1. 1訂製的。台灣常說「客製/客製化」;中國大陸較常說「定制」

    A bespoke thing has been made specially for one customer, not taken off a shelf. The classic use is clothes: a bespoke suit is cut for your body by a tailor. British English loves this word for . Though actually people now put it on many other things — bespoke software, bespoke furniture, even trips — to mean “made to your needs.” In tech and business it often just means custom, not a London tailor. It sounds careful and a bit expensive. American English more often says custom-made. It looks like a past form of speak, but spoke (yesterday I spoke) is a different word. Bespoke began as the old past of , “to order ahead.”

From the word’s history

From bespoken, form of bespeak 'arrange beforehand'.

bespeak「事先訂好」的過去分詞,所以是「訂做的」。

Wiktionary

組成From earlier bespoken, the past form of bespeak in the sense “to arrange beforehand, to order ahead” (you spoke for it before it was made). By the 1700s, clothes that had been ordered that way were called bespoke. Same build as speak, with the old prefix be-.

同家族的字

  • bespeakbespoke began as the past form of bespeak, “to order ahead”
  • speakthe same speak, with the old prefix be-

原始詞典資料4 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。

bespokeadj/bɪˈspəʊk/

  • 1

    Made or done in a way adjusted to the needs of a specific person or group (e.g., customer, health care patient, do-it-yourselfer), and thus specialized and, in some cases, unique.

    • Near-synonyms: custom-made, tailored, tailor-made, custom-built, purpose-built; see also Thesaurus:custom-made
    • Marc Valeric, a Beverly Hills milliner, sold 125 bespoke hats in two weeks to women desperate to dress properly for royal receptions.
  • 2

    Relating to someone who makes custom-made products, especially clothing items.

    • a bespoke tailor

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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