核心畫面

You can picture one thing sitting so far above everything around it that the others stop counting. It doesn't have to fight — its size, strength or importance alone pushes the rest into the background. In a meeting, one voice keeps the floor and the others fall quiet; in a league, one team wins so often that the season stops feeling like a contest. Whatever else is present, the eye and the outcome both go to the same place.

可以想成一個東西高過周圍所有東西,高到別的都不算數了。它不一定要動手打架,光是體型、力量或份量擺在那裡,就把其他人事更多收起可以想成一個東西高過周圍所有東西,高到別的都不算數了。它不一定要動手打架,光是體型、力量或份量擺在那裡,就把其他人事物擠到背景去。開會時有個人一直握著發言權,其他人慢慢沒聲音;一支球隊贏太多次,整個賽季就不太像比賽了。這個畫面的重點不是「贏了一次」,而是「一直壓在上面」——目光和結果都往同一個地方去。

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。

dominateverb詞源 1/ˈdɒm.ɪ.neɪt/

  • 1

    To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power.

    • The title of this article evokes memories of the beginning of World War II and reveals one method dictators use to increase their power. In China’s case, Xi Jinping’s Anschluss of Hong Kong in June 2020 fits nicely with the way Hitler began his initial European expansion strategy, called Lebensraum (living space). In Zweites Buch, Hitler said that to dominate the world, Germany must expand its borders and areas it controls. The first way to start achieving Lebensraum would be through Anschluss — the unification of Austria and Germany. Further, he envisioned an expansion that would include Poland, Czechoslovakia, the rest of Europe and Russia.
  • 2

    To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone.

    • THE THREE DOMINANT FORMS IN METALSMITHING […] At present, there are but three basic volumetric forms dominating the work of metalsmiths, the spherical (usually in its most practical form, the domical), the cylindrical, and the cubical. […] The possibilities for further variations on them are all but exhausted, there being little chance to express new and unusual ideas within the framework of such limited choices. As a result, much of twentieth-century metalsmithing has relied on surface enrichment rather than formal development for its originality.
  • 3

    To enjoy a commanding position in some field.

    • Individual mistakes proved costly for Wigan who, particularly after the half-time introduction of Hugo Rodallega, dominated for long periods.
    • Halogen dominates standard bulb shipments, the association reported, representing almost half of the total, followed by CFLs at about 27 percent, a share that is on the decline.
  • 4

    To overlook from a height.

    • Our arrival at Worcester is heralded by the appearance of the city's cathedral tower, a solid square structure that's dominated the skyline since the 12th century.
  • 5

    computingengineeringgraph-theoryTo precede another node of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.

dominateadj詞源 2/ˈdɒmənət/

  • 1

    Dominant.

    • From the middle of June in 1913 and the first of July in 1914, it became the dominate species, forming 90 per cent. or more of the fauna, and remained so until the end of the season.
    • GM, 33, FEMME, very loving, caring, sensitive, sexual. I would love to hear from a fairly dominate butch type from the Portland Oregon area.

dominatenoun詞源 3

  • 1

    historicalThe late period of the Roman Empire, following the principate, during which the emperor's rule became more explicitly autocratic and remaining vestiges of the Roman Republic were removed from the formal workings of government; the reign of any particular emperor during this period.

    • During the Dominate this tendency was perfected to the point of dirigism in the modern sense, a state-directed society and state-controlled economy, obliterating, once again a prelude to modern times, the laissez-faire climate that had characterized the economic self-determination of the individual under the republic and the Principate.
    • 1996, Clare Krojzl (translator), Sebastian Hensel, III: From Diocletian to Alaric [1886, lecture notes], Theodor Mommsen (editor), A History of Rome Under the Emperors, C.H.Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Republished 2005, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), eBook, page 317, The dominate of Diocletian and Constantine differs more sharply from the principate than the latter does from the Republic.

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