核心畫面

You can picture nobody as the empty version of 'somebody': you look around for a person and there simply isn't one — no + body (= person). From that bare 'not a single person' it also turns into a label for a person who, socially, barely counts — present in body, but treated as if nobody were there.

可以想成 nobody 就是 somebody(某個人)的相反:你環顧四周想找個人,結果一個都沒有——no(沒有)+更多收起可以想成 nobody 就是 somebody(某個人)的相反:你環顧四周想找個人,結果一個都沒有——no(沒有)+ body(這裡指「人」)。從這個「一個人也沒有」的空,再延伸出另一層:一個在別人眼裡幾乎不算數的人——他人是在的,但別人對待他就像那裡根本沒人一樣。

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無足輕重的人

把「沒有人」從「數量是零」轉成「分量是零」:這個人明明在場,可是在權力、名聲上幾乎不存在,別人當他像空氣。所以 nobody 從「沒有人」滑到「一個等於沒有的人」。

an unimportant person · noun · A2

A person who is not important and has no power or fame.

無名小卒

Also in this word

no one · pronoun · A2

Not any person; no one at all.

沒有人

原始詞典資料3 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。

nobodypron/ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/

  • 1

    Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.

    • I asked several people, but nobody knew how.
    • As nobody who is not blind can have failed to notice, I had my hair cut just yesterday.

nobodynoun/ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/

  • 1

    informalA person dismissed as unimportant.

    • “‘The nobody you once thought me!’ I repeated, and my face grew a little hot; but I would not be angry: of what importance was a school-girl’s crude use of the terms nobody and somebody?”
  • 2

    Something that has no body or an especially small one.

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