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You can picture one single human being standing in front of you — one body, one face, with their own thoughts and feelings, counted as one whole. That single counted individual is the picture the whole word grows from: not 'people' in general, but this one here.

可以想成站在你面前的一個活生生的人:一個身體、一張臉,有自己的想法和感受,被當成「一個整體」來數。整個字的畫面,就是…更多收起可以想成站在你面前的一個活生生的人:一個身體、一張臉,有自己的想法和感受,被當成「一個整體」來數。整個字的畫面,就是「一個被單獨數出來的個體」——不是泛指的「人們」,而是「這一個人」。後面幾個意思,大多是把這個「一個完整的人」放進不同的場合:親自到場(整個人在那裡)、隨身帶著(貼著這個身體)、以某人的身份出現(由這一個人來代表)。

原始詞典資料16 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。

Personname

  • 1

    A surname.

personnoun/ˈpɜː.sən/

  • 1

    An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.

    • 1784, William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of the firſt diſtinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ſeveral new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and diſtinguiſh it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
    • “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”
  • 2

    An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.

    • […]his firſt appearance vpon the Stage, in his new perſon of a Sycophant or Iugler[…]
    • How different […]is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate, and […]that of a friend!
  • 3

    ChristianityAn individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.

    • three persons and one God
  • 4

    An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.

  • 5

    An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.

    • Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.
  • 6

    An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.

  • 7

    An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.

    • I was able to speak to a technical support person and get the problem solved.
  • 8

    The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.

    • […]when the young Ladies laughed at her for it, ſhe replied that it was not his perſon that ſhe did embrace and reverence, but the divine beauty of his Soule.
    • The Captain, inclining his military person, sat sideways to be closer and kinder[…].
另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    lawAny individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.

    • At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.
  • 10

    lawThe human genitalia; specifically, the penis.

    • [E]very Person wilfully, openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his Person in any Street, Road, or public Highway, or in the View thereof, or in any Place of public Resort, with Intent to insult any Female ... and being subsequently convicted of the Offence for which he or she shall have been so apprehended, shall be deemed a Rogue and Vagabond, within the true Intent and Meaning of this Act ...
  • 11

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom they are speaking. See grammatical person.

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    biologynatural-sciencesA shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.

    • True corms, composed of united personae […] usually arise by gemmation, […] yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons.
  • 13

    A soulmate; someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally compatible and connected.

    • 'I still miss her. Every day,' she said. 'She was my person. […] [And when she died,] I'd lost my person. I was eight years old and I'd lost my person. Willow and I even had our own language, as lots of twins do, but I stopped talking after she died.'
    • Standing in the rain, she looked at me and said, "I have lost my person. Cal was my person. What am I going to do? I lost my person." The words didn't make sense to me. […] She lost her person? What does that even mean? Cal was more than a person. He was this great man and legendary basketball coach. I get if you have lost your dog or cat [...] But I lost my person? […] I finally understood [...] Because I realized that you are my person. It means that in a world of eight billion people, if I lost you, there would still be seven billion, nine-hundred and ninety-nine million, nine-hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine-hundred and ninety-nine people [...] But none of those people matter. None of them are you.

personverb/ˈpɜː.sən/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

    • Or let us perſon him like ſome wretched itinerary Judge, […]
  • 2

    To man, to supply with staff or crew.

    • “Okay. Soon as Natalie heard, and while she was flailing around trying to turn up a Valium, she decided she had better call Scott Harrison and ask his opinion on what sort of advice, re legal moves, she ought to call back to Iréné, or Rama, or Wilkerson, or whoever’s personning the fort back there.” / “Whoever’s whatening the fort?” / “Please.[…]”
    • Thank you to the many who helped the festival succeed (and apologies to anyone omitted): […] Kevin and Mary Jannsen, for tireless work including the initial survey, soliciting raffle donations, selling tickets, personning the raffle booth during the festival, etc.

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。