喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture pointing a finger at someone and saying 'this bad thing — it came from you'. blame is hanging the cause of something bad on a particular person or thing; every other use is a turn on that single pointing gesture.

可以想成有件壞事發生了，你伸手一指，說「這是你害的」。blame 這個字可以想成把一件壞事的「源頭」掛到某個人或某樣…更多收起可以想成有件壞事發生了，你伸手一指，說「這是你害的」。blame 這個字可以想成把一件壞事的「源頭」掛到某個人或某樣東西身上；其他用法都是這個「指認源頭」動作的變化。

From the picture

反過來說：不怪、別怪、自己怪

這一組都是把同一根手指收回、轉向或調整方向的固定說法：要嘛決定不指（情有可原），要嘛先聲明別指我，要嘛把手指轉回對方自己。

I don't blame you · verb · B1

In phrases like 'I don't blame you', to feel that what someone did was fair or understandable.

覺得（某人這樣做）情有可原

Also in this word

hold responsible · verb · B1

To say or think that a person or thing is the reason something bad happened.

責怪／怪

responsibility/fault · noun · B1

The fact of being seen as the one who caused something bad.

責任／過錯

原始詞典資料9 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。

blamenoun詞源 1/bleɪm/

  • 1

    Censure.

    • Blame came from all directions.
  • 2

    Culpability for something negative or undesirable.

    • The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.
  • 3

    Responsibility for something meriting censure.

    • They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.
  • 4

    computingengineeringmathematicsA source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.

blameverb詞源 2/bleɪm/

  • 1

    To assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for something negative or for doing something negative).

    • The student driver was blamed for the accident.
    • After what happened at the wedding, I wouldn't blame you if you never spoke to them again.
  • 2

    To assert the cause of some bad event.

    • We blamed the accident on the student driver.
    • Have to catch an early train, got to be to work by nine And if I had an airplane, I still couldn't make it on time 'Cause it takes me so long just to figure out what I'm gonna wear Blame it on the train, but the boss is already there
  • 3

    To censure (someone or something); to criticize.

    • though my loue be not so lewdly bent, / As those ye blame, yet may it nought appease / My raging smart [...].
    • I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming.
  • 4

    obsoleteTo bring into disrepute.

    • For knighthoods loue, do not so foule a deed, / Ne blame your honour with so shamefull vaunt / Of vile reuenge.

blameadj詞源 2/bleɪm/

  • 1

    euphemism of damn (intensifier)

    • "He yarns good," said Tom Platt. "T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids. Cur'us kind o' fairy-tale, but blame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em."
    • “What do you want with one of those blame things?” / I asked him well beforehand. “Don’t you get one!”

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。