From the word’s history
From enjoy + -ment.
由 enjoy「享受」加 -ment 組成。
A way to picture it: enjoyment is what you get out of something good that is yours to have. Usually that is the warm feeling — you are eating the meal, hearing the music, and the pleasure is running through you while it happens. The formal sense keeps the having and lets the feeling fade into the background: you hold a right or good health, and you are free to use it.
原始詞典資料4 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。
enjoymentnoun/ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.mənt/
- 1
The condition of enjoying anything.
- Few activities better the enjoyment of a hearty meal eaten in good company.
- Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
- 2
An enjoyable state of mind; a feeling of satisfaction or delight from a situation.
- I experienced more enjoyment from summer camp than any part of school.
- All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts.
- 3
An activity that gives pleasure.
- Is it, haply, an idle occupation, or is the time ill-spent that is spent in roaming the world in quest, not of its enjoyments, but of those arduous toils whereby the good mount upwards to the abodes of everlasting life?
- 4
lawThe exercise of a legal right.
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