喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture 'promote' as putting your hand behind something and pushing it forward and up — giving it a boost so it climbs to a higher, more visible place. Whether it's a person, a product, a team, or an idea, you are the force that moves it up in the world.

可以想成：你把手放在某個東西後面，往前、往上一推，讓它爬到更高、更被看見的位置。不管推的是一個人、一件商品、一支球隊…更多收起可以想成：你把手放在某個東西後面，往前、往上一推，讓它爬到更高、更被看見的位置。不管推的是一個人、一件商品、一支球隊還是一個想法，你都是那股「把它往上帶」的力量。

From the word’s history

From Latin promovere = pro- 'forward' + movere 'to move' — literally 'to move forward, push onward'. Every modern sense is still that forward-and-up push.

源自拉丁文 promovere，pro-（向前）+ movere（移動），字面就是「往前推、向前帶」。今天所有的用法，骨子裡都還是這股「往前、往上推」的動作。

etymonline.com/word/promote (Latin promovere, pro- 'forward' + movere 'to move')

Three branches

助長、使壯大

把「往前推」用在抽象的東西上：推的不是位置，而是成長。你在後面出力，讓一件好事、一種理念長得更快、站得更穩。

foster, encourage · verb · B1

To help something good grow, develop, or become stronger.

促進 / 推動

使升等

這裡的「往上推」最字面：把人或隊伍從一個層級抬到更高的一級。核心的「向上」在這組裡看得最清楚。

give a higher job · verb · B1

To move someone up to a better, more important job at work.

升遷 / 晉升

推向大眾

把東西往前推，一直推到大眾面前，讓更多人看見、買單、參與。推的方向不是往上，而是往外、朝著人群。

advertise, market · verb · B1

To help sell a product, film, or book by advertising it or offering it at a lower price.

推銷 / 宣傳

原始詞典資料8 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。

promoteverb/pɹəˈmoʊt/

  • 1

    To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.

    • He promoted his clerk to office manager.
  • 2

    To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.

    • They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
    • They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
  • 3

    To encourage, urge or incite.

    • so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end.
    • It appears that Le Guin is promoting a sort of self-critique on her own ideology. Interestingly, although the story does give such an impression, the problematic characteristics of the Anarresti society are far more severe than economic scarcities or isolation.
  • 4

    regionalhobbieslifestylesportsTo elevate to a higher league.

    • At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.
  • 5

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.

  • 6

    board-gameschessgamesTo exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.

    • Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
  • 7

    To move on to a subsequent stage of education.

    • At the end of Primary 6 students can promote directly to the secondary section of SIS.
  • 8

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo treat (a value) as a more capable data type or as having higher priority.

    • to promote an int to a long
    • Some C# language features will promote values from the stack to the heap.

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。