喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture separate pieces being placed together to make one whole — and then two questions you can ask about that. Looking backwards: what pieces is this made of? Looking forwards: who put them there, and how are they arranged? The word answers both, which is why it covers the make-up of a committee, a piece of music, and where the mountain sits in a photograph.

可以想成：一些分開的東西被擺在一起，變成一個整體。接著你可以問兩個方向的問題——往回看：這是由哪些東西組成的？往前看…更多收起可以想成：一些分開的東西被擺在一起，變成一個整體。接著你可以問兩個方向的問題——往回看：這是由哪些東西組成的？往前看：是誰把它們擺成這樣、怎麼擺的？這個字兩邊都答，所以它能同時用在一個委員會的成員結構、一首曲子，還有一張照片裡那座山該放在哪。

From the picture

創作出來的作品

把「組合」看成一個人的動作：把音符、字句一個個放在一起，做出一個完整的東西——結果是作品，過程是創作。

musical/written work · noun · B1

A piece of music, a poem, or a piece of writing that someone has created.

作品

把元素安排在版面上

重點從「有哪些東西」移到「擺在哪裡」：同樣的元素換個位置就是另一個樣子，所以這一支講的是安排本身。

arrangement in a picture · noun · B1

The way the different parts of a photo or picture are placed and arranged.

構圖

Also in this word

makeup/parts of something · noun · B1

The parts, substances, or members something is made of, and how they are combined.

組成／成分

原始詞典資料20 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。

compositionnoun/ˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/

  • 1

    The act of putting together; assembly.

  • 2

    A mixture or compound; the result of composing.

    • Ste. What do'st thou know me for? Kent. A Knave, a Rascall, [...] one that would'st be a Baud in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a Kave, Begger, Coward, Pandar, and the Sonne and Heire of a Mungrill Bitch, one whom I will beate in to clamours whining, if thou deny'st the least sillable of thy addition.
    • The firſt day of November was dedicated to the angel preſiding over fruits, ſeeds, &c. and was therefore named la mas ubhal, that is, the day of the apple fruit, and being pronounced lamasool, the English have corrupted the name to lambswool, a name they give to a compoſition made on this eve of roaſted apples, ſugar, and ale.
  • 3

    The proportion of different parts to make a whole.

    • And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord.
  • 4

    The general makeup of a thing or person.

    • John of Gaunt. O how that name befits my composition! Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old: Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast; And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?
    • It seemed that the milk of human kindness had not been left out of his composition.
  • 5

    board-gameschessgamesA puzzle created by the composer using chess pieces on a chessboard, which presents the solver with a particular task.

  • 6

    obsoleteAn agreement or treaty used to settle differences; later especially, an agreement to stop hostilities; a truce.

    • It will stoope and yeeld upon better compositions to him that shall make head against it.
    • If the Duke, with the other dukes, come not to composition with the king of Hungary, why then all the dukes fall upon the king.
  • 7

    obsoleteA payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.

    • He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself made in the unchaste composition.
    • That all and every person and persons already convicted or prosecuted in order to conviction of recusancy […] shall be thenceforth exempted and discharged from all the penalties, seizures, forfeitures, judgments, and executions, incurred by force of any of the aforesaid Statutes, without any composition, fee, or further charge whatsoever.
  • 8

    obsoletelawA payment of money in order to clear a liability or obligation; a settling or fine.

另外 12 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    lawan agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.

  • 10

    An essay.

  • 11

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe formation of compound words from separate words.

  • 12

    A work of music, literature or art.

    • […] and how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard words, with all her family cares, is still more a matter of astonishment. Composition seems to me impossible with a head full of joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb.
  • 13

    mediaprintingpublishingTypesetting.

  • 14

    mathematicssciencesApplying a function to the result of another.

  • 15

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsThe compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force.

  • 16

    obsoleteConsistency; accord; congruity.

    • There is no composition in these news That gives them credit.
  • 17

    Synthesis as opposed to analysis.

    • The investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis ought ever to precede the method of composition.
  • 18

    artshobbieslifestyleThe arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.

  • 19

    Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.

  • 20

    video-gamesThe characters, roles, weapons, etc. being used by a team.

    • team composition
    • weapon composition

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。