核心畫面

Picture handing over money and getting the use of something for a while — the bike is yours this afternoon, not forever. Now swap the bike for a person's time and skill, and you have the other half of the word: you are not buying the person, you are paying for their work. Both halves share the same deal: money in, use of something for a period.

可以想成:你付一筆錢,換來一段時間的使用權——這台腳踏車今天下午是你的,但不是你的財產。接著把腳踏車換成一個人的時間更多收起可以想成:你付一筆錢,換來一段時間的使用權——這台腳踏車今天下午是你的,但不是你的財產。接著把腳踏車換成一個人的時間和專長,就是這個字的另一半:你買的不是那個人,而是他的工作。兩邊其實是同一筆交易——錢進去,換一段時間的使用。要注意英美用法不同:租東西英國人常用 hire,美國人多說 rent;聘人則兩邊都用 hire。

From the picture

付錢請人做事

同一筆交易,租的東西換成人的時間和專長:你沒有買下這個人,只是在一段期間裡取得他工作的成果。

hire (temporary job) · verb · B1

To pay someone to do a particular job, often for a short time.

聘請 / 雇用

Also in this word

rent (an item) · verb · B1

To pay money so you can use something, like a car or bike, for a short time.

租借 / 租

rental arrangement · noun · B1

An arrangement where you pay money to use something for a short time.

租用 / 出租

原始詞典資料12 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。

Hirename

  • 1

    A surname.

hirenoun詞源 1/ˈhaɪ(.)ə/

  • 1

    A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.

    • We pair up each of our new hires with one of our original hires.
    • Employment statistics, the other key indicator of Diversity & Inclusion performance, shows that almost 30% of new Southeastern hires are women.
  • 2

    The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.

    • When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire.
  • 3

    Payment for the temporary use of something.

    • The sign offered pedalos on hire.
  • 4

    obsoleteReward.

    • I vvill him reaue of armes, the victors hire, / And of that ſhield, more vvorthy of good knight; / For vvhy ſhould a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
    • I have five hundred crovvns, / The thrifty hire I ſav'd under your father […]

hireverb詞源 2/ˈhaɪ(.)ə/

  • 1

    To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

    • We hired a car for two weeks because ours had broken down.
    • “[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
  • 2

    To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

    • I do not mean to insist here on the disadvantage of hiring compared with owning, but it is evident that the savage owns his shelter because it costs so little, while the civilized man hires his commonly because he cannot afford to own it; nor can he, in the long run, any better afford to hire.
  • 3

    To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

    • The company had problems when it tried to hire more skilled workers.
    • The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
  • 4

    To exchange the services of for remuneration.

    • They hired themselves out as day laborers.  They hired out their basement for Inauguration week.
  • 5

    To accomplish by paying for services.

    • After waiting two years for her husband to finish the tiling, she decided to hire it done.
  • 6

    To accept employment.

    • They hired out as day laborers.
  • 7

    (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job

    • They hired a milkshake.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。