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Prudence is a sensible, careful way of thinking that helps you step around a risk you do not need. It is looking ahead: Will this cost too much? Could this hurt someone? Should I wait?
Prudence is a sensible, careful way of thinking謹慎是一種明智、小心的思考方式， that helps you step around a risk you do not need能幫你避開不必要的風險。It is looking ahead它是一種往前看： Will this cost too much這樣會不會花太多錢？Could this hurt someone這樣會不會傷到誰？Should I wait我該不該等一等？
You meet the word in advice, in money talk, in news, and in school writing more than in chat among friends — it sounds a little formal, even a little old, but it is still a real virtue, not a joke. A parent showing prudence saves a bit each month; a driver showing prudence slows down in the rain.
You meet the word in advice, in money talk, in news, and in school writing more than in chat among friends你在勸告、談錢、新聞和學校作文裡遇到這個字，比在朋友聊天時更常見—— it sounds a little formal, even a little old聽起來有點正式，甚至有點老派， but it is still a real virtue, not a joke但它仍然是一種真正的美德，不是開玩笑的。A parent showing prudence saves a bit each month展現謹慎的父母每個月會存一點錢； a driver showing prudence slows down in the rain展現謹慎的駕駛在下雨天會放慢速度。
It is not the same as being shy, and it is not the same as being a . Prudence is about judgment and danger; is about being shocked by sex. They sit next to each other on the page and nowhere else in the family.
It is not the same as being shy它跟害羞不一樣， and it is not the same as being a prude也跟假正經(prude)不一樣。Prudence is about judgment and dangerPrudence 講的是判斷和危險； prude is about being shocked by sexprude 講的是對性感到震驚。They sit next to each other on the page它們在字典頁面上緊鄰彼此， and nowhere else in the family但在這個字族裡其他地方就沒有這種關係了。
組成From Latin prūdentia (“common sense, foresight, wisdom”), from prūdēns + -ia. Prūdēns is a shortened form of prōvidēns (“looking ahead, caring for”).
同家族的字
- prudentsame Latin prūdēns / prūdentia
- prudentialbuilt from the same Latin prudentia
- providentdoublet: prūdēns is a shortened prōvidēns, the source of provident
- providencesame Latin “looking ahead” root
原始詞典資料5 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。
Prudencename
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A female given name from English, one of the Puritan virtue names.
prudencenoun/ˈpɹuːd(ə)n(t)s/
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The quality or state of being prudent: circumspection and good judgment in knowing how best to act; (countable, archaic) an instance of this.
- [T]here are ſo many concurrencies vvhich have their attending cheques; vvhich poſſible are to be, but actually, vvere not improved in remedy that the prevalence of the Fire againſt, and in deſpight of thoſe vvonted prudences, and uſual reſiſtances, and the Latitude of effects, ſeconding ſuch a neglect of impending means, vvhere ſo vvell underſtood, and ſo dextrouſly at other times practiſed; […]
- Concerning intellectual Habits or the genuine effects of theſe acts in the underſtanding Faculty, and they are divers and diverſly expreſſed by thoſe that have treated thereof. […] Prudence, vvhich is principally in reference to actions to be done, the due means, order, ſeaſon, method of doing or not doing.
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Synonym of frugality (“the quality of avoiding unnecessary expenditure; economy, parsimony, thrift, thriftiness”).
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obsoleteSynonym of providence (“preparation for the future; foresight”).
- For 'tis my ſetled Opinion, that Divine Prudence is often, at leaſt, converſant in a peculiar manner about the Actions of Men, and the things that happen to Them, or have a neceſſary Connexion vvith the One, or the Other, or Both.
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obsoleteSynonym of wisdom (“an element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise; wise advice”).
- Children here ye the fathers diſcipline, and attend that you may knovve prudence.
- [H]e [Pythagoras] vvent from Ægypt to the Perſians, (not to Perſia, as ſome conceive) and reſigned himſelf to the moſt exact prudence of the Magi, to be formed.
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。