由「提一下」長出的慣用語
幾個固定說法都踩在『只是稍微提一下』上面打轉：有的拿來客氣推掉道謝，有的拿來再添一筆讓論點更強，有的則是把名字放上正式名單。
not to mention · verb · B1
Used in 'not to mention' to add another thing that makes a point even stronger.
更別說
核心畫面
You can picture mention as touching on something just in passing: you say its name or bring it up for a moment, lightly, without stopping to explain. A quick brush against a topic — enough that it's been said, not enough to be a full account. The noun is simply that brush turned into a thing; the are all small twists on 'I only touched on it.'
可以把 mention 想成順口碰一下某件事：把它的名字說出來、或提它一下，輕輕的，不停下來細講。核心畫面比較像『擦…更多收起
可以把 mention 想成順口碰一下某件事：把它的名字說出來、或提它一下，輕輕的，不停下來細講。核心畫面比較像『擦過一個話題』——說到了就算數，但不到把它講清楚的程度。名詞就是把這個『擦一下』變成一樣東西；那些慣用語則都是在『我只是稍微提了一下』上面打的小轉折。From the picture
Also in this word
mention (talk briefly about) · verb · B1
To talk or write about something quickly, without giving many details.
提到
a mention (short reference) · noun · B1
A short act of talking or writing about something or someone.
提及
原始詞典資料4 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。
mentionnoun/ˈmɛnʃən/
- 1
A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.
- I will make mention of thy righteousness.
- And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention / Of me more must be heard of.
- 2
A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.
- "I would like Twitter to put some kind of filters in place," suggests Prakash. "At present I can't see troll tweets if I block the user, but others who go into my 'mentions' can do so, and read the graphic abuse, which is disturbing."
- In response to the flood of replies, Chance returned to Twitter several hours later — presumably, after his mentions calmed down — to request that users format their resumes as "creative decks, pitches or proposals" […].
mentionverb/ˈmɛnʃən/
- 1
To make mention of; to speak of; to refer to; to name; to specify
- He happened to mention your name to me.
- fine mantles of Irish frieze are mentioned in a list of goods exported from England to Pope Urban VI
- 2
human-scienceslinguisticsphilosophyTo utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.
- I can illustrate this by mentioning the word lead. Now you have no way of knowing for sure which meaning I have in mind until I give it some context by using it in a sentence.
- If the verbatimness view derives from the popular notion that DST repeats 'the actual words spoken', a second line of thought takes its cue from Quine's (1940: 23–26, 1960: 146–156) philosophical distinction between words which are “used” vs. words which are merely “mentioned”.
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。