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Phenom is a short, informal American way to say phenomenon when you mean a person — or sometimes a thing — that is good or successful, not when you mean “something that happens in nature.” You hear it in sport and entertainment: a young player already performing like a star is “a phenom.” It is casual, a bit , and mostly American. Teachers and serious papers still write phenomenon. Though actually it is only a form of that longer word; it is not a separate idea.
奇才；天才型新人（口語，多指年輕好手）
組成A clipping of phenomenon, in American English from about the 1890s. Phenomenon goes back to Greek phainómenon, “that which appears,” from phaínō, “I show / I appear.”
同家族的字
- phenomenonphenom is a short, informal form of phenomenon
- phenomenalbuilt from the same phenomenon stem
- phenomenallythe adverb from the same stem
- phenomenologyphilosophy word built on the same stem
原始詞典資料2 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。
phenomnoun/ˈfɛ.nəm/
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Someone or something that is phenomenal, especially a promising young player in sports like baseball, American football, basketball, tennis, and golf.
- Managed and shortstopped by George Wright and full of league stalwarts—Joe Start, Paul Hines, and Jim O'rourke—they also had 1-year-old phenom Monte Ward as primary moundsman (teams now generally used multiple pitchers).
- It is the first all-teen final since 1999 – when neither was born – which saw Serena Williams, 17, beat an 18-year-old Martina Hingis. Teen phenoms were relatively commonplace back then, especially on the women’s side, occasionally on the men’s.
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One who is hip and fashionable.
- Jones is a pop-culture phenom whose bold antics, outlandish personality, and dazzling looks defied all norms.
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。