核心畫面

Take the verb find and add -ing, and you get a name for the thing left in your hands when the looking stops. Someone searched — through , through evidence — and this is what came out of the search. That is why the word keeps turning up wherever a careful process has to end in something people can point at and quote.

可以想成 find(找到)後面接上 -ing,變成「找完之後留在手上的東西」。有人去找了——翻問卷、聽證據——最後留更多收起可以想成 find(找到)後面接上 -ing,變成「找完之後留在手上的東西」。有人去找了——翻問卷、聽證據——最後留下來的那個東西,就是 finding。也因為這樣,凡是一段認真的過程要交出一個可以被引用的結果,這個字就會出現。

From the word’s history

The packet's Wiktionary entry gives it as find + -ing, from Middle English fyndyng and Old English findincge — literally the thing found.

本卷證據說 finding 等於 find 加上 -ing,可以往回追到中古英語 fyndyng、古英語 findincge。字面就是「被找到的那個東西」,這條線在今天的用法裡還看得見。

Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1084005973): 'From Middle English fyndyng, Old English findincge; equivalent to find + -ing.'

Two branches

查出來的東西

這一家貼著核心畫面:先有一段找的過程,最後交出可以被引用的內容。

noun · B2

A piece of information that comes out of a study, a survey, or an investigation — what the work showed. It is usually talked about in the plural, as findings.

研究結果

手作材料行裡的 findings

這一支跟「查出來的結果」沒有關係,只是同一個字。放在這裡是為了讓讀者知道它存在,不是為了把它接回核心畫面。

noun · C1

The small ready-made parts and supplies used in making or mending things by hand — in jewellery, the clasps, hooks, and rings; in shoemaking, the tools and materials the worker needs. Almost always plural: findings.

配件材料(手作)

原始詞典資料7 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。

findingnoun/ˈfaɪndɪŋ/

  • 1

    A result of research or an investigation.

  • 2

    lawA formal conclusion by a judge, jury or regulatory agency on issues of fact.

  • 3

    That which is found, a find, a discovery.

  • 4

    The act of discovering something by chance, an instance of finding something by chance.

  • 5

    Tools or materials used in shoe making or repair.

    • Boot and Shoe Findings and Leather Establishments[…] Yocum & Wilson, 225 n 2d st, Shoe Findings, Leather, Last, and Shoe Peg Warehouse
  • 6

    jewelrylifestyleA self-contained component of assembled jewellery.

    • They manufacture jewlers’ findings, morocco, plush and velvet jewelry cases, paper boxes, morocco boxes, jewelry cards, tags, etc.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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