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If you are clear-sighted, you understand a problem or a situation well. You see what is really going on, not only what people hope is going on.
If you are clear-sighted,如果你是clear-sighted的,you understand a problem or a situation well.代表你把一個問題或情況看得很清楚。You see what is really going on,你看到的是真正發生的事,not only what people hope is going on.不只是大家希望發生的事。
It is not about your eyes. It is about judgement: you notice the hard parts, the likely results, the thing other people are pretending not to see.
It is not about your eyes.這個字跟你的眼睛無關。It is about judgement:它講的是判斷力:you notice the hard parts, the likely results,你注意到困難的部分、可能的結果,the thing other people are pretending not to see.還有別人假裝沒看到的事。
More careful writing likes this word; in everyday talk people often just say she sees things clearly. It is a compliment, and it often describes someone who has to choose a path when things are messy.
More careful writing likes this word;比較講究的寫作喜歡用這個字;in everyday talk people often just say she sees things clearly.日常對話裡大家通常就直接說she sees things clearly她把事情看得很清楚。It is a compliment,這是個讚美,and it often describes someone who has to choose a path when things are messy.通常用來形容在混亂局面裡還得做決定的人。
Though actually, being clear-sighted can sound a little cold, because it may mean telling a truth nobody wants.
Though actually, being clear-sighted can sound a little cold,不過其實,clear-sighted聽起來可能有點冷酷,because it may mean telling a truth nobody wants.因為它可能代表要說出一個沒有人想聽的真相。
組成clear (not cloudy) + sighted (able to see). The seeing here is in the mind, not in the eyes.
同家族的字
- short-sightedsame -sighted pattern; also used for not thinking about later
- far-sightedsame pattern: looking ahead and planning well
- clear-sightednessthe noun built from this adjective
原始詞典資料2 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。
clear-sightedadj
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Having sharp vision.
- 2
Acutely perceptive or discerning; perspicacious.
- Who can form even a likely guess as to what is to succeed, even the best-informed and clearest-sighted Russian, except as to his own immediate neighborhood? The proceedings of one neighborhood cannot in the least be inferred from those of another.
- Even the clearer-sighted prisoners make their own compromises with reality. An amiable artist (Lon Huber) had left his hiding place for a walk even though he knew the danger, while the best-informed of the lot, a Marxist electrician (Tim O’Hare), lives his own life as a historical abstraction amid a larger class struggle.
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。