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The inception of a company, school, hospital, or other organisation is the moment it first starts to exist. You almost never use this word about a person, a day, or a small everyday job; it belongs to formal writing, and it nearly always appears in the set phrase since its inception, meaning from the very first day that group was founded. Ordinary speech just says start, beginning, or founding.
The inception of a company, school, hospital, or other organisation一間公司、學校、醫院或其他機構的 inception is the moment it first starts to exist是它第一次開始存在的那個時刻。You almost never use this word about a person, a day, or a small everyday job這個字幾乎不會用在一個人、一天,或一件日常小事上;it belongs to formal writing它屬於正式寫作,and it nearly always appears in the set phrase since its inception而且幾乎都出現在固定片語 since its inception 裡,meaning from the very first day that group was founded意思是從那個機構成立的第一天算起。Ordinary speech just says start, beginning, or founding日常說話就直接說 start、beginning,或 founding。
Though actually, many students meet the word first from a 2010 film, where inception meant planting an idea in someone’s mind by going down through layers of dreams. That film use is newer and special.
Though actually不過其實,many students meet the word first from a 2010 film很多學生第一次認識這個字,是從一部2010年的電影,where inception meant planting an idea in someone's mind裡面 inception 的意思是把一個想法植入某人腦中,by going down through layers of dreams透過層層的夢境。That film use is newer and special那種電影裡的用法比較新、也比較特別。
If a news story says a bank has grown since its inception in 1962, there are no dreams in the sentence — it only means since the bank was set up. There is a rare verb incept, but people do not use it in normal English.
If a news story says a bank has grown since its inception in 1962如果一則新聞說一家銀行自 1962 年 inception 以來一直在成長,there are no dreams in the sentence句子裡沒有任何夢境的意思——it only means since the bank was set up它只是說從這家銀行成立以來。There is a rare verb incept有一個少見的動詞 incept,but people do not use it in normal English但一般英文裡大家並不會這樣用。
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。
inceptionnoun/ɪnˈsɛpʃən/
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The creation or beginning of something; the establishment.
- From its inception, the agency has been helping people obtain and properly install car seats for children.
- To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.
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A layering, nesting, or recursion of something within itself.
- Well it's the… Mr. Introspective / I'm a dreamer's dream, a sort of an inception
- I look at you, I see my reflection / Three levels deep, this is inception
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。