眼睛中央的黑圓
這一支不是從「學生」引申來的,而是同一個拉丁指小詞的另一條路:那個小得像娃娃的倒影。
eye's pupil · noun · A2
The round black hole in the middle of your eye that becomes bigger or smaller depending on how much light there is.
瞳孔
Two meanings that look — a child in a classroom, and the black circle in an eye — meet in one small idea: littleness. Latin used a diminutive, 'little one', for a child in someone's care, and the same word for the doll-sized reflection of yourself that you can see in another person's eye. Knowing that, the two senses stop feeling like an accident.
Both senses go back to Latin pupillus/pupilla 'orphan child, ward, minor', a diminutive. The eye sense comes from pupilla 'little girl-doll', named for the tiny image of yourself reflected in another person's eye — Greek did the same thing with kore 'girl', used for both a doll and the pupil of the eye.
兩個意思都回到拉丁文 pupillus/pupilla(受監護的孩子、未成年者),本身是個表示「小」的指小詞。眼睛那一層來自 pupilla「小女娃娃」——因為你在別人眼睛裡會看到一個娃娃般大小的自己。希臘文的做法一模一樣:kore(女孩)同時用來指洋娃娃和瞳孔。所以這兩個意思不是同形異義,而是同一個「小小的那個」分了兩條路。
Etymonline, https://www.etymonline.com/word/pupil
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眼睛中央的黑圓
這一支不是從「學生」引申來的,而是同一個拉丁指小詞的另一條路:那個小得像娃娃的倒影。
eye's pupil · noun · A2
The round black hole in the middle of your eye that becomes bigger or smaller depending on how much light there is.
瞳孔
schoolchild · noun · A2
A child or young person who is being taught in a particular school or by a particular teacher.
學生(尤指中小學生)
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。
pupilnoun詞源 1/ˈpjuːpəl/
A learner at a school under the supervision of a teacher.
One who studies under supervision of a renowned expert in their field.
obsoletelawAn orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state.
pupilnoun詞源 2/ˈpjuːpəl/
anatomymedicinesciencesThe hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.
biologynatural-scienceszoologyThe central dark part of an ocellated spot.
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。