喜樂美語

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You can picture care as a kind of weight you carry in your mind for someone or something. That inner weight pulls in two directions at once: inward it feels like concern (you mind, you worry, it matters to you), and outward it turns into attention and effort (you look after them, you handle things gently, you keep them in good shape). Every use of 'care' is some mix of that felt weight and the careful action it produces.

可以把 care 想成你心裡為某人或某事承擔的一份「牽掛的重量」。這份重量同時往兩個方向拉：往內，是一種在乎與擔心（…更多收起可以把 care 想成你心裡為某人或某事承擔的一份「牽掛的重量」。這份重量同時往兩個方向拉：往內，是一種在乎與擔心（這件事對你有份量、你放在心上）；往外，這份在乎就化成具體的照顧與用心（你去看顧、去料理、小心翼翼不出差錯）。所有 care 的用法，幾乎都是這份內在牽掛與它帶出的細心行動的不同比例組合。

原始詞典資料13 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。

Carename

  • 1

    A surname.

carenoun詞源 1/kɛə/

  • 1

    Close attention; concern; responsibility.

    • Care should be taken when holding babies.
    • I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.
  • 2

    Worry.

    • I don’t have a care in the world.
    • Yes, heaven, I’m in heaven / And the cares that hung around me through the week / Seem to vanish like a gambler’s lucky streak
  • 3

    Maintenance, upkeep.

    • dental care
    • Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
  • 4

    The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).

    • The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
  • 5

    The state of being cared for by others.

    • in care
  • 6

    The object of watchful attention or anxiety.

    • Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares.
  • 7

    obsoleteGrief, sorrow.

    • More health and happiness betide my liege / Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!
    • Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.

careverb詞源 2/kɛə/

  • 1

    To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).

    • She doesn’t care what you think.
    • I don’t care, I’m still going.
  • 2

    formalTo want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards or interested in.

    • Would you care for another slice of cake?
    • Would you care to dance?
  • 3

    informalTo be affected by, to treat as relevant for a subsequent course of action.

    • An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn’t care if there are any subscribers. It just fires the event and moves on.
  • 4

    (with for) To look after or look out for.

    • Young children can learn to care for a pet.
    • He cared for his mother while she was sick.
  • 5

    To mind; to object.

    • After introducing herself, the therapist then asked the patient if it would be all right to do the exercises which the doctor had ordered for her. The patient would response, "Well, I don't care to." For several days, the therapist immediately left the room and officially recorded that the patient had "refused" therapy. […] It was not until months later that this therapist […] discovered that she should have been interpreting "I don't care to" as "I don't mind" doing those exercises now.

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。