- 1nB2
/feɪm/
The state of being known and talked about by many people because of what you have done.
名氣／名聲
核心畫面
Picture your name travelling further than you do — strangers in another city already know who you are, because of something you made or did. Fame is that state of being widely talked about. It sits on what you did, not on whether people approve.
可以想成：你的名字跑得比你本人還遠——你沒去過的城市裡，已經有人知道你是誰，因為你做過某件事、拍過某部戲、寫過某首歌…更多收起
可以想成：你的名字跑得比你本人還遠——你沒去過的城市裡，已經有人知道你是誰，因為你做過某件事、拍過某部戲、寫過某首歌。fame 講的就是這種「被很多人知道、被拿出來談」的狀態。它建立在你做了什麼上面，本身不帶好壞評價，所以描述的是廣度，不是敬不敬佩。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。
famenoun/feɪm/
- 1
archaicSomething said or reported; gossip, rumour.
- There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour […].
- If the accused could produce a specified number of honest neighbours to swear publicly that the suspicion was unfounded, and if no one else came forward to contradict them convincingly, the charge was dropped: otherwise the common fame was held to be true.
- 2
One's reputation.
- 3
The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of, especially for something positive.
- I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.
- I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
fameverb/feɪm/
- 1
to make (someone or something) famous
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。