核心畫面

One way to hold this word: something belongs to this one case and to nothing else. Nobody else has it, nobody else does it, nobody else reaches this far. From that single idea, the rest follows. What only one person does looks odd to everyone watching. What only one case reaches counts as an extreme. And what only one group owns is simply their own thing.

可以想成一個畫面:這樣東西只屬於這一個,別的都沒有。只有這一群人這麼做。只有這一次到了這個地步。別處找不到第二個。之更多收起可以想成一個畫面:這樣東西只屬於這一個,別的都沒有。只有這一群人這麼做。只有這一次到了這個地步。別處找不到第二個。之後的幾個意思,都是從這一句長出來的。只有他這樣做,看在旁人眼裡就成了「怪」。只有這一題難到這個程度,就成了「格外」。只有那一群人才有,就成了「很他們式的」。所以這個字看起來意思很跳,其實一直站在同一個位置上:它在指出「唯獨這一個」。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives only peculiar + -ly, so the adverb inherits whatever picture peculiar already carries: belonging to one and not to others.

packet 裡的詞源只給了一件事:peculiarly 是 peculiar 加上字尾 -ly。所以它沒有自己另外的來歷,它直接繼承 peculiar 的畫面——某樣東西專屬於某個人或某一群。這也解釋了為什麼「專屬」「奇怪」「格外」三個意思會擠在同一個字裡:它們都是同一個「唯獨這一個」在不同場合的樣子。(更早的拉丁來源不在本 packet 的證據裡,所以不在這裡下判斷。)

Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1025612503:16932): 'From peculiar + -ly.'

Three branches

只屬於這一群:專屬

這一支離核心畫面最近:它直接說出「這是誰的東西」。

r · C1

Used in front of a word for a group, a place, or a kind of person to say that something belongs to that group and to almost nobody else.

只屬於…的、很…式的

只有它這樣:看起來怪

把「唯獨這一個」換個角度看:一件事若只有它這樣,旁人自然覺得對不上常理,於是專屬就轉成了奇怪。

r · B2

In a way that seems strange, and that you cannot easily explain. It describes how someone acts, or how a thing looks, sounds, or tastes.

奇怪地

只有它到這個地步:格外

同一個畫面轉到程度上:別的都沒到,只有這一個到了,那就是超出平常的意思。

r · C1

To a much greater degree than usual. It goes in front of an adjective or adverb, or in front of a verb, to say that this one case stands out from all the others.

特別地、格外