From the word’s history

From Middle English, via Middle French opinion, from Latin opīniō, from opīnor 'to opine'.

經中古法文來自拉丁文 opīniō,源自 opīnor「認為」。

Wiktionary

What goes on in your head when you weigh something up and decide what you think — a judgment you hold, not a fact everyone can check.

可以想成 opinion 是你腦中「我覺得怎樣」的那個判斷:你把一件事掂量一番,得出一個自己相信、但別人不一定同意的看法。它的核心畫面比較像一個人站在心裡的天平前,秤完之後說「我認為是這樣」——重點在於這是「你的判斷」,不是大家都能驗證的事實。所有其他用法都從這個「心中的判斷」長出來。

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

opinionnoun/əˈpɪn.jən/

  • 1

    A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.

    • I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.
    • In my opinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
  • 2

    The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

    • I haue bought / Golden Opinions from all ſorts of people, […]
    • Friendship […] gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
  • 3

    obsoleteFavorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

    • Thou haſt redeemed thy loſt opinion, […]
    • This gain’d Agricola much opinion; who […] had made ſuch early progreſs into laborious […] enterpriſes.
  • 4

    obsoleteObstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

    • […] your reaſons at Dinner haue been ſharpe & ſententious: pleaſant without ſcurillitie, wittie without affection, audatious without impudencie, learned without opinion, and ſtrange without hereſie: […]
  • 5

    The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.

  • 6

    lawA judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible.

opinionverb/əˈpɪn.jən/

  • 1

    archaicTo have or express as an opinion.

    • Philoſophers that opinioned the vvorlds deſtruction by fire, did never dreame of annihilation, vvhich is beyond the povver of ſublunary cauſes; for the laſt and proper action of that element [fire] is but vitrification, or a reduction of a body into Glaſſe, and therefore ſome of our Chymicks factiouſly affirme; yea, and urge Scripture for it, that at the laſt fire all ſhall be cryſtallized and reverberated into Glaſſe, vvhich is the utmoſt action of that element.
    • But if (as some opinion) King Ahasuerus were Artaxerxes Mnemon[…], our magnified Cyrus was his second Brother […]

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