核心畫面
Picture someone holding two options on an inner pair of scales, tipping them back and forth and refusing to let go until the balance settles. Everything the word does grows out of that weighing: you move slowly because you are still weighing, and whatever you finally do is no accident, because you weighed it first.
可以想成一個人把兩邊的份量放在心裡的天平上來回掂——不急著放手，先讓它擺穩了再說。這個「掂量」的動作是整個字的中心：…更多收起
可以想成一個人把兩邊的份量放在心裡的天平上來回掂——不急著放手，先讓它擺穩了再說。這個「掂量」的動作是整個字的中心：因為還在掂，動作就慢、就穩；也因為掂過才動手，那件事就絕不會是碰巧發生的。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。
deliberateadj/dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət/
- 1
Done on purpose; intentional.
- a deliberate attempt to cover up his crime
- The massacre of up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 was an act of genocide in a deliberate attempt by the Bosnian Serb leadership to exterminate part of the Muslim community, appeal judges ruled in a crucial case at the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague yesterday.
- 2
Formed with deliberation; carefully considered; not sudden or rash.
- a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result
- settled visage and deliberate word
- 3
Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; slow in determining.
- The jury took eight hours to come to its deliberate verdict.
- 4
Not hasty or sudden; slow.
- His enunciation was so deliberate.
deliberateverb/dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət/
- 1
To consider carefully; to weigh well in the mind.
- It is now time for the jury to deliberate the guilt of the defendant.
- 2
To consider the reasons for and against anything; to reflect.
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。