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    A beholder is a person who looks at something — the one doing the seeing, not the thing being seen. In ordinary talk the word almost never walks around on its own.

    A beholder is a person who looks at somethingbeholder 是指看著某樣東西的人——the one doing the seeing是在做「看」這個動作的人,not the thing being seen而不是被看的那個東西。In ordinary talk在日常對話裡,the word almost never walks around on its own這個字幾乎不會自己單獨出現。

    You will meet it in one famous line: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That means what looks beautiful depends on who is looking; there is no single true answer that fits everyone. People use that line seriously and also with a smile.

    You will meet it in one famous line你會在一句名言裡遇到它:beauty is in the eye of the beholderbeauty is in the eye of the beholder(美不美,在於看的人)。That means what looks beautiful depends on who is looking這句話的意思是,美不美取決於是誰在看,there is no single true answer that fits everyone沒有一個適用所有人的標準答案。People use that line seriously人們會很認真地用這句話,and also with a smile也會帶著微笑用它。

    Though actually, games and stories sometimes name a monster a Beholder; that is a later, playful use of ‘one who looks’, not a second classroom meaning you need in order to understand the English word.

    Though actually不過其實,games and stories sometimes name a monster a Beholder電玩和故事有時候會把一種怪物取名叫 Beholder;that is a later, playful use of 'one who looks'那是後來一種比較好玩的用法,取「看的人」的意思,not a second classroom meaning you need in order to understand the English word並不是你要理解這個英文字時需要知道的第二個正式意思。

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組成behold + -er: a person who beholds, i.e. who looks. From Middle English forms such as beholder and biholdere.

同家族的字

  • beholdbeholder is simply behold plus -er, ‘one who looks’
  • beholdensame behold stem; a different old ending with a different job now

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。

beholdernoun/bɪˈhəʊldə/

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    Someone who observes or beholds; an observer or spectator.

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    fantasyA fictional monster in roleplaying games, a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth and many eyes on stalks.

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