核心畫面
Think of 'figure' as a clear shape your eye or mind can pick out and pin down: first the written marks 0-9 that give a number a visible form, and from there the outline of a body, a notable person, or any shape on a page. The same word then jumps to the verb side — to make a thing's shape clear in your mind, i.e. to work it out.
可以把 figure 想成「一個能被看清、被定下來的形狀」。最原始的畫面比較像那些寫出來的符號 0–9：它們把抽象的…更多收起
可以把 figure 想成「一個能被看清、被定下來的形狀」。最原始的畫面比較像那些寫出來的符號 0–9：它們把抽象的數量變成眼睛看得見的形。從這個「看得出形狀」的核心，一邊長出『人的輪廓·身影·身材·名人』這類看得見的形體，一邊長出『數字·數據·金額』這類定下來的量；動詞那邊則是把一件事的「形狀」在腦中弄清楚——也就是算出、想出。原始詞典資料29 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。
figurenoun/ˈfɪɡə/
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A drawing or diagram conveying information.
- For example, while Figure 1 shows information for 516 visitor groups, Figure 3 presents data for 1,625 individuals. A note above each graph or table specifies the information illustrated. ... For example, although Joshua Tree NP visitors returned 525 questionnaires, Figure 1 shows data for only 516 respondents.
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The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
- a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble
- a coin that bears the figure of an angel
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A person, thing, or action representative of another
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
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The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
- He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.
- I made some figure there.
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obsoleteDistinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
- that he may live in figure and indulgence
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A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
- The origin of the corset is lost in remote antiquity. The figures of the early Egyptian women show clearly an artificial shape of the waist produced by some style of corset.
- She was cunningly dressed in a black, sheer gown with gold ornaments showing her figure to perfection.
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A numeral.
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A number, an amount.
- (i) in the 1966 edition of The Destruction of Dresden Irving contended that 135,000 were estimated authoritatively to have been killed and further contended that the documentation suggested a figure between 100,00 and 250,000;
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A shape.
- a geometrical figure, a plane figure, a solid figure
- Flowers have all exquisite figures.
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A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
- The muslin was of a pretty figure.
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Any complex dance moveᵂ.
- Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,[…]. It was with a palpable relief that he heard the first warning notes of the figure.
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A figure of speech.
- to represent the imagination under the figure of a wing
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human-scienceslogicmathematicsThe form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
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astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismA horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
- its quality, like those of all the rest, is determined by its position in the house of the astrological figure
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entertainmentlifestylemusicAny short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
- Here, Beethoven limits the syncopations and modifications of rhythm which are so prominent in the first and third movements, and employs a rapid, busy, and most melodious figure in the Violins, which is irresistible in its gay and brilliant effect[…]
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
figureverb/ˈfɪɡə/
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To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
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To come to understand.
- I can’t figure if he’s telling the truth or lying.
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To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
- We can figure on running a loss this year.
- 1. Gent. Thou art alwayes figuring diseases in me; but thou art full of error, I am sound.
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To be reasonable or predictable.
- It figures that somebody like him would be upset about the situation.
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To enter into; to be a part of.
- It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.
- The exchange rate figures heavily in several other aspects of Venezuela's economy.
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To represent in a picture or drawing.
- Although now to be met with in botanic gardens everywhere, there is a certain degree of interest attaching to the figure of it in B.M. 3,992 (1843), although that was by no means the first figure published, for Lambert, Sprengel, and Sir W. Hooker had previously figured it.
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obsoleteTo represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.
- If love, alas! be pain; the pain I bear, / No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.
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To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
- The vaulty top of heaven / Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
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obsoleteTo indicate by numerals.
- 1698 , John Dryden, Epitaph of Mary Frampton As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.
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To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
- whose white vestments figure innocence
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obsoleteTo prefigure; to foreshow.
- His loftie browes in foldes, do figure death, And in their ſmoothneſſe, amitie and life:
- In this the heaven figures some event.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicTo write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicTo embellish.
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。