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    Especial means special: more important, more particular, not the ordinary kind. Though actually it is not the everyday twin of special. Special is the word most people reach for — a special price, special effects. Especial sounds a little older and more careful. You meet it in phrases like especial importance, especial interest, take especial care — extra care, more than usual. You can almost always say special instead; especial just puts a quieter, more formal coat on the same idea. The everyday adverb everyone uses is especially, built from this adjective.

    特別的、格外的(比 special 更書面;口語多用 special)

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組成From Middle English especial, through Old French especial, from Latin specialis, from species (“appearance, form”), from specere (“to look”). Doublet of special.

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  • specialdoublet: same Latin source, a slightly different path into English
  • especiallythe common adverb, especial + -ly
  • speciesfrom the same Latin species (“appearance, form”)

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especialadj/ɛsˈpɛʃəl/

  • 1

    Exceptional in importance or significance; special.

    • Pay especial attention to chapter five.
    • an especial hatred of cats
  • 2

    Particular.

    • acting with no especial goal
    • Only one modern picture was admitted, and that was a likeness of Constance, painted under her father's especial instructions.

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