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The gist of something said or written is the main idea — the heart of it, not every small point. If you “get the gist,” you understand enough: what they were getting at, even if you missed a word or two. People use it in speech and in fairly easy writing. You would not usually say “the gist” when you mean a careful, complete summary for a test; you mean the rough centre of the meaning. There is also a newer computer use: a gist on GitHub is a small saved piece of code or text. That is a brand name (from 2008) that people now use as an ordinary noun, and it is not the everyday school meaning.
大意、要旨、重點
組成From Old French gist, a noun from gesir “to lie down” (modern French gésir), from Latin iacēre / iaceō “to lie.” In old law French, a phrase like “(this) action lies” — meaning the case can be brought — used gist. English took the noun from that idea of what “lies” at the heart of a matter. The uncommon verb comes from the noun. The programming sense is a genericized trademark of GitHub Gist (2008).
原始詞典資料8 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。
gistnoun詞源 1/d͡ʒɪst/
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The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or more complicated matter; the crux, the heart, the pith.
- I don't wanna belabor my point; I'm sure you get the gist.
- Should they live and build their church in the American wilderness, their worst dangers would rise in and among themselves rather than outside. That was the gist of the lesson from their pastor and "wellwiller" John Robinson.
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datedlawThe essential ground for action in a lawsuit, without which there is no cause of action; the gravamen.
- [T]heſe charges, of a traiterous or felonious intent, are the points and very giſt of the indictment, and muſt be anſvvered directly, by the general negative, not guilty; […]
- [H]e is guilty of a dereliction of opinions that are true and laudable. This is the great giſt of the charge againſt him.
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Gossip, rumour; (countable) an instance of this.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA sharable snippet of source code, especially on the version controlled pastebin-hosting site GitHub Gist.
- For a simple illustration of the issue, take a look at this gist.
- Every gist created is a tiny repository. You can update gists and see the history using git log. You can download gists, hack on the repository, […]
gistverb詞源 1/d͡ʒɪst/
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To extract and present the main ideas or substance, or the most essential parts of (a document, piece of writing, etc.); to abridge, to summarize.
- There are two general ways of getting information, and these two general ways may be summed up in this: take one branch of study and its principles are all gisted, they have been gisted by the accumulated thought of years gone by. These gisted thoughts are axioms, or received principles, and the pupils of the day take these axioms or principles, and accept them as facts, and apply them to this, that or the other individual case.
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To talk idly; chat; also, to gossip.
gistnoun詞源 2/d͡ʒɪst/
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obsoleteA stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest.
- Theſe Quailes have their ſet giſts, to vvit, ordinarie reſting and baiting places.
- But the Conſul after that he had intelligence that Perſeus had croſſed over to Samothracia, departed from Pella, and at the fourth giſt and journey that he made, came to Amphipolis.
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 Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。