核心畫面

You can picture a stamp coming down from someone with authority: a court, a city office, an inspector. Once the stamp lands, the thing under it has no future left. A person will not walk free, a house will not be lived in, a box of meat will not be sold. The word does not describe how anything looks or feels. It records the ruling, and the ruling is final.

可以想成一個有權力的人蓋下一個章:法院、市政府、稽查員。章一蓋下去,被蓋的那個對象就沒有以後了。人不會再走出來。房子更多收起可以想成一個有權力的人蓋下一個章:法院、市政府、稽查員。章一蓋下去,被蓋的那個對象就沒有以後了。人不會再走出來。房子不會再有人住。那箱肉不會再被賣掉。這個字不是在形容外表或感覺。它記錄的是那個決定,而那個決定是不能翻的。

Two branches

蓋在人身上的判決

章蓋在一個人身上,決定的是他的生命。

adjective · C1

Used about a person who a court has decided must be put to death, during the time before that punishment happens.

被判死刑的

蓋在東西上的判決

同一個章,蓋在建築或貨品上,決定的是它還能不能被使用。

adjective · B2

Used about a building that officials have checked and decided is not safe to live in or use, so it must be emptied and usually pulled down.

被判定不能使用的(建築)

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。

condemnedadj/kənˈdɛmd/

  • 1

    Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.

  • 2

    Having been sharply scolded.

    • Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.
  • 3

    Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.

    • I have written 'was' because it seems that Great British Railways, which has already survived a near-death experience when Harper took over as Transport Secretary in the autumn, may well be back in the condemned cell.
  • 4

    Officially marked uninhabitable.

    • And she also faces the risk and the probability that her home will be condemned

condemnednoun/kənˈdɛmd/

  • 1

    A person sentenced to death.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。