核心畫面

You can picture someone setting a thing firmly in place so it stands and lasts — establishing a rule, a plan, a practice. From that act of 'setting up something to stand', you get both the verb (to set up) and the noun (a set-up, standing body — an institute).

可以想成有人把一樣東西穩穩地立起來、讓它站著、長久存在:立下一條規矩、訂出一套做法。institute 的核心畫面比更多收起可以想成有人把一樣東西穩穩地立起來、讓它站著、長久存在:立下一條規矩、訂出一套做法。institute 的核心畫面比較像「設立、讓某物站立起來」這個動作;由這個動作既長出動詞(去設立),也長出名詞(一個被立起來、長期存在的單位——機構)。

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。

institutenoun詞源 1/ˈɪnstɪtjuːt/

  • 1

    An organization founded to promote a cause

    • I work in a medical research institute.
  • 2

    An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects

  • 3

    The building housing such an institution.

  • 4

    obsoleteThe act of instituting; institution.

    • water sanctified by Christ's institute
  • 5

    obsoleteThat which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.

    • They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.
    • to make the Stoic institutes thy own
  • 6

    lawThe person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.

    • Substitution is the nomination of substituted heirs, who take place, failing the institute.

instituteverb詞源 2/ˈɪnstɪtjuːt/

  • 1

    To begin or initiate (something); to found.

    • He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.
    • And haply institute / A course of learning and ingenious studies.
  • 2

    obsoleteTo train, instruct.

    • Publius was the first that ever instituted the Souldier to manage his armes by dexteritie and skil, and joyned art unto vertue, not for the use of private contentions, but for the wars and Roman peoples quarrels.
    • If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.
  • 3

    To nominate; to appoint.

    • We institute your Grace / To be our regent in these parts of France.
  • 4

    ecclesiasticallawlifestyleTo invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.

    • a writ issued to the bishop, to institute the clerk of that patron

instituteadj詞源 2/ˈɪnstɪtjuːt/

  • 1

    obsoleteEstablished; organized; founded.

    • They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice.

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