核心畫面
You can picture someone standing on a high place and looking out: a wide stretch of land opens up ahead of them. That is the oldest and most concrete use of the word. Most modern uses keep the shape of that picture but swap land for time — you stand at today and look out over what lies ahead, and what you can make out from here is the prospect.
可以想成:一個人站在高處往前望,眼前展開一大片還沒走到的土地。這個「站在這裡、往前看出去的那一片視野」就是 pros…更多收起
可以想成:一個人站在高處往前望,眼前展開一大片還沒走到的土地。這個「站在這裡、往前看出去的那一片視野」就是 prospect 最具體的畫面(雖然這個用法現在偏書面、少見)。其他常見的用法幾乎都保留了同一個形狀,只是把「往前的土地」換成「往前的時間」:你站在今天,往前望,望得到的那一片就是前景——可能發生的事、快要面對的事、未來的發展。動詞那一邊則是把人放進那片土地裡,實際走進去找東西。原始詞典資料31 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。
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A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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An inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
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A local government area in Adelaide, which includes the suburb; in full, the City of Prospect.
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A suburb of Launceston, northern Tasmania, Australia.
prospectnoun詞源 1/ˈpɹɒspɛkt/
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The region which the eye overlooks at one time; a view; a scene; an outlook.
- As when a Scout[…]Obtains the brow of ſome high-climbing Hill, / Which to his eye diſcovers unaware / The goodly proſpect of ſome forein land / Firſt-ſeen, or ſome renownd Metropolis / With gliſtering Spires and Pinnacles adornd, / Which now the Riſing Sun guilds with his beams.
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A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
- I went to Putney, and other places on the Thames, to take prospects in crayon, to carry into France, where I thought to have them engraved.
- She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fairly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situation, low and sheltered—its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight ...
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A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
- Him God beholding from his proſpect high, / Wherein paſt, preſent, future he beholds, / Thus to his onely Son forſeeing ſpake.
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A relative position of the front of a building or other structure; a face; a relative aspect.
- Their prospect was toward the south.
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The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
- a very ill prospect of a future state
- Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life?
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The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
- The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,— no prospect of an end.
- We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
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A hope; a hopeful.
- The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.
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hobbieslifestylesportsAny player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
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A potential client or customer.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicThe façade of an organ.
prospectverb詞源 1/pɹəˈspɛkt/
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To search, as for gold.
- Among the ancient sites in the Taklamakan Desert which are frequented by Khotan "treasure seekers," and which the prospecting parties sent out by me had visited, none seemed to offer better opportunities for systematic excavations than the one known to them as Dandan-Uilik.
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businessgeographygeologyTo determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
prospectverb詞源 2/pɹəˈspɛkt/
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obsoleteTo have or afford a view; to face or look out.
- This poynte ſemethe as though it woolde inuade the monte Atlas in Aphrica. Foꝛ it pꝛoſpectethe [translating spectat] towarde that parte of Aphꝛike, whiche the poꝛtugales caule Caput Bonæ Sperantiæ.
- All men, whoſe experience by trauaile is a wytnes of the ſingularities of Italye, and ſpaine, are of opinion I am ſewer, that naples, is one of yͤ moſt riche pleaſante and Populus cities in evrope, bothe foꝛ the beautie and fartilitie of the countreye rounde aboute, the magnifical plat and ſcituacion of the towne, pꝛoſpectinge with open caſementes, vppon the heyghte of the highe ſea Tyrenũ, […]
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obsoleteTo look or face towards; to view.
- Beynge therfoꝛe ioyfull and gladde of the frendeſhyppe of owre men, he tooke the capitaine by the hand and bꝛought him with certeine of his familiars to the higheſt towre of his palaice, from whenſe they myght proſpecte [translating dispectare] the mayne ſea.
- […] [Andreas] Veſalius no leſſe taketh part agaynſt him, openyng the window of light, on the clearer ſide, pꝛoſpecting the Sunne, as manifeſtly appeareth by that is gone befoꝛe.
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。