

From the picture

自己心裡的篤定

把保證從別人那裡收回到自己身上:不需要誰來擔保,你本身就有那份「我做得到」的穩定感,而且看得出來。

self-confidence · noun · B2

A calm feeling that you can do something well, or that you are right about something.

自信/把握

買來的那份保障

把保證變成一紙可以買的契約:保險公司承諾在事情發生時付一筆錢,用金錢形式擔保了那份安心。

life insurance (BrE) · noun · C1

Insurance, especially a plan that pays money to your family if you die (mainly British English).

(人壽)保險

Also in this word

promise; reassurance · noun · B1

A promise that something is true or will happen, given to stop someone worrying.

保證

原始詞典資料8 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。

assurancenoun/əˈʃɔːɹəns/

  • 1

    The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.

    • Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
    • Assurances of support came pouring in daily.
  • 2

    The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.

    • Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
    • The storm took countless lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee from their communities with no assurance of returning soon.
  • 3

    Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.

    • the affairs of the Tarkish camp together with assurance
    • Conversation, when they come into the world, soon gives them a becoming assurance
  • 4

    Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity

    • His assurance is intolerable.
    • You confined to the society of the illiterate and vulgar all your life! I wonder how the young man could have the assurance to ask it. He must have a pretty good opinion of himself.
  • 5

    obsoleteBetrothal; affiance.

  • 6

    businessinsuranceInsurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Assurance is used in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.

  • 7

    lawAny written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.

    • the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom.
  • 8

    lifestylereligiontheologySubjective certainty of one's salvation.

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