人（或動物）表現出來的樣子
這一組是核心畫面本身：別人看得到的那些動作和反應。裡面還多出一個固定說法，講的是刻意把這些表現調到最好的那段時間。
behaviour; conduct · noun · B1
The way that a person or animal acts, especially towards other people.
行為 / 舉止
核心畫面
Picture watching someone from across the room without hearing a word they say. What you can still see — how they treat people, what they do when things go wrong, the pattern that repeats — is their behaviour. The word points at the outside, not the inside: not what someone feels or intends, but what actually shows. That is why science can borrow it for materials and animals too; anything that acts in an pattern has behaviour.
可以想成 behaviour 是這樣的畫面：你在房間另一頭看著一個人，一句話都聽不到，但你還是看得出來——他怎麼對別…更多收起
可以想成 behaviour 是這樣的畫面：你在房間另一頭看著一個人，一句話都聽不到，但你還是看得出來——他怎麼對別人、事情不順的時候他做什麼、哪些反應一再出現。這些看得到的部分就是 behaviour。這個字指的是外面，不是裡面：不是他心裡怎麼想、想幹嘛，而是實際顯現出來的樣子。也因為這樣，科學也借去用在動物和材料上——只要會以某種看得出來的方式作用，就有 behaviour。Two branches
東西的運作方式
同一個「看得出來的固定表現」搬到沒有意志的東西上。金屬、氣體、程式不會「想」什麼，但它們在某些條件下會固定地做某些事，英文就用同一個字來說這件事。
how something behaves (science) · noun · B1
The way that something in nature or science normally acts or works.
特性 / 運作方式
原始詞典資料1 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。
behaviournoun
- 1
British standard spelling of behavior.
- After all, it is undeniable that the B.R. standard coach scored highly in comparative trials with other European railway vehicles on the Continent a few years ago, so that B.R. civil engineers must share responsibility for any defects in its behaviour over here.
- Jonathan Hill, professor of international relations in the School of Security Studies at King’s College London, points to ongoing social unrest among rural youths in Morocco as another key reason why the law was passed. He cites the 2011 Arab Spring as an indicator of where such behaviour might lead if left unchecked.
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。