核心畫面

The state of treating someone as an enemy. Not just dislike — a cold, hard stance that says 'you are on the other side', which can show as a look, a voice, a refusal, or eventually as gunfire.

「把對方當敵人」的那種姿態:不只是不喜歡,而是心裡已經畫了一條線,你在那邊、我在這邊。它可以只是眼神冷下來、講話帶刺更多收起「把對方當敵人」的那種姿態:不只是不喜歡,而是心裡已經畫了一條線,你在那邊、我在這邊。它可以只是眼神冷下來、講話帶刺,也可以放大成兩國真的開打。一種想法是,這個字量的是「敵對」的溫度——同一種東西,從一個房間裡的冷臉,一路可以升到戰場上的砲火。

From the word’s history

From Latin hostīlitās, from hostīlis 'of an enemy', from hostis 'enemy' (earlier 'stranger'). The modern word is literally 'enemy-ness'.

來自拉丁文 hostīlitās,源頭是 hostis「敵人」(更早的意思是「陌生人」)。所以 hostility 拆開來就是「敵人性」「敵對狀態」。有趣的是 hostis 早期指的是外來的陌生人——跟 hospitable 的 hospes 同源,只是走上了相反的路:一邊把陌生人請進門,一邊把陌生人當敵人。

Wiktionary (hostility, hostilis, hostis); Online Etymology Dictionary

Three branches

心裡的敵意

核心畫面最內在的一層:敵對還停在感覺和態度裡。

unfriendly feeling · noun · C2

Unfriendly feeling and anger towards another person.

敵意

對事情的強烈反對

同樣的敵對姿態,只是矛頭從「人」轉向「一個計畫或想法」。

strong opposition · noun · C2

Strong or angry disagreement with a plan, idea, or action.

反對

真的打起來

敵對從態度變成行動:線畫完了,接下來是開火。

warfare (hostilities) · noun · C2

Fighting in a war, almost always in the plural form hostilities.

戰事

原始詞典資料2 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。

hostilitynoun/hɒsˈtɪlɪti/

  • 1

    The state of being hostile.

    • My resentment and anger towards you caused hostility and a division between us.
    • There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.
  • 2

    A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.

    • As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.

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