喜樂美語

From the word’s history

Inflection of profile, from French profil, from Italian profilo.

profile 加 -ing；profile 來自義大利文 profilo。

Wiktionary

Think of drawing someone's profile: you see them from the side, you catch only an outline, and from those few lines you say what kind of person that is. Profiling can be thought of the same way. Someone gathers the few traces they can see — what a crime shows, what a person looks like, what a clicks — draws an outline from them, and then acts on the outline as though it were the whole person. Everything in this word turns on that gap between the outline and the person.

profiling 可以想成在畫側臉。你只看得到側面，只抓得到一條輪廓，然後就從那幾筆線條說出「這大概是什麼樣的人」。這個字的各種用法，都像從這個畫面長出來的：有人把看得到的少數痕跡蒐集起來——案發現場透露的事、一個人的外表、一個顧客點過什麼——描出一條輪廓，接著就把那條輪廓當成整個人來對待。這個字最關鍵的地方，一直都在「輪廓」跟「本人」之間的那段距離。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

profilings

意思相近

criminal profilingracial profilingcustomer profilingpsychological profilingdiscriminatory stopsdata profilingaudience analysis

用法接近

forensic sciencediscriminationtrackingcriminologystereotypingtargetinginvestigationstop and searchmarket researchsegmentation

意思相反

equal treatmentanonymous browsingrandom checks

原始詞典資料3 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。

profilingnoun

  • 1

    The forensic science of constructing an outline of a person's individual characteristics.

    • "If you're accused of profiling or pretextual stops, you can bring your daily logbook to court and document that pulling over motorists for 'stickler' reasons is part of your customary pattern," Remsberg writes, "not a glaring exception conveniently dusted off in the defendant's case."
  • 2

    historicalgovernmentmilitarypoliticsIn the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。