喜樂美語

核心畫面

The root is 'to draw / write / scratch a line'. Picture something drawn out fully, line by line, so clearly you can see every detail — that is the heart of graphic.

可以想成：一條一條線把東西「畫出來、描出來」。核心畫面比較像：一個景象被描繪得清清楚楚、細節齊全，讓你眼前彷彿真的看…更多收起可以想成：一條一條線把東西「畫出來、描出來」。核心畫面比較像：一個景象被描繪得清清楚楚、細節齊全，讓你眼前彷彿真的看見。graphic 的兩個意思都從這個「畫得很清楚」長出來。

From the word’s history

From Greek graphikos 'of drawing or writing', from graphein 'to scratch, draw, write' (PIE root *gerbh- 'to scratch, carve'). This drawing/depicting root feeds both the 'graphic design' sense and the 'so vividly depicted' sense (the vivid sense in English from the 1660s, the drawing sense from 1756).

來自希臘文 graphikos（關於書寫、繪畫），源自動詞 graphein「刻、畫、寫」（更早的印歐字根 *gerbh- 意為刮、刻）。這個「畫、描繪」的字根，同時長出「和繪圖有關」和「描寫得歷歷在目」兩種意思。

etymonline.com/word/graphic

Two branches

圖像・繪圖（字面）

最貼近字根的一面：直接和「用線條、圖畫把東西呈現出來」有關。

of pictures/design · adjective · B2

Connected with drawing, painting, printing, or designing the way pictures and words look.

圖像的／繪圖的

生動・露骨（比喻）

把「畫得清清楚楚」從真的圖畫，轉用到文字或畫面的描寫上。

vivid, explicit detail · adjective · B2

Showing or describing something very clearly and with a lot of details, especially details that are unpleasant.

生動的／露骨的

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。

graphicadj/ˈɡɹæfɪk/

  • 1

    Drawn, pictorial.

    • The design team has created a new graphic language for the promotional material of this campaign.
  • 2

    Explicit, vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence.

    • We are not publishing these images because of the graphic nature of the content.
    • In the bodycam footage he is heard using graphic language to berate her.
  • 3

    Relating to or reminiscent of graphic arts.

    • That practice started on a 2018 visit to Ethiopia, where he encountered Jimma thrones, hewn from a single piece of wood with graphic cutouts.
  • 4

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesHaving a texture that resembles writing, commonly created by exsolution, devitrification and immiscibility processes in igneous rocks.

    • graphic granite

graphicnoun/ˈɡɹæfɪk/

  • 1

    A drawing or picture.

  • 2

    A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.

    • I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing.
  • 3

    A moth of the subfamily Melipotini.

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。