核心畫面
Picture a list of conditions on a form — old enough, lived here long enough, earning under this much — and a person being held up against that list. If every box ticks, they are in: not chosen yet, just allowed to be considered. The word marks that door being open to you, not the prize itself.
可以想成：申請表上有一排條件——年齡到了、住滿幾年、收入在某個數字以下——然後把一個人拿去對這排條件。全部對上，他就…更多收起
可以想成：申請表上有一排條件——年齡到了、住滿幾年、收入在某個數字以下——然後把一個人拿去對這排條件。全部對上，他就「進得了門」：還沒被選中，只是取得了被考慮的資格。eligible 標的就是那扇門對你開著這件事，不是你已經拿到東西。所以它幾乎都跟制度、規則、篩選有關。原始詞典資料3 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。
eligibleadj/ˈɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ.bəl/
- 1
Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something.
- 2
Worthy of being chosen (for marriage).
- an eligible bachelor
eligiblenoun/ˈɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ.bəl/
- 1
One who is eligible.
- Federal agencies report that only about 1 percent of eligible students take advantage of switching schools and fewer than 20 percent of eligibles receive extra tutoring.
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。