喜樂美語

核心畫面

The oldest picture behind character is a stamping tool that presses a fixed mark into wax or metal — and then the mark it leaves. One picture for the modern word: every person, place, or story has a 'stamp' pressed into them that makes them recognisably themselves and unlike anything else. That stamp can be the whole make-up of a person (their personality), the special flavour of a place, or — going right back to the tool — an actual letter or sign printed on a page.

可以想成 character 最早是一把「印戳」——壓出固定圖案的刻印工具，以及它留下的那個印記。用在現代的這個字，…更多收起可以想成 character 最早是一把「印戳」——壓出固定圖案的刻印工具，以及它留下的那個印記。用在現代的這個字，核心畫面比較像：每個人、每個地方、每個故事身上都被壓了一個「戳記」，讓它一眼就認得出來、跟別的都不一樣。那個戳記可以是一個人整體的氣質（性格），可以是一個地方獨有的味道（特色），也可以一路退回到工具本身——紙上印出來的一個字母或符號。

原始詞典資料16 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。

characternoun/ˈkæ.ɹɪk.tə/

  • 1

    A being involved in the action of a story; a persona.

    • [I]n a tragedy, or epick poem, the hero of the piece must be advanced foremost to the view of the reader or spectator; he must outshine the rest of all the characters; he must appear the prince of them, like the sun in the Copernican system, encompassed with the less noble planets …
    • The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
  • 2

    A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; nature; phene.

    • A single locus governing the petal colour character was detected on the linkage group A2.
    • We were not able to ascertain the character of the relationship.
  • 3

    A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.

    • A study of the suspect's character and his cast iron alibi ruled him out.
    • A man of […] thoroughly subservient character
  • 4

    Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.

    • He has a great deal of character.
    • "You may not like to eat liver," said Calvin's father, "but it builds character."
  • 5

    A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.

    • Julius Caesar is a great historical character.
    • That bloke is such a character.
  • 6

    A written or printed symbol, or letter.

    • It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.
  • 7

    datedStyle of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.

    • an inscription in the Runic character
    • You know the character to be your brother's?
  • 8

    datedA secret cipher; a way of writing in code.

另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    computingengineeringmathematicsOne of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.

    • We'll start at the beginning, with the basic building blocks not just of emoji, nor even digital communication, but of all written language: characters and character sets.
  • 10

    informalA person or individual, especially one who is unknown.

    • We saw a shady character slinking out of the office with some papers.
    • That old guy is a real character.
  • 11

    mathematicssciencesAn assignment of complex numbers to each element of a group, in particular a finite abelian group. More precisely, a group homomorphism into the group of units of a field (usually ℂ).

  • 12

    Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.

    • in the miserable character of a slave
    • in his character as a magistrate
  • 13

    datedThe estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.

    • a man's character for truth and veracity
    • Her actions give her a bad character.
  • 14

    datedA reference given to a servant, attesting to their behaviour, competence, etc.

  • 15

    obsoletePersonal appearance.

characterverb/ˈkæ.ɹɪk.tə/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo write (using characters); to describe.

    • O Roſalind, theſe Trees ſhall be my Bookes, / And in their barkes my thoughts Ile charracter, / That euery eye, which in this Forreſt lookes, / Shall ſee thy vertue witneſt euery where.

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。