核心畫面

Picture several states each running their own daily affairs, but all bound together under one shared central government for the big things (defence, currency). 'Federal' describes that two-layer arrangement — and then, by extension, points to that top central layer itself.

可以想成好幾個州各自管自己的日常事務,但又一起綁在一個共同的「中央政府」底下,由它來管國防、貨幣這類大事。feder更多收起可以想成好幾個州各自管自己的日常事務,但又一起綁在一個共同的「中央政府」底下,由它來管國防、貨幣這類大事。federal 描述的就是這種「下面各州自治、上面有一個共享中央」的兩層結構;接著它也用來單指上面那一層——也就是中央政府本身。這兩個意思其實是同一個畫面,一個指整個架構,一個指架構裡最上層那一塊。

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。

Federalnoun

  • 1

    A member of a Federal Party

  • 2

    Someone on the Union side.

Federalname

  • 1

    A locality in the Byron council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.

federaladj/ˈfɛdəɹəl/

  • 1

    Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.

    • Yet the Romans, taking them [the Carthaginians] at an Advantage, vvhen they vvere in Streights; compell'd them, contrary to all Fœderal Right and Juſtice, by Nevv Articles, both to part with Sardinia, their Lavvful Territory, and alſo to pay them for the future, a Double Tribute.
  • 2

    Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.

    • That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; [...]
    • From April 1995 to May 1996, the Subcommittee on Crime of the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight jointly conducted an investigation into the actions of the Federal agencies involved in law enforcement activities near Waco, TX in late 1992 and early 1993 toward a group known as the Branch Davidians.
  • 3

    lifestylereligiontheologyRelating to covenantalism.

    • federal theology

federalnoun/ˈfɛdəɹəl/

  • 1

    A federal agent or (chiefly law-enforcement) official.

  • 2

    A federal agent or (chiefly law-enforcement) official.

  • 3

    historicalA Union soldier in the American Civil War.

  • 4

    A supporter of federation.

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