喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture professional as the line between doing something as your paid job and doing it just for love. Cross that line — you now do it for a living, with the training, standards, and seriousness that go with earning your bread by it — and you are professional. From this one idea grow two threads: 'paid, not amateur' and 'showing the skill and standards of someone properly trained'.

可以想成一條界線，分開「為了賺錢、靠它吃飯」和「純粹因為喜歡而做」。一旦跨過這條線——你以此維生，帶著該有的訓練、水…更多收起可以想成一條界線，分開「為了賺錢、靠它吃飯」和「純粹因為喜歡而做」。一旦跨過這條線——你以此維生，帶著該有的訓練、水準和認真——你就是 professional。從這個畫面分出兩股：一是「拿錢做的、不是業餘」，二是「做得有受過訓練的人該有的水準」。

原始詞典資料11 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。

professionalnoun/pɹəˈfɛʃ.ə.nəl/

  • 1

    A person who belongs to a profession.

  • 2

    A white-collar worker, especially one with a specialized, high-earning job such as a doctor or engineer.

    • […]extra income earned this way is normally used for buying consumer goods, such as a cottage, car, boat, and so on, irrespective of whether the recipient is a professional or a tradesman.
    • They devised their own categories in which the working class formed a smaller proportion of the electorate: • I Salariat (managers, administrators, professionals, semi-professionals)
  • 3

    A person who earns their living from a specified activity.

    • My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.
  • 4

    A prostitute.

    • There was this nice lady who flirted with me at the bar, but it turned out that she was a professional.
  • 5

    A reputation known by name.

  • 6

    An expert.

    • I have learned that there is a person attached to a golf club called a professional. Find out who fills that post at the Green Meadow Club; […] invite the professional, urgently, to dine with us this evening.
  • 7

    One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is actively concerned with promoting the profession of sociology.

professionaladj/pɹəˈfɛʃ.ə.nəl/

  • 1

    Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

    • The doctor is very professional in his manner.
    • You should get professional advice about your tax liability.
  • 2

    Expert.

  • 3

    Of an occupation, paid, especially so as to provide a livelihood.

    • a professional musician, a professional footballer
    • The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.
  • 4

    Engaging in persistent behaviour that is exaggeratedly implied to be a full-time, paid occupation.

    • Don't listen to him, he's a professional bullshitter.
    • As a professional optimist, I always look on the bright side.

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。