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You can think of it as the weight that settles on someone who knows they did wrong — heavy, private, and slow to lift. The same word also names the outside version of that: the finding that they really did it. So guilt covers both what a person feels and what a court decides.
可以想成：guilt 是做錯事之後壓在心上的那塊重量——你自己知道，而且那個知道不會馬上散掉。英文用同一個字講兩邊：…更多收起
可以想成：guilt 是做錯事之後壓在心上的那塊重量——你自己知道，而且那個知道不會馬上散掉。英文用同一個字講兩邊：裡面的那份重量，和外面認定的那件事實。法庭上問的不是你難不難過，而是事情究竟是不是你做的；兩邊都叫 guilt，只是一邊在心裡，一邊在紀錄上。原始詞典資料6 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。
guiltnoun詞源 1/ɡɪlt/
- 1
Responsibility for wrongdoing.
- 2
lawThe state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.
- 3
Regret for having done wrong.
- Appropriate guilt is experienced when we actually do something objectively wrong—for example, exploit another, betray a trust, and so on. […] Inappropriate guilt occurs from believing a lie and is resolved by an application of the truth.
guiltverb詞源 2/ɡɪlt/
- 1
obsoleteTo commit offenses; act criminally.
guiltverb詞源 3/ɡɪlt/
- 1
informalTo cause someone to feel guilt, particularly in order to influence their behaviour.
- He didn't want to do it, but his wife guilted him into it.
- Shame based parents would have guilted him for expressing anger.
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。