核心畫面
Picture a plain notebook, identical to a hundred others, and then a name printed on the cover — now it is one person's. Personalize is that move from general to particular: attaching something to a specific person. Do it to an object and you get a gift with a name on it; do it to a service and you get something built around one user; do it to an argument and you have made it about the people rather than the idea.
可以想成：一本跟其他一百本一模一樣的筆記本，封面印上一個名字之後，它就成了某個人的。personalize 講的就是…更多收起
可以想成：一本跟其他一百本一模一樣的筆記本，封面印上一個名字之後，它就成了某個人的。personalize 講的就是這個「從一般變成特定」的動作：把東西掛到某一個人身上。用在物品上，是刻名字的禮物；用在服務上，是為單一使用者量身打造；而用在爭論上，就變成在講人，而不是在講事情。原始詞典資料3 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。
personalizeverb/ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/
- 1
To adapt something to the needs or tastes of an individual.
- These "Eternal Ones of the Dream" are not to be confused with the personally modified symbolic figures that appear in nightmare and madness to the still tormented individual. Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche.
- “Over the past month, the Department has held three separate meetings with the ACLU to receive feedback and engage the organization in the solutions,” the department said in a statement. “As a result of the meetings, the Department agrees that publishing FIO statistics going forward is necessary, and the Department is working toward personalizing interactions between officers and citizens.”
- 2
To represent something abstract as a person; to embody.
- 3
To imbue something with one's personality.
- Gloria Hull, best known as a Black Feminist literary critic, expands and personalizes her examination of creative thought in her first collection of poetry, Healing Heart.
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。