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Picture a row of ordinary cases and one that will not sit in the row — it has to be pulled out and treated on its own. That standing-outside is the whole word. English then leans two ways with it: usually the one pulled out is far better than the rest, but sometimes it is simply a case that hardly ever comes up.
可以想成：一整排普通的例子裡，有一個放不進去，得單獨拿出來處理。這個「站在隊伍外面」就是整個字的意思。英文接著往兩邊…更多收起
可以想成：一整排普通的例子裡，有一個放不進去，得單獨拿出來處理。這個「站在隊伍外面」就是整個字的意思。英文接著往兩邊倚：多數時候，被拿出來的那一個是好得多的；但有時候，它只是「很少發生」的那種情況。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。
exceptionaladj/ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
- 1
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
- What an exceptional meal!
- 2
educationForming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
- The origins of the conditions and disorders that exceptional learners have are not always well understood.
- 3
Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
- The quality of the beer was exceptional.
- 4
geometrymathematicssciencesCorresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
- an exceptional curve; an exceptional divisor
exceptionalnoun/ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
- 1
An exception, or something having an exceptional value
- Above and beyond all these exceptionals, by reason of divergencies from the norms of mental and of physical status, there are quite a number of moral defectives.
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。