- 1nC1
/ɪˌvæljuˈeɪʃən/
A careful judgment of how good, useful, or successful something is, reached by weighing the evidence.
評估/評價
複數 evaluations
核心畫面
You hold a thing or a person's work in your hands and weigh it: how good is it, how useful, how much is it worth? An evaluation is the careful judgment you reach after looking at the evidence — not a first impression, but a considered verdict on worth.
可以想成你把一件事情、或一個人的表現拿到手上,仔細掂一掂:它到底好不好、有沒有用、值多少。evaluation 就是…更多收起
可以想成你把一件事情、或一個人的表現拿到手上,仔細掂一掂:它到底好不好、有沒有用、值多少。evaluation 就是「掂完之後給出的判斷」——不是隨口說喜歡或討厭,而是看過證據、對照過標準後,慎重地下出「這值多少」的結論。From the word’s history
From French évaluer: é- "out" + value, and value traces to Latin valere "be worth, be strong." To evaluate is literally to draw out the worth of something — still the core move today.
evaluation 來自法文 évaluer,é-(向外)+ value(價值),而 value 的字根是拉丁文 valere「有價值、強而有力」。所以 evaluate 字面上就是「把一件事的價值抽出來、算出來」——今天講 evaluation,核心動作仍是「替某樣東西定出它值多少」。
etymonline.com/word/evaluation ; etymonline.com/word/value
原始詞典資料3 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。
evaluationnoun/ɪˌvæljuˈeɪʃn̩/
- 1
An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.
- The result of the semestral evaluation will go towards your final score.
- 2
mathematicssciencesA completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.
- 3
computingengineeringmathematicsDetermination of the value of a variable or expression.
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。