- 1幻影、幻象
A phantasm is something that seems to be there, but lives only in the mind — a shape, a fear, a hope with no body in the real world. It can be a ghost-like picture, or just an idea you have built so strongly that it feels like a thing you could touch. This is a book word. In ordinary talk people say phantom, ghost, or dream instead. Writers like phantasm when they want the mind’s picture, not a spooky story: a love that was never returned can be a phantasm; so can a “perfect job” that exists only in someone’s head. It is a noun, rather formal, and a little old. You will meet it in poems and careful essays far more than in a shop or a chat.
組成A learned variant of phantom. From Middle English fantosme, from Old French fantosme / fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma), “an appearance; a ghost.” Phantom is its everyday twin (a doublet).
同家族的字
- phantomthe ordinary twin of this word; same Greek source
- phantasmagoriabuilt from the same Greek “appearance / ghost” piece
原始詞典資料2 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。
phantasmnoun/ˈfæntæzəm/
- 1
Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
- But night comes in with a more genial spirit: we have done our worst and our bitterest; and we need a small space to indulge any little bit of cordiality that may be left in us. A thousand gay phantasms float in on the sunny south, which has left the far-off vineyards of its birth.
- He declares that there seems to be no justification for regarding the phantasms of dreams as pure hallucinations; most dream-images are probably in fact illusions, since they arise from faint sense-impressions, which never cease during sleep.
- 2
human-sciencesphilosophysciencesAn impression as received by the senses, especially an image, often prior to any interpretation by the intellect.
- When abstracted from the phantasm by the intellectus agens the species effects a modification in the intellectus possibilis which modification is called the species intelligibilis impressa. Actualized by the species impressa the intellectus […]
- Again, in a sense, the act of understanding as an insight into phantasm is knowledge of form: but the form so known does not correspond to the philosophic concept of form; “insight is to phantasm as form is to matter; […]”
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。