核心畫面
Mind can be pictured as a hidden room just behind your forehead — the inner place where you think, feel, remember, and imagine. Almost everything 'mind' does grows from this one room: thoughts walk in and out of it, worries sit on it, decisions are settled in it, attention is a beam shone from it. As a verb it turns active: something touches that room (you 'mind' it / 'don't mind' it), or you send the room's attention outward to watch over a child, a shop, your own manners.
mind 可以想成額頭後面一間看不見的房間——你思考、感覺、記憶、想像都在裡面發生。幾乎所有用法都從這一間房間長出來…更多收起
mind 可以想成額頭後面一間看不見的房間——你思考、感覺、記憶、想像都在裡面發生。幾乎所有用法都從這一間房間長出來：念頭會走進走出、煩惱會壓在上面、決定在裡面拍板、注意力是從它射出的一束光。當它變成動詞，就活了起來：一件事「碰」到這房間（你介意它／不介意它），或你把房間的注意力對外送出去，看顧一個小孩、一間店、自己的言行。原始詞典資料24 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。
mindnoun/maɪnd/
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The capability for rational thought.
- Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.
- And ſure, although it was invented to eaſe his mynde of griefe, there be a number of caveats therein to forewarne other young gentlemen to foreſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes; […]
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The ability to be aware of things.
- There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.
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The ability to remember things.
- My mind just went blank.
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The ability to focus the thoughts.
- I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.
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Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- He was one of history’s greatest minds.
- I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, […]
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Thinking characteristic of particular group.
- Who knows what really goes through the criminal mind?
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Judgment, opinion, or view.
- He changed his mind after hearing the speech.
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Desire, inclination, or intention.
- She had a mind to go to Paris.
- I have half a mind to do it myself.
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A healthy mental state.
- I, ______ being of sound mind and body, do hereby[…]
- You are losing your mind.
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesThe non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The nature of the mind is a major topic in philosophy.
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
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Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- a month's [or monthly] mind; a year's mind
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Attention, consideration or thought.
- They are the “tars” who give mind to the spreading sail, and their bold courage is the pabulum which will preserve our sea-girt isle in its vernal green to furthest posterity.
- Then he, having mind of Beelzebub, the god of flies, fled without a halt homewards; but, falling in the coo's loan, broke two ribs and a collar bone, the whilk misfortune was much blessed to his soul.
mindverb/maɪnd/
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To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- Mind to-morrow's early meeting!
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regionalTo remember.
- The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.
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obsoletedialectalTo remind; put one's mind on.
- Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day: / And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, / For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.
- Let me be punished, that have minded you Of what you should forget.
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To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- Mind the new detour signs. If you don't mind, you'll end up running into bears in the forest.
- Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me / For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat; / Perchance he will not mind me.
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To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
- It's the worst thing that can ever happen to you in all your life, and you've got to mind it—you've got to mind it. They'll come saying, 'Bear up—trust to time.' No, no; they're wrong. Mind it.
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To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- Mind you don't knock that glass over.
- Scott: […] He can see by you stropping off you don’t want to be around him, so he’s not coming after you – but at the same time, obviously yeah he is concerned about your fuckin’ happiness and well-being. So Lee says to me, Scotty, pop along and mind she’s alright.
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To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- You should mind your own business.
- My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.
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To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- Would you mind my bag for me?
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To be careful about.
- Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.
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To purpose, intend, plan.
- I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
- […]and if ever I refused to do his bidding or loitered or took my leisure he beat me with his feet more grievously than if I had been beaten with whips. He ceased not to signal with his hand wherever he was minded to go; so I carried him about the island, like a captive slave, and he bepissed and conskited my shoulders and back, dismounting not night nor day; and whenas he wished to sleep he wound his legs about his neck and leaned back and slept awhile, then arose and beat me; whereupon I sprang up in haste, unable to gainsay him because of the pain he inflicted on me.
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Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- I'm not very healthy. I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.
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To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
- Do you mind if I smoke?
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。