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An atheist is a person who believes that God — or gods — do not exist. The word names the person; the belief itself is .
An atheistatheist is a person who believes是相信 that God — or gods — do not exist上帝或神明不存在的人. The word這個字 names the person指的是這個人; the belief itself is atheism而這個信念本身叫 atheism
You can say “She is an atheist,” or, a little more formally, “an atheist writer.” It can be a calm label or a fighting word, depending on who says it and where. In some families it is an ordinary fact; in others it is a heavy thing to say out loud.
You can say你可以說「She is an atheist,」「She is an atheist,」 or, a little more formally或稍微正式一點,「an atheist writer.」「an atheist writer.」 It它 can be a calm label or a fighting word可以是個平靜的標籤，也可以是個挑釁的字眼, depending on who says it and where要看是誰在哪裡說. In some families在有些家庭裡 it is an ordinary fact這是稀鬆平常的事實; in others在有些家庭裡 it is a heavy thing to say out loud這卻是很沉重、不容易說出口的事
As an adjective, people also put it before a noun: atheist arguments, an atheist philosopher. Though actually, students often treat atheist and as one word. One is the person (and sometimes a plain describing word); the other is the -, the idea.
As an adjective當形容詞用時, people also put it before a noun大家也會把它放在名詞前面: atheist arguments, an atheist philosopher像 atheist arguments、an atheist philosopher. Though actually不過事實上, students often treat atheist and atheism as one word學生常常把 atheist 和 atheism 當成同一個字. One is the person一個是指人 (and sometimes a plain describing word)（有時候也是普通的形容詞）; the other is the -ism, the idea另一個是那個 -ism，指的是這個概念本身
An atheist is also not simply “someone bad” or “someone who never goes to church” — those are extra stories people stick onto it.
An atheistatheist also not simply「someone bad」or「someone who never goes to church」也不只是單純的「壞人」或「從不上教堂的人」 — those are extra stories people stick onto it那些都是別人硬貼上去的說法
組成Built from Greek a- “without,” theós “god,” and the ending -ist, “a person who holds this belief.” The same Greek pieces sit inside atheism; -ist is the person-ending English also uses in artist, scientist.
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。
atheistnoun/ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/
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lifestylereligionA person who does not believe in deities or gods.
- Atheists. One who does not believe in the existence of a Supreme Being, an atheist, is incompetent as a witness, being incapable of being sworn. […] Changed by Acts of 1851, No. 12 (P. S. 1593), under which, no question can be raised as to a witness's "opinions on matters of religious belief."
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lifestylereligionA person who does not believe in deities or gods.
- Ageine, the Atheistes, which say in their hartes there is no God; […]
- An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not.
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lifestylereligionA person who does not believe in deities or gods.
- Minister—Are you really an Atheist? Atheist—Yes. M.—Do you deny that there is a god? A.—No. I deny that there is sufficient reason to believe there is one. There may be a god, but I think it rather unlikely.
- Very low probability, but short of zero. De facto atheist. ‘I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there.’
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lifestylereligionA person who does not believe in deities or gods.
- All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance?
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A person who does not believe in a particular deity (but may believe in another deity).
- Malice and prejudice concurred in representing the Christians as a society of atheists, who, by the most daring attack on the religious constitution of the empire, had merited the severest animadversion of the civil magistrate.
- An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
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A person who does not believe in any religion (not even a religion without gods); a nonreligious person.
- This is one of the strongest Grounds of Suspicion to me, and assures me that he has very little Regard to Religion in general; that he can pretend to marry you, and know nothing whether you are a Heathen or Christian; an Atheist or religious Person, a Papist or a Protestant; the Man can have no great Value for Religion, that is so little concerned whether his Wife has any, or no; for I take the Thing to weigh as much on one Side as on the other, where there is any serious Confideration at Bottom.
- For instance, in Morocco, while a Muslim man is free to marry a non-Muslim woman, provided she is Christian or Jewish, but not Buddhist, Hindu or Atheist, a Muslim woman is only supposed to marry a Muslim man.
atheistadj/ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/
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Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic.
- He would have been seven times more Epicure and atheist than he was.
- God! That majestic name is in the pledge. In doing this the government has already made clear that our country believes in God! We are the majority! Our nation is not Buddhist, not Hinduist, not Atheist, and the list goes on!
atheistverb/ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/
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rareTo make someone an atheist.
- The multitude of opinions doth draw him away, or else Atheist him, that he will be nothing. […] The multitude of opinions […] doth un-atheist him, put him upon the search and examination what is the truth of God.
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。