核心畫面

You can picture a heated feeling of guarding: you treat some person or thing as 'mine', and the moment someone else moves in on it — or has the thing you want — something tightens inside. Around a loved one it comes out as the when they seem to notice someone else.

可以想成一種帶著熱度的「守」的心情:你把某個人或某樣東西當成「我的」,一旦有別人靠近它、或別人擁有你想要的,心裡就揪更多收起可以想成一種帶著熱度的「守」的心情:你把某個人或某樣東西當成「我的」,一旦有別人靠近它、或別人擁有你想要的,心裡就揪一下。放在所愛的人身上,就是看到對方好像注意到別人時,那一陣吃味。

From the word’s history

Jealous comes through Old French from Late Latin zelosus, from zelus 'zeal', from Greek zēlos 'ardor, eager rivalry' — the same root that gives us 'zealous'. That inner heat is the thread: jealousy is zeal turned toward keeping (or wanting) something you feel should be yours.

jealous 經古法語來自晚期拉丁文 zelosus,源於 zelus「熱忱」,再往上是希臘文 zēlos「熱切、爭勝之心」——跟 zealous(熱心的)同一個根。那股「心裡的熱」就是貫穿的線:嫉妒其實是把這股熱勁,轉向去守住、或去爭取一樣你覺得該屬於自己的東西。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com/word/jealous); zelus / Greek zēlos, shared root with 'zealous'

Two branches

守著「屬於我的」人事物

核心那股「守」的熱度,向內收——護著自己已經擁有、在乎的東西。

envious of attention · adjective · B1

Feeling angry or upset because someone you love seems to like or notice another person.

吃醋的

眼紅別人擁有的

同一股熱度轉了方向:不是守住已有的,而是望向別人手上、你也想要的東西。

envious of possession · adjective · B1

Feeling upset or angry because someone else has something you want.

嫉妒的/羨慕的

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。

jealousadj/ˈd͡ʒɛl.əs/

  • 1

    Suspecting rivalry in love; troubled by worries that one might have been replaced in someone's affections; suspicious of a lover's or spouse's fidelity.

    • jealous lover
    • She gave him a jealous look.
  • 2

    Protective; zealously guarding; careful in the protection of something (or someone) one has or appreciates, especially one's spouse or lover.

    • Thou ſhalt not bow downe thy ſelfe to them, nor ſerue them: For I the Lord thy God am a iealous God, viſiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me:
    • Soft Simon had reduced himself to the lowest class of Stalkos, or walking gentlemen, as they are termed; men who have nothing to do, and no fortune to support them, but who style themselves esquire; and who […] are jealous of that title, and of their claims to family antiquity.
  • 3

    Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise.

    • be jealous of someone/something
    • He was jealous of his friend’s success.
  • 4

    Suspicious; apprehensive.

    • I began my fence or wall; which, being still jealous of my being attacked by somebody, I resolved to make very thick and strong.
    • At length […] the Duke demanded to know of Durward who his guide was, […] and wherefore he had been led to entertain suspicion of him. To the first of these questions Quentin Durward answered by naming Hayraddin Maugrabin, the Bohemian; […] and in reply to the third point he mentioned what had happened in the Franciscan convent near Namur, how the Bohemian had been expelled from the holy house, and how, jealous of his behaviour, he had dogged him to a rendezvous with one of William de la Marck's lanzknechts, where he overheard them arrange a plan for surprising the ladies who were under his protection.

jealousverb/ˈd͡ʒɛl.əs/

  • 1

    slangTo harass or attack (somebody) out of jealousy.

    • If I go back, he starts his jealousing again. Drinking and jealousing.
    • Jealousing can take place: You may notice some of your fellow female co-workers that can be jealousing you.
  • 2

    To deliberately make (someone) jealous of another person's (often their partner's) associations with other people.

    • […] where the victim of an assault had been 'jealousing' the offender about her sister.

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