核心畫面

One way to picture genuine: you hold something up and check whether the inside matches the label on the outside. If they match, it is genuine. The word almost always answers an unspoken question — could this be fake? — so it carries a faint shadow of the copy, the act, or the lie it is not.

可以想成 genuine 是把一樣東西拿起來對照:外面寫的、看起來的,跟裡面真正的東西是不是同一個?對得起來就是 g更多收起可以想成 genuine 是把一樣東西拿起來對照:外面寫的、看起來的,跟裡面真正的東西是不是同一個?對得起來就是 genuine。這個字幾乎都在回答一個沒說出口的疑問——「這會不會是假的?」——所以它身上總帶著一點「假貨、演戲、謊言」的影子,只是答案是「不是」。

From the picture

人和感情不是裝的

同樣是「裡外一致」,只是這次要對照的不是商品,而是人心:表現出來的情緒或態度,跟心裡真正的樣子是不是同一個。

sincere feeling · adjective · B2

A genuine feeling is one you really feel, not one you only pretend to have.

真誠的/真心的

Also in this word

authentic · adjective · B2

Something genuine really is what it looks like or claims to be.

真的/真正的

not fake · adjective · B2

Something that is real and not a copy made to trick people.

正品/真品

real example of its type · adjective · B2

Being a real example of its type, not a copy or an imitation.

道地的/貨真價實

原始詞典資料2 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。

genuineadj/ˈd͡ʒɛn.juː.ɪn/

  • 1

    Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native.

  • 2

    Not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated.

    • a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials; genuine friendship
    • […] and before you could say 'scissors' that customer had forgotten all about the genuine article, and was out of the shop with the bijoutry.

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