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核心畫面

Picture a journey: someone sets off, pays to be carried, eats what is provided along the way, and afterwards you ask how they got on. Every sense of fare sits somewhere on that journey — the old meaning of the word was simply 'to travel'.

可以想成：一趟旅程——有人出發，付錢讓人載，路上吃著備好的食物，之後你問他一路走得如何。fare 的每個意思都落在這…更多收起可以想成：一趟旅程——有人出發，付錢讓人載，路上吃著備好的食物，之後你問他一路走得如何。fare 的每個意思都落在這趟旅程的某個位置上，因為這個字最早的意思就是「旅行」。

From the word’s history

Fare goes back to Old English faran 'to journey, set forth, go, travel', and the noun to Old English fær 'journey, road, passage'. The original travel sense now survives mainly in compounds like wayfarer and seafaring. 'Food provided' is recorded from about 1200; the sense 'conveyance' by the early 15th century led on to 'payment for passage' (1510s), and 'person conveyed in a vehicle' by the 1560s.

fare 可以追到古英語動詞 faran（旅行、出發、走），名詞則來自古英語 fær（旅程、道路）。「旅行」這個原意現在主要留在 wayfarer（旅人）、seafaring（航海的）這類複合字裡。「提供的食物」約在1200年出現；「運送」的意思在十五世紀初形成，接著在1510年代衍生出「乘車付的錢」，1560年代再指「被載的人」。所以車費、乘客、食物和「過得如何」不是四個不相干的意思，而是同一趟旅程的不同段落。

Online Etymology Dictionary, entry 'fare' (etymonline.com/word/fare)

From the picture

路上供應的東西

旅程上供應的食物很早就叫 fare；後來這個「端出來給人享用的東西」也用在娛樂內容上：節目、電影也是端給觀眾的東西。

fare (food served) · noun · B1

Food of a particular kind, served in a place or at an occasion.

餐點／伙食

一路走得如何

這是最貼近原意的一支：問一個人「這趟走得怎麼樣」，就是問他過得如何、成果如何。旅程的畫面還在，只是問的是結果。

fare (get on, well or badly) · verb · B1

To do well or badly in a particular situation; to succeed or not succeed.

進展／過得（如何）

Also in this word

fare (cost of a trip) · noun · A2

The cost of a single trip by bus, train, plane, or taxi.

車費／票價

fare (taxi passenger) · noun · B1

A passenger in a taxi.

（計程車）乘客

原始詞典資料11 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。

farenoun詞源 1/ˈfɛə/

  • 1

    obsoleteA going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.

    • thoroughfare
  • 2

    Money paid for a transport ticket.

    • train fare
    • bus fare
  • 3

    A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.

  • 4

    Food and drink.

    • “[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
    • Bell pushes labelled "Steward" proved to be more than ornamental, even though gassy mineral waters may not be the ideal fare for a narrow-gauge journey.
  • 5

    Supplies for consumption or pleasure.

    • The television channel tended to broadcast unremarkable downmarket fare.
    • Just another channel that offers the usual fare of makeover programs and reruns of old sitcoms.
  • 6

    slangA prostitute's client.

fareverb詞源 2/ˈfɛə/

  • 1

    Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].

    • She fared badly in the accident.
    • Did you fare well in the exam?
  • 2

    Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].

    • We will continue to monitor how the hurricane fares against projected models.
    • He was a man of Spartan habits, and at sixty was scrupulous about his diet at your table, excusing himself by saying that he must eat sparingly and fare hard, as became a soldier or one who was fitting himself for difficult enterprises, a life of exposure.
  • 3

    Used to express evaluations [with adverbial complement].

    • We shall see how it fares with him.
    • So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
  • 4

    archaicTo go; to travel.

    • Behold! A knight fares forth.
    • […]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are stolne away, she being otherwhere.
  • 5

    archaicTo eat; to dine.

    • There was a certain rich man which […] fared sumptuously every day.

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。