喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a hand going up, or a mark going onto a ballot: one option is picked out of several and that pick is binding. Voting is the main home of the word; the same act of deliberately picking also shows up when a person chooses a course of action, and in the label worn by someone already chosen but not yet in post.

可以想成：一隻手舉起來，或選票上打了一個記號——好幾個選項裡挑出一個，而這個挑選算數。投票是這個字的主場；同樣「刻意…更多收起可以想成：一隻手舉起來，或選票上打了一個記號——好幾個選項裡挑出一個，而這個挑選算數。投票是這個字的主場；同樣「刻意挑一個」的動作，也用在一個人決定要走哪條路的時候，以及那個已經選上、但還沒上任的人身上。

From the picture

審慎地選擇去做

沒有選票，但同樣是從幾個做法裡挑一個，而且是想過之後才決定的。

choose to do · verb · B2

formal: to choose to do a particular thing, especially after thinking about it carefully.

選擇（做某事）

Also in this word

choose by voting · verb · B2

to choose a leader or representative for an official position by voting.

選舉；選出

not yet in office · adjective · B2

used after a noun to say that someone has been chosen for a job or position but has not started it yet.

候任的；當選尚未就職的

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。

electnoun/ɪˈlɛkt/

  • 1

    One chosen or set apart.

  • 2

    lifestylereligiontheologyIn Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.

    • Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth.
    • Shall not God avenge his won elect?

electverb/ɪˈlɛkt/

  • 1

    To choose or make a decision (to do something).

  • 2

    (Of a group) to officially select one or more candidates in an election to hold office.

    • President Obama in a speech this past week said that we should solve the nation's bee problem. Oh, God, we elected a guy who sympathizes with bees?

electadj/ɪˈlɛkt/

  • 1

    Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

    • He is the President elect.
    • She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect.
  • 2

    Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.

    • colours quaint elect
    • the elect angels

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。