喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to picture historic: this one will be remembered — a building people preserve, a day people will still name years from now. English also has historical, which simply means 'to do with the past'; historic adds weight, historical does not.

可以想成 historic 是「這一個會被記住」：一棟被保存下來的老建築、一個多年後人們仍叫得出名字的日子。英文另有…更多收起可以想成 historic 是「這一個會被記住」：一棟被保存下來的老建築、一個多年後人們仍叫得出名字的日子。英文另有 historical，那只是「跟過去有關」；historic 多了分量，historical 沒有。

From the picture

屬於過去、有記載的

拿掉「重要」這一層，只留下時間位置：發生在過去、或屬於有文字記錄的那段時期。

belonging to the past · adjective · B1

Belonging to or coming from the past rather than the present.

過去的；歷來的

Also in this word

old and important place · adjective · B1

A historic place or building is very old and important because of its past.

有歷史的；古老的

significant in history · adjective · B1

Important enough that people will remember it as part of history.

歷史性的；劃時代的

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。

historicadj/hɪˈstɒɹɪk/

  • 1

    Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.

    • A historic opportunity
    • July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.
  • 2

    Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.

    • Sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham: the former is more historic.
  • 3

    Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)

    • An high-pac'd Muse treading a lofty march, leades honor enchaind in an Epique pen, grac'd with the furtherance of historique Clio.
  • 4

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsVarious grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.

    • The historic tenses include the imperfect, the pluperfect, and the future perfect.

historicnoun/hɪˈstɒɹɪk/

  • 1

    obsoleteA history, a non-fiction account of the past.

    • Before the beginnyng of this historic, I haue thought good by waie of a Proeme, to introduce the wordes of an excellent writer called Lodouicus Caelius Rhodoginus.
  • 2

    obsoleteA historian.

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。