喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture things that were spread out being drawn in to one point — the same amount, but now packed into a much smaller space, so that point becomes dense and strong. That one move explains all the uses: pull your attention in and you are focusing; pull the water out of a juice and what is left is stronger.

可以想成：本來散在各處的東西被收攏到同一個點上——總量沒變，但擠進了小得多的空間，所以那一點變得又密又強。這個動作可…更多收起可以想成：本來散在各處的東西被收攏到同一個點上——總量沒變，但擠進了小得多的空間，所以那一點變得又密又強。這個動作可以解釋所有的用法：把注意力收攏就是專心，把果汁裡的水抽走，剩下的味道自然就濃了。

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把注意力收攏

被收攏的東西換成注意力：心思本來會四處跑，現在全部集中到眼前這一件事上。

concentrate, focus mentally · verb · B1

To think very carefully about the one thing you are doing, and not let your mind go to other things.

專心

抽掉水分變濃

這次收攏的是液體裡的成分：水被抽走，味道和顏色全擠在剩下的體積裡，於是變濃。

concentrate, reduce liquid · verb · B1

To make a liquid stronger in taste or colour by taking some of the water out of it.

濃縮

Also in this word

concentrate, gather in one place · verb · B1

If people or things concentrate in a place, or are concentrated there, there are a lot of them in that one place.

集中

原始詞典資料6 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。

concentrateverb詞源 1/ˈkɒn.sən.tɹeɪt/

  • 1

    To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

    • to concentrate rays of light into a focus
    • to concentrate the attention
  • 2

    To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.

    • to concentrate acid by evaporation
    • to concentrate by washing
  • 3

    To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.

    • Population tends to concentrate in cities.
    • Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
  • 4

    To focus one's thought or attention (on).

    • (oneself)
    • Let me concentrate!

concentrateadj詞源 2

  • 1

    concentrated

    • It is, when good, a concentrate yellow.
    • Subtracting the liters of concentrate fluid required in the diluted operation.

concentratenoun詞源 3

  • 1

    A substance that is in a condensed form.

    • orange concentrate

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。