可挑的選擇（核心）
這一族是 option 最素的樣子：在某個情況裡，你手上能挑的那一樣東西。其它意思都是從這裡長出去的。
choice · noun · B1
A choice you can make in a certain situation — one of the things you are able to pick.
選擇
核心畫面
One of the things you are free to pick in a situation — a door you could walk through instead of another. Every other meaning is just a particular kind of 'thing you can pick': a pickable item on a screen, a pickable right in a contract, a pickable subject at school.
可以想成擺在你面前、可以挑的其中一樣東西——像好幾扇門，你可以選一扇走進去。後面所有意思其實都是「可挑的一樣東西」的…更多收起
可以想成擺在你面前、可以挑的其中一樣東西——像好幾扇門，你可以選一扇走進去。後面所有意思其實都是「可挑的一樣東西」的不同版本：螢幕上可點的一項、合約裡可動用的一個權利、學校裡可挑的一門課。Six branches
保留可挑的餘地
把「可挑的一樣」往時間上延伸：重點不在現在挑哪個，而在「先別挑死，讓好幾個可挑的東西都還留著」。
keep your options open · noun · B1
In the phrase 'keep your options open': to wait before deciding, so you can still choose from more than one thing.
保留選擇空間
螢幕上可點的選項
把「可挑的一樣」搬到電腦螢幕上：選單裡那一條條等你點的項目，就是一個個 option。
menu option · noun · B1
One of the choices you can pick when you are using a computer, app, or menu on a screen.
選項
可動用的權利（商業·法律）
把「可挑的一樣」變成一紙寫好的權利：你事先談好「將來要不要做這件事由我挑」，這個「將來可挑」本身就成了一樣值錢的東西。
(financial) option · noun · B2
The right to buy or sell something at a later time, agreed in advance — often used in business.
購買權
可挑的選修課
把「可挑的一樣」放進課表：在必修以外，那些讓你自己挑來修的科目就叫 option。
elective (school subject) · noun · B2
A subject you can choose to study at school or college, as part of a course (mainly British English).
選修科目
可加購的配備
把「可挑的一樣」變成買東西時的加購項：標準款之外，那些你可以挑著加錢裝上去的額外配備，就是 options。
extra feature (car options) · noun · B2
An extra feature you can pay for when you buy something new, especially a car, on top of the standard model.
加購配備
原始詞典資料6 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。
optionnoun/ˈɒpʃən/
- 1
One of a set of choices that can be made.
- Luiz struggled with the movement of Helguson in the box, as he collected a long ball and the Spaniard barged him over, leaving referee Chris Foy little option but to point to the spot.
- Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
- 2
The freedom or right to choose.
- The marriage had not been contracted by the father, who was apparently dead, but by an agnatic guardian, so that it was liable to cancellation at the option of the girl on her attaining puberty.
- 3
businessfinancelawA contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.
- There's a book out on us and there's gonna be a movie based on the book. ABC has bought the option for a movie to be made specially for T.V.
- 4
lawThe acquiring or retention of a nationality through personal choice as a right, bypassing selective legal mechanisms for naturalization, especially in cases where a territory is transferred or passed on from one state to another.
- At that time every emigrant who was made aware of such a notification submitted his application for option to the British Consuls within the period prescribed.
- A right of option, mostly in favour of the nationality of the predecessor State, has been accorded in most cases of partial State succession, either by treaty or by domestic legislation.
optionverb/ˈɒpʃən/
- 1
To purchase an option on something.
- The new novel was optioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it.
- 2
datedcomputingengineeringmathematicsTo configure, by setting an option.
- The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.
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。