核心畫面
Picture the moment a whole room turns to look because they already know your face. Not respect, not achievement — just being widely known. English uses one word both for that condition and for the person walking around inside it.
可以想成：你一走進來，整間人都轉頭看，因為他們早就認得你的臉。這裡面沒有評價成就多高、人品多好，就只是「很多人認得」…更多收起
可以想成：你一走進來，整間人都轉頭看，因為他們早就認得你的臉。這裡面沒有評價成就多高、人品多好，就只是「很多人認得」這個狀態。英文用同一個字裝兩樣東西：那個狀態本身，以及身上帶著那個狀態的人。今天最常聽到的是後者，但先抓住「被廣泛認得」這個畫面，兩個用法就串起來了。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。
celebritynoun/sɪˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ti/
- 1
obsoleteA rite or ceremony.
- 2
Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.
- Many of those that envy celebrities aspire to celebrity themselves.
- 3
A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person.
- "What do you put in your paper?" I asked, […] "Oh, news," said he, "and dull articles, and things about Celebrities. If you know any Celebrities, now?" Noël asked him what Celebrities were. "Oh, the Queen and the Princes, and people with titles, and people who write, or sing, or act—or do something clever or wicked."
- I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
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。