- 1贊助、支持（固定用法 under the auspices of：在……的贊助／主辦下）
You almost always meet this word in one set phrase: under the auspices of someone. It means a group or a person is backing what you do — with help, money, a name, or a safe official home for the work. A concert may be held under the auspices of the city; a study may run under the auspices of a university. It is formal, a little old-fashioned, and it belongs to institutions, not to everyday favours. You would not use it about a friend who simply helps you. Speakers almost never use the singular auspice in ordinary talk; auspices is the normal form. Long ago the word belonged to Roman priests watching birds for a sign from the gods. That ‘protecting sign’ feeling later became ‘official backing.’ Today nobody is thinking about birds. They are thinking about a sponsor.
From the word’s history
Plural of auspice.
auspice（主持、贊助）的複數。
組成From Latin auspicium, a reading of birds as signs: avis (bird) + specere (to look). English kept the old ‘under a protecting sign’ idea and turned it into ‘with official support.’
同家族的字
- auspicioussame Latin root; the adjective for a good sign
- auspiciouslythe adverb from that adjective
- inauspiciousthe opposite: looking like a bad sign
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
auspicesnoun
- 1
Protection or patronage.
- The project took place under the auspices of the local church.
- "You are of the old school, Sir Robert, I know; but, still, even you must allow that a fancy fair does good—many a sinking charity has been revived under its auspices, many a principle of care for our humble classes been implanted in the young heart, and—"
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- auspice
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。