1. 1捫心自問、自我省思(和較常見的 soul-searching 意思相近)

    Heart-searching is when you look hard at your own feelings and at why you did something. You turn the light inward and ask, Was I honest? Did I do this for a good reason? After much heart-searching means you thought about it for a long time, and it was not easy. Though actually, soul-searching is the phrase many people use more often, with the same meaning. Heart-searching sounds a little more British, a little more like a book than like talk. It is not a doctor looking at your real heart; it is you looking at the part of you that cares and chooses.

    heart-searching 是名詞,指仔細檢視自己的感受,並自問為什麼這樣做,例如我誠實嗎?我的理由是好的嗎?常見的句型是「after much heart-searching」,意思是經過很久的反覆思考,過程不輕鬆。很多人更常用意思相同、直譯為靈魂自省的說法。這個字聽起來比較英式,也比較偏書面,不太像日常口語。這裡的 heart 不是指心臟,而是指你在意與做選擇的那一部分。

組成heart(這裡指心情、本心)+ searching(仔細找、仔細看)。

同家族的字

  • hearthere, your feelings, not the organ in a medical sense
  • searchthe second piece: looking carefully
  • soul-searchingthe more common twin phrase, same idea

原始詞典資料1 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。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • heartsearching

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。