- 1引發、產生（某種感受或局面）
When something engenders a feeling or a situation, it causes that feeling or situation to start and then grow. It is not a kitchen word. You do not engender a cake or a chair; you make those. You engender things you cannot hold: trust, fear, respect, anger, debate, confusion. Writers, teachers, and news people like it because it sounds careful and a little formal. In everyday talk, most people would just say cause or lead to. Though actually, the word is older than that polite use. For a long time it also meant to bring a child into the world, to beget. That baby-making sense is rare now and lives mostly in old books, but it explains the flavour of the modern word: something is being brought into being, not just knocked over like a domino. The subject is often a situation, a habit, or a way of treating people, not a single bang. Kindness can engender trust slowly. Unfair rules can engender anger fast.
組成From the prefix en- plus gender, through Middle English engendren and Old French engendrer, from Latin ingenerāre (to implant, to beget). The gender piece here is the old “bring into being” sense, not today’s male-or-female meaning.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
engenderverb詞源 1/ɪnˈdʒɛn.də/
- 1
obsoleteTo beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
- O Error ſoone conceyu’d, Thou neuer com’ſt vnto a happy byrth, But kil’ſt the Mother that engendred thee.
- 2
To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
- Like all interesting literary figures, he is full of tacit as well as of uttered reference to the conditions that engendered him[…].
- 3
To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
- ME thinkes vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations vnto goodneſſe, which in vs are ingendered.
- Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee.
- 4
To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
- Thick Clouds are ſpread, and Storms engender there, And Thunders Voice, which wretched Mortals fear, And Winds that on their Wings, cold Winter bear.
- 5
obsoleteTo copulate, to have sex.
- But that the bodies of the Reprobate, who make the Kingdome of Satan, ſhall alſo be glorious, or ſpirituall bodies, or that they ſhall bee as the Angels of God, neither eating, nor, drinking, nor engendering[…], there is no place of Scripture to prove it[…]
- I fled, but he purſu’d (though more, it ſeems, Inflam’d with luſt then rage) and ſwifter far, Me overtook his mother all diſmaid, And in embraces forcible and foule Ingendring with me, of that rape begot Theſe yelling Monſters that with ceaſleſs cry Surround me, as thou ſawſt[…]
engenderverb詞源 2/ɪnˈdʒɛn.də/
- 1
To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
- Gender, they emphasize, is socially constructed by our surroundings. We are en-gendered by our families, our teachers, and by the images in our music, films, media and fashions.
- As such they are an important way of understanding both how texts are engendered (how they articulate particular sex or gender role) and how they engender their consumers.
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