喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a shape being laid over an outline that already exists, and matching it. The outline can be how everyone around you behaves, an official rule, or a pattern people expect — in each case, conform means falling into that shape rather than standing outside it.

可以想成：把一個形狀疊到一個已經畫好的輪廓上，剛好對上。那個輪廓可以是周圍所有人的行為方式、一條官方規定，或是大家預…更多收起可以想成：把一個形狀疊到一個已經畫好的輪廓上，剛好對上。那個輪廓可以是周圍所有人的行為方式、一條官方規定，或是大家預期的某種模式——不管哪一種，conform 講的都是「落進那個形狀裡」，而不是留在外面。

From the picture

符合規定或模式

輪廓從「別人的行為」換成一條明確的規定或一個已知的模式，動作一樣是對上它。

obey rules · verb · B1

to obey a law, rule, or official standard.

遵守；符合

Also in this word

fit in with others · verb · B1

To behave, dress, and think like most people around you, instead of standing out.

隨大流；遵從

原始詞典資料3 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。

conformverb/kənˈfɔːm/

  • 1

    To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.

    • There is a worm by Phoebus bred, By leaves of mulberry is fed, Which unprovided where to dwell, Conforms itself to weave a cell.
    • The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
  • 2

    To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.

    • [H]e had a dispensation for conforming in outward observances to the Protestant faith.
    • [B]y conforming to the dress and habits of the Gauchos, he has obtained an unbounded popularity in the country.
  • 3

    To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.

    • In height and breadth it conformed to the prescribed measurements laid down by the rules of the contest.
    • A judge in a Texas widow’s lawsuit over the Merck drug Vioxx reduced a $32 million jury award to about $7.75 million on Thursday so that it conformed to state law. […] But Judge Alex W. Gabert, in a Rio Grande City courtroom, ordered the punitive damage reduced to conform to a 2003 Texas law that caps punitive damages at twice the amount of economic damages — lost pay — and up to $750,000 on top of noneconomic damages.

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。