1. 1n/ken/理解範圍

    The range of what a person knows or understands — used almost only in the phrase 'beyond your ken'.

    ken 是「一個人知道、理解得到的範圍」,幾乎只出現在固定片語 beyond your ken(超出你的理解範圍)。單獨用 ken 很少見,帶點文言、老派的味道;平常想說「不懂」用 don't understand 就好。

    示範例句 · Example

    How the huge machine actually worked was quite beyond my ken.

    中文翻譯那台巨大的機器實際上是怎麼運作的,完全超出了我的理解範圍。

    常見搭配

    • beyond someone's ken

      超出某人的理解範圍

      outside what someone can know or understand

      The maths was beyond my ken.

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From Middle English kennen, from Old English cennan 'to make known', causative of cunnan 'to know'; related to can.

源自古英文 cennan「使知道」,和 can 同源。

Wiktionary

Picture the edge of the little circle of light your mind can reach — everything inside it you know and understand. 'Ken' is that circle of knowing, and it lives almost only in 'beyond your ken': something that has fallen outside the light, too far for you to grasp.

可以想成你的心智能照亮的一小圈範圍:圈內的事你懂、你知道、你搆得著。ken 就是這圈『所知所懂的範圍』。這個字幾乎只活在 beyond your ken 這個片語裡——指某件事掉到那圈光之外、遠得你抓不住、理解不了。

原始詞典資料14 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。

Kenname詞源 1/kɛn/

  • 1

    A diminutive of the male given name Kenneth.

    • The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.
  • 2

    Kensington in London.

    • Kensington High Street — better known as High Street Ken after the nearby tube — is dominated architecturally by […]
    • The ladies (and gentlemen) of South Ken and Chelsea do like their raw food, and Daphne's does a terrific tuna tartare with avocado and wild fennel, black figs, gorgonzola and hazelnuts; […]
  • 3

    Synonym of Ken doll.

    • After the ceremony, the "Barbies and Kens" (excluding Tommy and Britney) gathered at Lindsay's mansion to have a barbeque party. They laughed and talked about good times and vowed to remain friends forever.

Kenname詞源 2/kɛn/

  • 1

    A surname.

kenverb詞源 1/kɛn/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).

    • To the soul this ghostly bread is the learning and the teaching and the understanding in the commandments of God, wherethrough the soul is kenned and lives.

kenverb詞源 2/kɛn/

  • 1

    To know, perceive or understand.

    • It was noted by them that kenned best that her cantrips were at their worst when the tides in the Sker Bay ebbed between the hours of twelve and one.
    • Johnny: Is your name Maggie? / Maggie: How'd you ken that? / Johnny: It's just a hunch. Are you looking for the, uh, petulant dwarf?
  • 2

    obsoleteTo discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.

    • 'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gate, / He riſes on the toe:
    • I proposed to the Mariners, that it would be of great benefit in Navigation to make use of [the telescope] upon the round-top of a ship, to discover and kenne Vessels afar off.

kennoun詞源 3/kɛn/

  • 1

    Range of perception.

    • I had somehow the impression that he was on the point of letting go the ladder to swim away beyond my ken.
  • 2

    Knowledge, perception, or sight.

    • So far is it from the kenne of theſe wretched projectors of ours that beſcraull their Pamflets every day with new formes of government for our Church.
    • Within our ken / The Nightingale—ah! Love, the Nightingale! / Her tender sweetness made our cheeks grow pale,
  • 3

    nauticaltransportRange of sight.

    • At once as far as Angels kenn he views / The dismal Situation waste and wilde […]

kennoun詞源 4/kɛn/

  • 1

    regionalslangA house, especially a den of thieves.

    • Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
    • Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans. Egad, you carry a bene blink aloft. Come to the ken alone—no! my blowen; did not I tell you I should bring a pater cove, to chop up the whiners for Dawson?

kennoun詞源 5/kɛn/

  • 1

    Youth or children's group.

    • Gilboa and Habonim Dror also run year-round programming, holding regional reunions (called kenim) up and down the state
    • Gavriella: At an annual movement conference. I went for the first time, and we proposed creating new kenim [branches] and it was approved, which is amazing!

kennoun詞源 6/kɛn/

  • 1

    A Japanese unit of length equal to six shakus.

kennoun詞源 7/kɛn/

  • 1

    The tsurugi (type of sword).

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