核心畫面
You can picture history as everything that has already happened, laid out behind us like a long road we've travelled. From that one idea grow three things: the events themselves, the study of them, and the written record that keeps them. The all play on the same picture — once something is 'in history', it's fixed in that road behind us and won't change.
可以想成「所有已經發生過的事，像一條我們走過來的長路，鋪在身後」。從這一個想法長出三樣東西：那些事件本身、研究它們的…更多收起
可以想成「所有已經發生過的事，像一條我們走過來的長路，鋪在身後」。從這一個想法長出三樣東西：那些事件本身、研究它們的學問、以及把它們記下來的文字。後面那些慣用語也都在玩同一個畫面——一旦某件事「進了歷史」，它就被釘在身後那條路上，再也改不了。原始詞典資料11 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。
historynoun/ˈhɪs.tə.ɹi/
- 1
The aggregate of past events, both unrecorded and recorded.
- The history of mammals stretches back many millions of years.
- History repeats itself if we don’t learn from its mistakes.
- 2
The empirical study of past events, as distinct from literature, myth, or scripture; the assessment of notable events.
- He teaches Latin American history at the university and publishes books about the Cold War.
- History and experience act as a filter that can distort as much as elucidate. It is largely forgotten now, overlooked in the one-line description of Tony Blair and George W Bush as the men who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but there was a wider context to their conviction.
- 3
The portion of the past that is known and recorded by this field of study, as opposed to all earlier and unknown times that preceded it.
- Near-synonym: ages
- in all of human history and prehistory
- 4
A set of events involving an entity.
- a long and sordid history
- What is your medical history?
- 5
A record or narrative description of past events.
- I really enjoyed Shakespeare's tragedies more than his histories.
- a short history of post-Columbian colonization
- 6
medicinesciencesA list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
- A personal medical history is required for the insurance policy.
- He has a history of cancer in his family.
- 7
computingengineeringmathematicsA record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
- I visited a great site yesterday but forgot the URL. Luckily, I didn't clear my history.
- When you do that, the browser window has no browser history, so it doesn't report a referrer page to the first site you visit.
- 8
informalSomething that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
- I told him that if he doesn't get his act together, he's history.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
- 9
Shared experience or interaction.
- There is too much history between them for them to split up now.
- He has had a lot of history with the police.
- 10
A historically significant event.
- You are witnessing history!
- We have a new president: Barack Obama. I never thought a black man would be elected. It's exciting! It's history!
historyverb/ˈhɪs.tə.ɹi/
- 1
obsoleteTo narrate or record.
- And therefore will hee wipe his Tables cleane, And keepe no Tell-tale to his Memorie, That may repeat, and Historie his losse
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。