喜樂美語

核心畫面

Taking something from where it is and putting it higher. The lifting can be physical — a leg propped on a cushion — or it can be a rank, a status, a temperature, a number. In every case the word is formal: it is the word a doctor or a report uses, where ordinary speech would just say 'raise' or 'put up'.

可以想成：把某樣東西從原本的位置往上放。抬高的可以是實體的——腳墊在枕頭上——也可以是地位、職級、溫度、數值。共通的…更多收起可以想成：把某樣東西從原本的位置往上放。抬高的可以是實體的——腳墊在枕頭上——也可以是地位、職級、溫度、數值。共通的一點是語氣：這個字偏正式，是醫囑和報告會用的字，日常說話多半只會說 raise 或 put up。

From the picture

地位往上提

抬高的變成看不見的高度：職位、身分、品質。畫面還是往上放，只是這次的「高」是階級或價值上的高。

raise in rank · verb · B2

To give a person or thing a higher place, rank, or quality than before.

提升；提拔

Also in this word

lift to a higher position · verb · B2

to lift someone or something to a higher position.

抬高；抬起

raise a level · verb · B2

To make a measurable amount or level go higher.

升高；提高

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。

elevateverb詞源 1/ˈɛləveɪt/

  • 1

    To raise (something) to a higher position.

    • The doctor told me elevating my legs would help reduce the swelling.
    • The Grace or Blessynge of the table to be sayed of chyldren standynge before it, thyr handes eleuated and ioyned to gyder
  • 2

    To promote (someone) to a higher rank.

    • Hard Fate of Greatness, We so highly Elevated Are more expos’d to Censure than the little ones,
    • Nothing can set the regal character in a more contemptible point of view, than the various crimes that have elevated men to the supreme dignity.
  • 3

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo promote (someone) to a higher rank.

    • Did you forget that all programs that modify the registry need to be elevated?
  • 4

    To confer honor or nobility on (someone).

    • The traditional worldview elevates man as the pinnacle of creation.
    • For loftie type of honour through the glaunce Of enuies dart, is downe in dust prostrate;
  • 5

    To make (something or someone) more worthy or of greater value.

    • A talented chef can elevate everyday ingredients into gourmet delights.
    • […] if you encourage a young Beginner, who knows but he may elevate his stile a little,
  • 6

    To direct (the mind, thoughts, etc.) toward more worthy things.

    • […] the devout Christian improves the Blessings he receives of this inferiour World, to elevate his mind above it:
    • On the whole I would regard serious art as a means to elevate the emotions and educate the spirit […]
  • 7

    To increase the intensity or degree of (something).

    • Some drugs have the side effect of elevating your blood sugar level.
  • 8

    datedTo increase the intensity or degree of (something).

    • […] the Uncle had more than once elevated his Voice, so as to be heard down Stairs;
    • “We’ll see to that,” Wolf Larsen answered, and elevated his voice in a call of “Cooky!”
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoleteTo lift the spirits of (someone)

    • […] Hope elevates, and joy Bright’ns his Crest,
    • 1759, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, Part 1, Section 2, Chapter 1, p. 20, It gives us the spleen […] to see another too happy or too much elevated, as we call it, with any little piece of good fortune.
  • 10

    datedTo intoxicate in a slight degree; to make (someone) tipsy.

    • Steele entertained them till he was tipsy; when the same wine that stupified him, only served to elevate Addison, who took up the ball just as Steele dropt it, and kept it up for the rest of the evening.
    • [Johnson,] from drinking only water, supposed every body who drank wine to be elevated
  • 11

    obsoleteTo attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.

    • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, London: Richard Royston, Volume 1, Chapter 4, Rule 2, p. 126, […] the Arabian Physicians […] endevour to elevate and lessen the thing [i.e. belief in the virgin birth of Jesus], by saying, It is not wholly beyond the force of nature, that a Virgin should conceive […]

elevateadj詞源 2/ˈɛləvət/

  • 1

    obsoleteElevated, raised aloft.

    • 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, London: Richard Grafton, Henry VII, year 6, The sayde crosse was .iii. tymes deuoutly eleuate, and at euery exaltacion, ye Moores beyng within the cytie, roared, howled and cryed,
    • Others apart sat on a Hill retir’d, In thoughts more elevate,

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。