- 1莊重、分量（氣質上的，不是物理「重力」）
A seriousness of manner that makes people take you seriously — not loud, not , a kind of weight in how you stand and speak. News writers love it for judges, leaders, actors in heavy roles: she has gravitas. It is a formal, slightly loan from Latin; in ordinary talk you might just say someone is serious, or has presence. Though actually, it is not the same as being cold or . A person can be warm and still have gravitas. It is also not the science word gravity, even though the two are twins from Latin. Gravity kept the ‘heaviness / pull of the Earth’ meaning; gravitas kept the ‘weight of character’ meaning. You will not hear children say it much. You will hear it in newspapers and speeches.
組成Borrowed from Latin gravitās, ‘weight, heaviness’. Doublet of gravity: same Latin source, two English words now. Latin gravis meant heavy.
同家族的字
- gravitya doublet from the same Latin gravitās; gravity later became the everyday science word for the Earth’s pull
- gravethe adjective only — a grave voice, a grave mistake — from Latin gravis ‘heavy’, not the burial noun
- gravitatefrom the same Latin ‘heavy’ family: to be pulled toward something
- gravitationthe scientific name for that pulling force
原始詞典資料2 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。
gravitasnoun/ˈɡɹævɪtɑs/
- 1
Seriousness in bearing or manner; dignity.
- “Because he refuses to level with the American people about the dangers which he has placed American troops and our diplomatic corps, personnel and civilians, as well as our partners and allies, or demonstrated even a modicum of presidential gravitas, I will attempt to do that,” said Mr. Biden, who is one of 14 candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.
- 2
Substance, weight.
- The other campaign against Ms. Yellen has been subtler, involving repeated suggestions — almost always off the record — that she lacks the “gravitas” to lead the Fed. What does that mean? […] Sorry, but it’s hard to escape the conclusion that gravitas, in this context, mainly means possessing a Y chromosome.
- Unlike most moons of the solar system, ours has the heft, the gravitational gravitas, to pull itself into a sphere.
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。