核心畫面

Picture an object placed where people are meant to look at it — on a , behind glass, under a light. Somebody deliberately put it there to be seen. That deliberateness is the heart of the word: it separates exhibiting from merely having something lying around, and it carries over when what is put on view is a quality rather than an object, or when the room is a courtroom rather than a gallery.

可以想成:一樣東西被放在「就是要給人看」的位置上——台座上、玻璃櫃裡、燈光下。是有人刻意把它擺在那裡的。這份刻意就是更多收起可以想成:一樣東西被放在「就是要給人看」的位置上——台座上、玻璃櫃裡、燈光下。是有人刻意把它擺在那裡的。這份刻意就是這個字的核心:它區分了「展示」和「東西剛好放在那裡」。當被擺出來給人看的不是物品而是某種特質,或是場地從美術館換成法庭,這份刻意仍然在。

From the picture

把看不見的特質顯露出來

被擺出來給人看的換成抽象的東西:情緒、症狀、行為模式——它們同樣是「顯露在外、看得到」的,只是沒有實體。

exhibit (show a quality) · verb · C1

(formal) To show a particular quality, feeling, or type of behavior.

表現出;顯露出

法庭上呈給法官看的東西

同樣是「刻意擺出來給人看」,只是觀眾換成法官和陪審團,目的從欣賞變成證明。

exhibit (court evidence) · noun · C1

(law) An object or document that is shown to a court as evidence.

呈堂證物

Also in this word

exhibit (show publicly) · verb · B2

To show something, such as art or products, to the public in a place like a museum, gallery, or show.

展示;展出

exhibit (displayed object) · noun · B2

An object, or a group of objects, that people can look at in a place like a museum or an exhibition.

展覽品;展示品

exhibit (exhibition, AmE) · noun · C1

(especially American English) A public event where art, products, or other things are shown to people; an exhibition.

展覽(美式英文)

原始詞典資料9 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。

exhibitverb/ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/

  • 1

    To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.

    • He wanted to exhibit his baseball cards.
    • Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
  • 2

    To demonstrate.

    • The players exhibited great skill.
    • And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.
  • 3

    lawTo submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.

    • I now exhibit this bloody hammer.
  • 4

    To put on a public display.

    • Will you be exhibiting this year?
  • 5

    medicinesciencesTo administer as a remedy.

    • to exhibit calomel

exhibitnoun/ɪɡˈzɪbɪt/

  • 1

    An instance of exhibiting.

  • 2

    That which is exhibited.

    • Mention must be made of the Valdres Folk Museum, situated just outside the town—one of those fascinating open-air museums for which Scandinavia is justly famed, to which have been transplanted a number of ancient buildings, such as farmhouses and storehouses, full of appropriate furniture, costumes and other exhibits.
  • 3

    A public showing; an exhibition.

    • The museum's new exhibit is drawing quite a crowd.
  • 4

    lawAn article formally introduced as evidence in a court.

    • Exhibit A is this photograph of the corpse.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。