核心畫面

The whole body of things people have written down. The core picture is 'writing collected together as a body' — at its most , the books and poems thought worth keeping; stretched wider, it becomes simply 'all the writing on a topic' or 'a stack of printed papers about something'.

可以想成「被寫下來、累積成一整批的文字」。最受推崇的那一端,是大家認為值得珍藏的書與詩;把畫面放寬,它就只是「某個主更多收起可以想成「被寫下來、累積成一整批的文字」。最受推崇的那一端,是大家認為值得珍藏的書與詩;把畫面放寬,它就只是「某個主題下所有的書面文字」,再放寬,連一疊介紹某件事的印刷品也算。

One branch

被寫下來的文字

三個意思沿著「文字的份量」滑動:從最被珍視的文學作品,到某主題的全部書面資料,再到隨手發放的印刷品——都是「寫下來、聚成一批的文字」,只是價值與正式程度遞減。

literary works · noun · B1

Books, plays, and poems that people think are important and well written.

文學

原始詞典資料5 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。

literaturenoun/ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    The body of all written works.

  • 2

    The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.

    • He’s studying English literature at university.
    • There’s a vast body of scientific literature on the subject.
  • 3

    All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.

    • The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?ʼ The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
    • In fact, information on when each of the terms first appeared in English, and if obsolete, how long they persisted, is entirely absent from the literature.
  • 4

    Written fiction of a high standard.

    • 2008, Adam Cadre However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories.
  • 5

    obsoleteLiteracy; ability to read and write.

    • They all assumed to be mighty rakish and knowing, they were not very tidy in their private dresses, they were not at all orderly in their domestic arrangements, and the combined literature of the whole company would have produced but a poor letter on any subject.

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