核心畫面

Picture a hand on someone's back, walking them in through a door they have not been through before — into a job, a role, a new world with its own rules. Nothing is forced; they are led in. Every other use of induction is that same act of leading something in or drawing something out, just with a person, a baby, a current, or a conclusion at the far end.

可以想成一隻手輕輕搭在別人背後,帶著他走進一扇他還沒進過的門——進入一份工作、一個職位、一個有自己規矩的新世界。沒有更多收起可以想成一隻手輕輕搭在別人背後,帶著他走進一扇他還沒進過的門——進入一份工作、一個職位、一個有自己規矩的新世界。沒有人被推,是被「領」進去的。induction 其他的用法,可以看成同一個「把某樣東西引進來、引出來」的動作,只是門的另一頭換成了嬰兒、電流,或一個結論。

From the word’s history

Induction comes from Latin inductio, from inducere = in- ('into') + ducere ('to lead'), literally 'a leading in'. Its earliest English uses (late 14c.) were about formally installing someone in a religious post — leading a person into a position — and the same 'leading in / drawing out' picture is what later carried the word into logic (early 15c.) and into electricity (1801).

induction 來自拉丁文 inductio,拆開是 in-(進入)+ ducere(帶領),字面就是「領進來」。它最早在英文裡(十四世紀末)用在正式讓某人就任神職,也就是「把一個人領進一個位置」;後來這個「領進來、引出來」的畫面再被借去講邏輯上的歸納(十五世紀初)和電的感應(1801 年)。

Online Etymology Dictionary — https://www.etymonline.com/word/induction

From the picture

從外面引發、讓它開始

門的另一頭從「人」換成了「一個過程」:你沒有親手去做那件事,只是從外面引它一下,它就開始了。

induced labor · noun · B2

The process of helping a woman start giving birth by giving her a special medicine.

催生;引產

從一件件事實引出通則

這次被引出來的是一個想法:你手上有一堆看過的例子,順著它們把一條通則牽出來。

inductive reasoning · noun · B2

A way of thinking that uses known facts to form general rules or ideas.

歸納;歸納法

Also in this word

onboarding process · noun · B1

The process or ceremony that brings someone into a new job or organization.

入職訓練;就職

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。

inductionnoun/ɪnˈdʌkʃən/

  • 1

    An act of inducting.

    • I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance.
    • These promises are fair, the parties sure, / And our induction full of prosperous hope.
  • 2

    An act of inducting.

    • [Strom] Thurmond also condemned [Bayard] Rustin for having refusing ^([sic]) military induction as a conscientious objector.
  • 3

    An act of inducting.

    • Near-synonym: orientation
  • 4

    An act of inducing.

    • One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.
  • 5

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsAn act of inducing.

  • 6

    human-scienceslogicmathematicsAn act of inducing.

    • Meronym: abstraction
    • For the most part they contented themselves with repeating a few familiar facts or adding a few fresh theories ; they did not attempt a wide induction on the basis of a systematic collection and classification of the evidence.
  • 7

    mathematicssciencesAn act of inducing.

  • 8

    entertainmentlifestyletheaterAn act of inducing.

另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    embryologymedicinesciencesAn act of inducing.

  • 10

    engineeringmechanicalmechanical-engineeringAn act of inducing.

  • 11

    medicinesciencesThe process of inducing labour for the childbirth process.

  • 12

    obsoleteAn introduction.

    • This is but an induction: I'lldraw / The curtains of the tragedy hereafter.

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