喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture carefully managing what you have — money, time, supplies — so that nothing is wasted and it all stretches as far as it can. That careful, no-waste handling of resources is the heart of economy. Zoom in and it's a single saving you make; zoom out to a whole country and it's the giant system of how everyone produces, sells, and uses money and goods; as an adjective it labels a product that gives you that same good value.

可以想成你小心地打理手上有的東西——錢、時間、物資——讓它一點都不浪費，能撐多遠就撐多遠。這種「精打細算、不浪費地管…更多收起可以想成你小心地打理手上有的東西——錢、時間、物資——讓它一點都不浪費，能撐多遠就撐多遠。這種「精打細算、不浪費地管理資源」的感覺，就是 economy 的核心。把鏡頭拉近，它是你做的一個省錢小動作；把鏡頭拉到整個國家，它就成了「大家怎麼生產、買賣、運用金錢和貨物」的那一整套龐大系統；當形容詞用時，則是替一個「同樣划算、不浪費」的產品貼標籤。

From the word’s history

From Greek oikonomia, 'management of a household' (oikos 'house' + nomos 'managing'). The original picture — running a household so resources are used well and nothing is wasted — is exactly the careful-management core that the modern senses, including a whole nation's 'household', grow out of.

源自希臘文 oikonomia，意思是「管理一個家」（oikos「家」＋ nomos「管理」）。最初的畫面比較像「把一個家打理好，讓資源用得恰當、不浪費」，這正是現代各個意思的核心；連「整個國家的經濟」也可以想成是把一整個國家當成一個大家庭來打理。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), 'economy'

Three branches

不浪費地管理資源

這一家直接坐落在核心畫面上：把錢、時間、東西用得精省、不浪費，以及為此而做的具體省錢動作。

thrift · noun · B2

Not wasting money, time, or goods, because you use them carefully.

節約

國家的經濟體系

把「管理資源」的鏡頭從一個家拉大到整個國家：一國要怎麼生產、買賣、運用它的金錢和貨物，就是它要打理的那盤大局。

national economy · noun · B2

The way a country produces, sells, and uses its money and goods; or a country looked at in this way.

經濟

划算的（形容詞）

把核心的「省、划算」拿來當標籤貼在產品上：這個東西因為買得多或設計得省，所以比較划算。

economy (adj, cheaper) · adjective · B2

Used before a noun to describe a product that is cheaper because you buy a larger amount.

經濟（划算）的

原始詞典資料12 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。

economynoun/ɪˈkɒ.nə.mi/

  • 1

    obsoleteEffective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.

    • animal economy, vegetable economy
  • 2

    obsoleteEffective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.

  • 3

    obsoleteEffective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.

    • the Jewish economy
  • 4

    obsoleteEffective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.

    • the economy of a poem
    • The place pleased them so much that they spent all their spare time there, scratching and cutting their names on the top of every tower; and at last, having exhausted all other places, finished up with inscribing H.EAST, T.BROWN, on the minute-hand of the great clock; in the doing of which they held the minute-hand, and disturbed the clock's economy.
  • 5

    The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.

  • 6

    Frugal use of resources.

    • economy of word
    • April 5, 1729, Jonathan Swift, letter to St. John I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease.
  • 7

    The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.

    • An economy open to free movement of capital can keep a fixed exchange rate, for example, only by subjugating monetary-policy goals to its defence—by raising interest rates sharply, say, when capital outflows put downward pressure on the currency. Yet the trilemma also implies that an economy can enjoy both free capital flows and an independent monetary policy, so long as it gives up worrying about its exchange rate. […] As advanced economies opened their monetary spigots to boost ailing economies, emerging-market complaints grew louder.
  • 8

    lifestylereligiontheologyThe method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .)

    • The economy of God is in Jesus Christ alone.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.

  • 10

    archaicManagement of one’s residency.

economyadj/ɪˈkɒ.nə.mi/

  • 1

    Cheap to run; using minimal resources; representing good value for money; economical.

    • He bought an economy car.
    • Economy size.

economyadv/ɪˈkɒ.nə.mi/

  • 1

    In or via the part of a commercial passenger airplane reserved for those paying the lower standard fares.

    • Numerous web sites have tips on how to fly economy.

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。