核心畫面
You can picture excellent as something that stands well above the ordinary line of 'good' — it rises out of the crowd to the top, so good that it makes you stop and notice. The word itself carries the feeling of 'this goes beyond'.
可以想成一個東西好到「超出一般水準」，從平常的「good（好）」往上拔高、冒出頭，好到讓你停下來注意它。這個字本身就…更多收起
可以想成一個東西好到「超出一般水準」，從平常的「good（好）」往上拔高、冒出頭，好到讓你停下來注意它。這個字本身就帶著「超過、突出」的味道——不是普通的好，而是高出一截的好。原始詞典資料5 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。
excellentadj/ˈɛk.sə.lənt/
- 1
Having excelled, having surpassed.
- 2
Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
- 3
Exceptionally good of its kind.
- Bill and Ted had an excellent adventure last week in preparation for their history exam.
- Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.
- 4
Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
- Elizabeth, therefore, who was an excellent hypocrite
- Their sorrows are most excellent.
excellentadv/ˈɛk.sə.lənt/
- 1
obsoleteExcellently.
- Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis, hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].
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。