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A fiancée is the woman a man is going to marry: his promised wife after they have agreed to marry and before the wedding day.
A fiancée fiancée is指的是 the woman a man is going to marry一個男人即將迎娶的女人 after they have agreed to marry兩人已經答應要結婚 and before the wedding day婚禮還沒舉行之前 his promised wife(她)就是他的未婚妻
English took the word from French. In French, the extra -e on the end marks a woman; fiancé without that e is the man. English kept the spelling difference, which is why the two words look so alike and why mix them up.
English英文 took the word from French是從法文借來這個字的 In French在法文裡 the extra -e on the end字尾多加的那個-e marks a woman表示女性 fiancé without that e fiancé沒有那個e is the man指的是男性 English英文 kept the spelling difference保留了這個拼字上的差異 which is why這也是為什麼 the two words look so alike這兩個字長得這麼像 and why learners mix them up學習者常常搞混
Everyday talk often skips the French word altogether: my girlfriend, we're engaged, or my wife-to-be. Fiancée is the polished noun for a card or a formal sentence.
Everyday talk日常對話 often skips the French word altogether常常乾脆不用這個法文字 my girlfriend, we're engaged, or my wife-to-be而是說my girlfriend(我女朋友)、we're engaged(我們訂婚了),或my wife-to-be(我未來的太太) Fiancée fiancée is是 the polished noun for a card or a formal sentence卡片或正式句子裡比較講究的說法
Some modern writers would rather not lean on French gender endings and choose other wording, but the dictionary pair is still fiancé / fiancée. She is not a wife yet.
Some modern writers有些現代作者 would rather not lean on French gender endings不太想依賴法文的陰陽性字尾 and choose other wording會選別的說法 but但 the dictionary pair字典上的這一對詞 is still仍然是 fiancé / fiancée fiancé/fiancée She她 is not a wife yet還不是太太
原始詞典資料1 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。
fiancéenoun/fiˈɒ̃.seɪ/
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formalA woman who is engaged to be married; the woman to whom one is engaged.
- Toward the end of 1860, as told in his book, Lindley, together with his Portuguese fiancée Marie, a British friend he called “L.”, and a Greek friend B. Philip, joined the Taiping Army at Tianjing (Nanjing) — the capital of the Taiping Kingdom.
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。