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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)
組成From Middle English especial, through Old French especial, from Latin specialis, from species (“appearance, form”), from specere (“to look”). Doublet of special.
同家族的字
- specialdoublet: same Latin source, a slightly different path into English
- especiallythe common adverb, especial + -ly
- speciesfrom the same Latin species (“appearance, form”)
原始詞典資料2 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。
especialadj/ɛsˈpɛʃəl/
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Exceptional in importance or significance; special.
- Pay especial attention to chapter five.
- an especial hatred of cats
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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.
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。