核心畫面

You can picture someone who notices what another person needs or feels, and then actually does something about it. The word describes that turned-toward-you quality — in a person, in the atmosphere of a place, or in a way of doing things. From there it also becomes the standard label for the jobs built entirely out of that: nursing, social work, looking after children or older people.

可以想成一個人會注意到別人需要什麼、心裡是什麼感覺,然後真的動手去幫。caring 描述的就是那種「朝著你」的質地—更多收起可以想成一個人會注意到別人需要什麼、心裡是什麼感覺,然後真的動手去幫。caring 描述的就是那種「朝著你」的質地——可以是一個人身上的,也可以是一個地方的氣氛、一種做事的方式。從這裡再延伸一步,它就成了那一類完全建立在照顧別人之上的工作的固定說法:護理、社工、帶小孩或照顧長輩。

原始詞典資料3 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。

caringadj/ˈkɛə.ɹɪŋ/

  • 1

    Kind, sensitive, or empathetic.

    • She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.

caringnoun/ˈkɛə.ɹɪŋ/

  • 1

    The act of one who cares.

    • As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。