喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture economic as 'to do with how money flows through a whole system' — trade, jobs, prices, and how a country handles its goods and services. From that big picture of money in motion comes a narrower, down-to-earth use: something that 'makes money sense' because it pays for itself.

可以想成「跟金錢在整個體系裡如何流動有關」：貿易、工作、物價、一個國家如何運用它的商品與服務，都屬於這個畫面。從這個…更多收起可以想成「跟金錢在整個體系裡如何流動有關」：貿易、工作、物價、一個國家如何運用它的商品與服務，都屬於這個畫面。從這個「錢在大系統裡流動」的大圖像，再收斂出一個比較生活化的用法——某件事「划得來、養得起自己」。把這兩層連起來，核心都繞著「金錢的運作與值不值得」打轉。

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。

economicadj/ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪk/

  • 1

    Pertaining to an economy.

    • Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
    • There is much talk of tyranny in the political realm, but little is said about the tyrannies in the economic realm, a primary one being the tyranny of high costs: high costs crush the economy from within and enslave those attempting to start enterprises or keep their businesses afloat.
  • 2

    Frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value); economical.

  • 3

    Pertaining to the study of money and its movement.

  • 4

    obsoletePertaining to the management of a household

    • And doth employ her Oeconomick Art, and buisy Care, her Houshold to preserve

economicnoun/ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪk/

  • 1

    obsoleteThe art or science of household management, especially relating to the appropriate organization of resources; housekeeping.

  • 2

    obsoleterareOne who is skilled in household management.

  • 3

    obsoletehistoricalChristianityOne who manages the income of a vacant benefice.

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。