- 1坦白的、直言的（不隱瞞難聽的實話）；口語也指「抓拍的」（candid photo）
If you are candid, you tell the truth even when the truth may upset someone or make you look bad. A candid answer is open. It does not hide behind polite empty words. People ask for “a candid opinion” when they want honesty, not kindness dressed up as honesty. It is a slightly careful, grown-up word — more formal than honest, close to frank. Though actually, candid is not only about speaking. A “candid photo” is one taken when the person is not posing, so the picture feels real. That use comes from the same idea: nothing is being arranged to look nicer than it is. The word was borrowed from Latin candidus, “white” or “shining”. White was a picture of something clean and not mixed with anything else, so the meaning moved from bright white to not hiding anything.
From the word’s history
Borrowed from Latin candidus; an early English sense was 'bright, white'.
借自拉丁文 candidus；英文早期也有「白、亮」的意思。
組成Borrowed from Latin candidus, “white”. Latin built it from candēre, “to shine / be white”, plus the ending -idus.
同家族的字
- candorcandor is the noun: the quality of being candid, from the same Latin candidus
- candidatefrom Latin candidatus; in Rome, people seeking office wore a white toga, from candidus, “white”
原始詞典資料5 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。
candidadj/ˈkæn.dɪd/
- 1
Impartial and free from prejudice.
- He knew not where to look for faithful advice, efficient aid, or candid judgement.
- Asked about the Brexit vote, the candid president told Marr: «I am not the one to judge or comment on the decision of your people.»
- 2
Straightforward, open and sincere, whether people find either refreshing or distasteful.
- a surprisingly candid admission of guilt
- “I know you do; and it is that which makes the wonder. With your good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others! Affectation of candour is common enough;—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.[…]”
- 3
Unposed or rehearsed.
- Will the introduction of supplementary flash or flood intrude on a candid picture situation or ruin the mood?
- 4
obsoleteBright; white.
- The Box receives all Black, but, pour'd from thence, / The Stones came candid forth; the Hue of Innocence.
candidnoun/ˈkæn.dɪd/
- 1
A spontaneous or unposed photograph.
- His portraits looked stiff and formal but his candids showed life being lived.
- When he held the Guild Chair, the office walls were not, as they are now, festooned with orchestrated candids of Chancre and municipal burghers, Chancre herding his porcine family in their Sunday best.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。