- 1精通的、熟練的
If you are proficient, you can do something well. You have enough skill to handle it without struggling — not a beginner, though not always a master either. We say proficient in a language, proficient at a sport, or proficient with a tool. There is also an older, more formal noun use: a proficient, meaning a skilled person. Students will almost always meet the adjective. Though actually, this word is milder than expert, and it is not the same as fluent. Fluent is about language flowing easily; proficient is about being able to do the job. Schools and job ads like it because it sounds neat. In real life people more often say “I’m pretty good at…” or “I can handle…”
From the word’s history
From Latin proficiens, from proficere 'to advance', from pro 'forward' + facere 'to do'.
源自拉丁文 proficere「進步」，pro-「向前」加 facere「做」。
組成From Latin proficiens, the “-ing” form of proficere, “to go forward, make progress, succeed.” That verb is pro (“forward”) + facere (“to make, to do”).
同家族的字
- factboth go back to Latin facere, to make or do
- proficiencythe noun for this same skill
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
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proficientadj/pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/
- 1
Good at something; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
- He was a proficient writer with an interest in human nature.
- By constant playing and experimenting with these he learned to tie rude knots, and make sliding nooses; and with these he and the younger apes amused themselves. What Tarzan did they tried to do also, but he alone originated and became proficient.
proficientnoun/pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/
- 1
An expert.
- The colonel now addressed me, […] adding, "I hope we shall send you to your regiment up the country quite a proficient, and calculated to reflect credit on your instructors in the Zubberdust Bullumteers."
- Why not subpoena as well the clerical proficients?
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