喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture handing someone a clear set of steps and expecting them to be followed — not a suggestion, not a chat, but content passed down from a position that has the standing to pass it. That single act splits according to what is being handed over: steps to carry out, a skill to learn, a fact to be told, or the brief you hand a lawyer when you take them on.

可以想成：你把一套清楚的步驟交到某人手上，並且預期他會照著做——不是建議，也不是閒聊，而是從一個「有資格交代」的位置…更多收起可以想成：你把一套清楚的步驟交到某人手上，並且預期他會照著做——不是建議，也不是閒聊，而是從一個「有資格交代」的位置遞出去的內容。這一個動作會隨著遞出去的東西而分岔：可能是要執行的步驟、要學會的技能、要被告知的事實，或是你委任律師時交給他的那份說明。

Two branches

正式交代要做的事

核心那一面：內容是「該怎麼做」，而且是從有權交代的一方發出。

tell what to do · verb · B2

to officially tell someone what they must do, often with clear steps.

指示；吩咐

把知識或技能交到對方手上

遞出去的東西從「步驟」換成「本事」或「消息」，動作和位置都沒變。

teach a skill · verb · B2

to teach someone something, or show them how to do it, especially a practical skill.

教導；指導

原始詞典資料6 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。

instructverb/ɪnˈstɹʌkt/

  • 1

    To teach by giving instructions.

    • Listen carefully when someone instructs you how to assemble the furniture.
    • Supply me with the habit and instruct me How I may formally in person bear me Like a true friar.
  • 2

    To tell (someone) what they must or should do.

    • Usage note: "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise"
    • The doctor instructed me to keep my arm immobilised and begin physiotherapy.
  • 3

    To give (one's own lawyer) legal instructions as to how they should act in relation to a particular issue; thereby formally appointing them as one's own legal representative in relation to it.

    • If you're not careful, I'm going to instruct a solicitor over this.

instructnoun/ɪnˈstɹʌkt/

  • 1

    obsoleteInstruction.

instructadj/ɪnˈstɹʌkt/

  • 1

    obsoleteArranged; furnished; provided.

    • For he had neither ship, instruct with oares, Nor men to fetch him from those stranger shores.
  • 2

    obsoleteInstructed; taught; enlightened.

    • Who ever by consulting at thy shrine Return’d the wiser, or the more instruct To flye or follow what concern’d him most, And run not sooner to his fatal snare?

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。