核心畫面
You can picture practising as the word that separates the label from the doing. Two people may both be called Catholic; two people may both hold a medical degree. Only one of them actually goes to Mass on Sunday, or actually sees patients this month. Practising points at that second person — the one who is currently, really carrying the thing out. It sits in front of a noun (a practising Catholic, a practising lawyer) and is not used on its own after the verb be.
可以想成 practising 是把「掛名的」和「真的在做的」分開的一個字：兩個人都可以說自己是天主教徒，也都可能拿…更多收起
可以想成 practising 是把「掛名的」和「真的在做的」分開的一個字：兩個人都可以說自己是天主教徒，也都可能拿著醫師執照，但只有其中一個真的每個星期天上教堂、這個月真的在看診。practising 指的就是後面那個人——此刻正在實際履行、實際執行的那一位。它只放在名詞前面（a practising Catholic、a practising lawyer），不會單獨擺在 be 後面當補語。原始詞典資料4 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。
practisingadj
- 1
Engaged in the practice of some activity or profession.
- 2
lawRelating to the practice of law by a legal practitioner; specifically, relating to a legal practitioner's status of being currently certified to practise law.
- You really should seek advice from a practising solicitor.
practisingnoun
- 1
The act of one who practises.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。