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Picture a pyramid and then a line drawn near the very top: the few above the line hold most of the power, the money, or the skill. Elite names that thin top slice — as a group when it is a noun, and as a label when it is an adjective. Note the tone can swing: praise in sport, but often criticism in .
可以想成：一座金字塔，靠近頂端畫一條線——線以上那極少數人握著大部分的權力、財富或本事。elite 講的就是那薄薄的…更多收起
可以想成：一座金字塔，靠近頂端畫一條線——線以上那極少數人握著大部分的權力、財富或本事。elite 講的就是那薄薄的一層：當名詞時指那群人，當形容詞時是貼在人或單位上的標籤。要留意它的語氣會擺盪：在運動場上是稱讚（頂尖的），在談政治和社會時卻常帶批評，暗示那群人離一般人太遠。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。
eliteadj/ɪˈliːt/
- 1
Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
- 2
Representing the choicest or most select of a group.
- Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen.
elitenoun/ɪˈliːt/
- 1
A special group or social class of people who have a superior social or economic status and attendant power, advantages, or privileges in society; a member of such a group.
- constituting an elite
- the hubris of the elites
- 2
An individual member of such a group.
- 3
Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
- The Nations League results have also seen England respond to an ongoing criticism that they fail to beat the top sides, with even Southgate insisting they could not be considered among the world's elite until they beat the best. The World Cup did nothing to answer those questions.
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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。