有信仰的人
站在後面的那件事是一個信仰或一套想法。
noun · B1
Someone who believes in a god, a religion, or a set of ideas, and takes it as true.
信仰者、信徒
核心畫面
A believer can be pictured as the person standing behind an idea. Someone asks, does this hold? and this person says yes, and lives as if it does. The word points at the person, not at the idea, and it does not say how loud they are. Whether the idea is a faith or just a habit that works, the picture is the same: one person, one thing they stand behind.
believer 可以想成「站在一個想法後面的那個人」。有人問「這個成立嗎」，他說成立，而且照著這樣過日子。這個字指…更多收起
believer 可以想成「站在一個想法後面的那個人」。有人問「這個成立嗎」，他說成立，而且照著這樣過日子。這個字指的是人，不是那個想法本身，也沒有說他多大聲。不管後面站的是一個信仰，還是一個他覺得有效的做法，畫面都一樣：一個人，一件他撐著的事。From the word’s history
The packet's Wiktionary etymology traces believe to Old English belīefan; believer is that verb plus -er, the ending that turns an action into the person doing it, as in teacher or writer.
來源的字源樹把 believe 追到古英語的 belīefan。believer 就是這個動詞加上 -er，而 -er 做的事跟 teacher、writer 一樣：把一個動作變成做這個動作的人。所以字面上它就是「相信的那一個」。
packet Wiktionary etymology_text for believer (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:791017648): Old English belīefan > Middle English bileven > English believe, with the agent suffix.
Two branches
很信某個做法有用
同一個人站在同一個位置，只是後面站的東西從信仰換成了一個做法。
noun · B1
If you are a great or firm believer in something, you are sure that it works well and is worth doing, and you usually do it yourself.
很相信某個做法有用