喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a dark room where you keep bumping into things, and then someone switches the light on. Nothing in the room has moved, but now you can see what is actually there. Enlightened always describes a person with that light already on. What changes between the meanings is only what the light is pointing at: a subject, other people, or life itself.

可以想成一個暗暗的房間，你在裡面一直撞到東西。然後有人把燈打開了。房間裡什麼都沒有移動，可是你現在看得見東西實際上在…更多收起可以想成一個暗暗的房間，你在裡面一直撞到東西。然後有人把燈打開了。房間裡什麼都沒有移動，可是你現在看得見東西實際上在哪裡。enlightened 說的永遠是「燈已經亮著」的那個人。三個意思的差別，只在那盞燈照的是什麼：照一個題目、照旁邊的人、還是照整個人生。

Three branches

燈照在題目上：看得清楚

這一支最貼近字面：光進來，事情就看得清楚，話也講得出根據。

adjective · B2

Showing that you know or understand a lot about something, so that what you say or choose rests on real knowledge instead of on nothing.

有見識的

燈照在別人身上：待人公道

看得清楚之後，就不會再死守看不出理由的老規矩，對人的方式也跟著改。

adjective · B2

Having fair, kind and modern ideas about how people should be treated, and acting on them. It is used about a person, a group, or the way something is run.

開明的

燈照在人生上：開悟

同一盞燈，這次照的不是某個題目，而是整件事——生命是怎麼回事。

adjective · C1

Having reached a deep understanding of life, so that you are no longer fooled by your own wishes, fears or false ideas. It is used about people in Buddhism and in other religious traditions.

開悟的

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。

enlightenedadj/ɪnˈlaɪtənd/

  • 1

    Educated or informed.

  • 2

    Made aware of something.

  • 3

    Freed from illusion.

    • Yet in the worst, there is still a divine spark of Universal consciousness buried deep within them, and in the best people, except for the enlightened ones, there is still the seed of selfishness.
  • 4

    Extraordinarily wise; having an exceedingly great wisdom.

    • An enlightened mind does not need external authority.
    • Such were the sources of an opulence which we must do Raleigh the credit to say was expended not on debauchery or display, but in the most enlightened efforts to extend tlie field of English commercial enterprise beyond the Atlantic.

enlightenednoun/ɪnˈlaɪtənd/

  • 1

    Someone who has been introduced to the mysteries of some activity, religion especially Buddhism

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。