核心畫面

A good way to picture it: a light is on inside your head, and it is falling on something. Cold, nerves, another person watching — these can all happen without you noticing. The moment they enter your attention, you are conscious of them.

比較像:腦子裡的燈是亮著的,而且照到了某樣東西。conscious 講的一直是「知道」這件事本身——你不只是身在其中更多收起比較像:腦子裡的燈是亮著的,而且照到了某樣東西。conscious 講的一直是「知道」這件事本身——你不只是身在其中,你還察覺到它。冷、緊張、有人在看你、自己剛才做了什麼,這些都可能在你沒注意時發生;當它們進入你的注意範圍,你就 conscious of 它們了。從這盞燈可以往兩邊走:往內問「燈亮著嗎」(清醒),往外問「照到什麼、照多久」(刻意、在意、意識層面)。

From the word’s history

From Latin cōnscius (con- 'with' + sciō 'know'), first used in English around 1573 meaning 'aware of one's own wrongdoing' — the inner knowing only you have. That sense of knowing-inside is still the base of the modern word.

拉丁文 cōnscius 由 con-(一起)+ sciō(知道)組成,原意接近「與人共知」,最早在英文裡(約 1573 年)用的是「知道自己做了壞事」——那份只有你自己知道的內在覺察。這個「自己心裡有數」的畫面比較像今天 conscious 的底:重點從來不是事情發生了,而是你心裡照見了它。同源的 conscience(良心)保留了最初那層道德味道。

Lexico (Oxford), archived entry for 'conscious'; Latin cōnscius < con- + sciō

From the picture

照到了什麼

燈亮之後的下一個問題:它照到哪裡去了。這一家講的是覺察的內容。

aware; conscious of · adjective · C1

Noticing or realizing something, often a feeling, a fact, or a person near you.

意識到的

把注意力持續放在上面

覺察不只是一瞬間的照見,它可以被你握住、用來指揮行動——這一家是覺察轉成了行為的方向盤。

conscious; deliberate · adjective · C1

Done on purpose after you have thought about it; not happening by chance. Used especially with effort, decision, attempt, and choice.

刻意的

Also in this word

conscious (awake) · adjective · C1

Awake and able to understand what is happening around you, especially after an illness, a fall, or an operation.

清醒的

原始詞典資料7 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。

consciousadj/ˈkɑn.ʃəs/

  • 1

    Alert, awake; with one's mental faculties active.

    • The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully conscious.
  • 2

    Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.

    • The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious.
    • Only highly intelligent beings can be fully conscious.
  • 3

    Aware of, sensitive to; observing and noticing, or being strongly interested in or concerned about.

    • I was conscious of a noise behind me. a very class-conscious analysis
    • Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
  • 4

    Deliberate, intentional, done with awareness of what one is doing.

    • He candidly confesses that it is an effort to account for Joseph Smith upon some other hypothesis than that he was a conscious fraud, bent on deceiving mankind.
    • Start fresh, try and learn from past mistakes, make a conscious effort to be a better person.
  • 5

    Known or felt personally, internally by a person.

    • conscious guilt
  • 6

    rareSelf-conscious, or aware of wrongdoing, feeling guilty.

    • He coloured very deeply, and giving a momentary glance at Elinor, replied, “Yes; it is my sister’s hair. The setting always casts a different shade on it, you know.” Elinor had met his eye, and looked conscious likewise..
    • They found Aunt Carrol with the old lady, both absorbed in some very interesting subject ; but they dropped it as the girls came in, with a conscious look which betrayed that they had been talking about their nieces.

consciousnoun/ˈkɑn.ʃəs/

  • 1

    The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.

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