成為那個樣本
這一族的主詞是樣本本身：那個東西不必做什麼，它存在就代表了那個想法。
typify · verb · C2
To be a very typical example of a quality, idea, or kind of thing.
體現
核心畫面
One way to see it: an abstract idea is invisible until you hold up one concrete case and say 'like this'. Latin exemplum = a sample taken out of the batch. To exemplify is to make the sample carry the whole.
「舉起一個看得見的樣本，讓看不見的想法現身」。字根 exemplum 就是 example，原意是「從一批東西裡挑出…更多收起
「舉起一個看得見的樣本，讓看不見的想法現身」。字根 exemplum 就是 example，原意是「從一批東西裡挑出來的一份樣品」。抽象的東西——某種精神、某種問題、某種風格——本身沒有形狀，你講半天對方還是抓不到；這時你舉起一個具體的例子說「就像這個」，那個抽象的東西就落地了。exemplify 做的一直是這件事，差別只在那個樣本是「本來就存在的東西剛好是最好的樣本」，還是「你刻意拿出來給人看的樣本」。From the word’s history
From Latin exemplum "example, sample" (via Medieval Latin exemplificō). The -fy ending is 'to make'; so exemplify is literally 'to make into an example' — to turn a thing into the visible sample of an idea.
exemplify 從中世紀拉丁文 exemplificō 來，前面是 exemplum（例子、樣品），後面的 -fy 是「使成為」（如 simplify 使簡單、clarify 使清楚）。合起來就是「使某物成為例子」。認出 exempl- 就是 example，這個字就不用死記了；同一家還有 exemplary（堪為典範的）。
Wiktionary, "exemplify" (Middle English exemplifien < Medieval Latin exemplificō < Latin exemplum "example")
Two branches
拿出那個樣本
同一個樣本畫面，但鏡頭轉到「舉例的人」身上：不是東西自己代表，是有人把它舉起來。
give an example · verb · C2
To give an example of something, so that an idea or a problem is easier to see.
舉例說明
原始詞典資料4 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。
exemplifyverb/ɛɡˈzɛmplɪfaɪ/
- 1
To show or illustrate by example.
- This slowness is very detrimental to its adoption: I will exemplify—I had cured a lady of a tiny tumour m her nose; she was pleased and grateful, and subsequently brought to me her niece, on whom the doctors were about to operate for a small ovarian tumour; I cured this tumour also, but it occupied two years or thereabouts, and then aunt and niece both persuaded a friend, a lady residing at Shepherd’s Bush, to come to me. How long did I think it would take to cure her ovarian tumour? At least two years. I prefer the operation said she, that will only take six weeks. But it took less—she died under or shortly after the operation.
- 2
To be an instance of or serve as an example.
- [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
- Of course, closure of the West station took away the hotel's raison d'être. In May 2012, the local newspaper reported that this historic hotel, by then rated the town's worst (exemplified by its final review: "Please avoid at all costs"), was to be converted into 31 first-time-buyer one-bedroom flats.
- 3
To make an attested copy or transcript of (a document) under seal.
- 4
To prove by such an attested copy or transcript.
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。