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From the word’s history

Middle English former, comparative of forme 'first', from Old English forma; related to first and fore.

forme「第一」的比較級，意即「更前面」；和 first、fore 同源。

Wiktionary

Picture a line running back in time, and you standing at the far end of it: former points at the part behind you — how something was, before it stopped being that way. The word always carries the quiet second half "…but not now". Applied to a list of two, the same backward point picks out the one mentioned first.

可以想成：時間拉成一條線，你站在線的這一頭，former 指的是身後那一段——某樣東西以前的樣子，而且它現在已經不是那樣了。這個字永遠自帶一句沒說出口的「但現在不是了」。同樣是往回指，如果指的是剛剛講過的兩件事，它就落在先被提到的那一個上，也就是「前者」。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

同家族的字

formers

意思相近

previouspupiloldstudentearliersixth formerone-timeex-past

用法接近

lastformpastsixth formformerlyyear groupretiredgraderoutgoing

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

formeradj詞源 1/ˈfɔɹmɚ/

  • 1

    Previous.

    • A former president
    • the former East Germany

formernoun詞源 1/ˈfɔɹmɚ/

  • 1

    First of aforementioned two items.

    • The former is a good idea but the latter is not.
    • We have two cars, a red one and a blue one. We won the former on a game show.

formernoun詞源 2/ˈfɔɹmɚ/

  • 1

    Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder.

    • Dave was the former of the company.
  • 2

    An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die.

    • The brick arch was built using a wooden former.
  • 3

    Someone in, or of, a certain form (class).

    • Fifth-former.
    • Sixth-former.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。