喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a string tied from a rule to a person: once the contract is signed or the favour is done, that string is there, and it pulls. The word is about the tie that leaves someone no free choice — sometimes tied by law from outside, sometimes tied by a feeling from inside.

可以想成：有一條線把規定和人綁在一起。合約一簽、或是別人幫了你一個大忙，那條線就在了，而且會拉著你。obligate…更多收起可以想成：有一條線把規定和人綁在一起。合約一簽、或是別人幫了你一個大忙，那條線就在了，而且會拉著你。obligate 講的就是這條讓人沒得選的線：有時候是法律從外面綁上去的，有時候是心裡自己纏上去的。要注意這個字在美式英文比較常見，英式多半用 oblige。

原始詞典資料7 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。

obligateverb詞源 1/ˈɒb.lɪˌɡeɪt/

  • 1

    To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.

    • That progress has taken over ten years and £20 million to bring to fruition. But, as Mands explains, the journey has been one that HSG has been almost obligated to undertake. "First and foremost, this is an environmental project," she says.
  • 2

    To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.

  • 3

    To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.

obligateadj詞源 2/ˈɒb.lɪ.ɡɪt/

  • 1

    biologynatural-sciencesRequiring a (specified) way of life, habitat, etc.

    • [A]nalysis of the chemical composition of their bones reveals that they were obligate carnivores.
  • 2

    Indispensable; essential; necessary; obligatory; mandatory; unavoidably invoked.

    • In addition to being the obligate food source for monarch caterpillars, milkweeds also provide abundant nectar for the adult butterflies.
    • In some languages such signaling is optional, whereas in others it is obligate.
  • 3

    obsoleteBound by oath, law or duty.

    • The Law sayith, Mack a mendis for thy synne. The Father of Heaven is wraith wyth thee. Quhair is thy rychteousnes, goodnes, and satisfactioun ? Thou art bound and obligat unto me, [to] the devill, and [to] hell.

obligatenoun詞源 2

  • 1

    biologynatural-sciencesAn obligate organism.

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。