喜樂美語

核心畫面

Two beats: LEARN-ed. Picture someone who has been reading the same subject for forty years. The reading has not stayed on the shelf; it has settled inside the person, and it comes out with dates and names attached. That settled weight is what the word points at, and it can be pointed at the person, at the books they write, or at the polite title a courtroom gives a lawyer.

先聽聲音：兩個音節，LEARN-ed。可以想成一個讀了四十年同一門學問的人。那些書沒有留在書架上，而是沉在他身上，一…更多收起先聽聲音：兩個音節，LEARN-ed。可以想成一個讀了四十年同一門學問的人。那些書沒有留在書架上，而是沉在他身上，一開口就帶著年代和名字。這個字指的就是那份沉下來的重量。它可以指向這個人本身，也可以指向他寫出來的書，或指向法庭上給律師的那個客氣稱呼。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary traces the adjective to Middle English lerned, learn plus -ed, replacing older lered from Old English gelaered, the past participle of laeran, to teach. Literally, someone who has been taught.

依 Wiktionary，這個形容詞來自中古英語 lerned，也就是 learn 加 -ed，取代了更早的 lered；lered 來自古英語 ġelǣred，是 lǣran（教）的過去分詞，字面是「被教過的」。從「被教過」到「學問很深」，中間隔的正是年數。

Wiktionary (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:185748933:28073), etymology_text supplied in this packet

Two branches

人身上的學問

核心畫面本身，加上一個它幾乎只活在法庭裡的特化用法。

adjective · C1

Having a lot of deep knowledge because you have read and studied for many years. It is used about people, and it sounds formal and respectful.

博學的

寫出來的東西

同一份重量從人身上移到人做出來的東西上。

adjective · C1

In learned book, learned work, learned journal, learned article and the like: written by people with deep knowledge of a subject, for readers who already know something about it.

學術性的（書、著作）

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。

Learnedname

  • 1

    A surname.

learnedadj詞源 1/ˈlɜːnɪd/

  • 1

    Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.

    • the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]
    • My learned Brother Cresswell directed the jury to make the calculation […]
  • 2

    formallawA courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.

  • 3

    Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.

    • But our limits will not permit us to discuss the many important and curious questions respecting the science of government, to which this learned work invites attention.

learnedadj詞源 2/lɜːnd/

  • 1

    Derived from experience; acquired by learning.

    • Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。