- 1萬事通(什麼都會一點;中文常補一句「樣樣不精」,語氣才對得上)。
A jack-of-all- is someone who can do many different kinds of work. The sting, which English often leaves hanging in the air, is that they are not very skilled at any one of them. The old full line is “jack of all , master of none.” Jack here is the ordinary man; are kinds of work or craft, not the stock market. In real talk the feeling moves around. Sometimes it is fond: this is the neighbour who can fix a bike, paint a room, and cook, and you are glad they exist. Sometimes it is a polite way to say “spread thin” or “not an expert.” Younger, kinder speakers may push back and treat it as praise for being useful in many places. You still need your ear: in a job interview it can sound like “no deep skill,” even if the speaker smiles. Informal. There is no single formal job title that matches it.
組成Jack (ordinary man) + of all trades (every kind of work). Trade here means a craft or job, not buying and selling.
同家族的字
- tradehere a kind of work or craft, the same piece as in tradesman
- jack-in-the-boxsame Jack as a stand-in for an ordinary person
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- jack of all trades
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。