核心畫面

Picture the list of conditions a person has to meet before a door opens: the skills, the experience, the piece of paper that proves it. Turn the same idea of adding a condition onto a sentence instead of a person, and you get the last sense — the words you add to make a claim true only within limits.

可以想成:一扇門打開之前要先對照的那張條件清單——具備的技能、經歷,還有證明這些的那張紙。把「加上條件」這個動作從人更多收起可以想成:一扇門打開之前要先對照的那張條件清單——具備的技能、經歷,還有證明這些的那張紙。把「加上條件」這個動作從人身上換到一句話上,就得到最後一個意思:補上幾個字,讓原本的說法只在某些情況下成立。

From the picture

話裡加的但書

把「加上條件」用在說出口的話上:補一句限制,讓原本太滿的說法縮到剛好。

reservation (caveat) · noun · B2

Something you add to what you have said, to make it less complete or to make it true only in certain cases.

但書;保留

Also in this word

suitable quality · noun · B1

A skill, a personal quality, or a kind of experience that makes you the right person for a job or a position.

條件;資格

certificate · noun · B1

Something you get when you pass an exam or finish a course, which shows that you have reached a certain level of skill or knowledge in a subject.

資格證明;學歷

qualifying to advance · noun · B1

The act of reaching the level you need — by passing a test or by beating another team — so that you are allowed to go on to the next stage.

取得資格;晉級

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。

qualificationnoun/ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

  • 1

    The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc.

    • Qualification for this organization is extraordinarily difficult.
  • 2

    An ability or attribute that aids someone's chances of qualifying for something; specifically, completed professional training.

    • What are your qualifications for this job?
  • 3

    A certificate, diploma, or degree awarded after successful completion of a course, training, or exam.

  • 4

    A clause or condition which qualifies something; a modification, a limitation.

    • I accept your offer, but with the following qualification.
    • Before a vowel (as in rib, brake) r is usually pronounced as a fricative consonant by all groups of speakers. But the qualification 'usually' is necessary, for the Negroes tend to weaken r after a consonant; and they omit it, as do illiterate white speakers, in throat, throw, through.
  • 5

    obsoleteA quality or attribute.

    • To shew, that these Qualfications, which we all pretend to be asham'd of, are the great support of a flourishing Society has been the subject of the foregoing Poem.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。