核心畫面

Picture a at a door: you are let through only if you tick every box. The word is about matching a set of conditions — which is why it covers being eligible, passing exams, counting as something, and getting through to the next round. The grammar and hedging uses turn the same idea around: adding a condition to a statement so it fits more exactly.

可以想成:門口有一張條件清單,每一項都打勾才放你進去。這個字講的一直是「符不符合那張清單」——所以它能講有資格、考取更多收起可以想成:門口有一張條件清單,每一項都打勾才放你進去。這個字講的一直是「符不符合那張清單」——所以它能講有資格、考取執照、算得上某一類、比賽晉級。至於文法和說話上的用法,是把同一件事反過來做:在一句話上加條件,讓它說得更精準,不要太滿。

From the picture

算得上這一類

清單這次不是給人的,而是給一個定義的:東西具備了那些條件,就能被歸進那一類。

count as · verb · B2

To have all the things that are needed to be counted as a particular kind of thing.

算得上/稱得上

替說法加上限定

換個方向做同一件事:不是去符合條件,而是主動加上條件——在一句話後面補一句,讓它的範圍縮到剛剛好。

soften a statement · verb · B2

To add words to something you said before, so its meaning is not too strong or too general.

補充說明/修正(說法)

Also in this word

meet requirements · verb · B2

To meet the conditions that give you the right to have or do something, or to give someone that right.

符合資格

become qualified · verb · B2

To pass the exams or finish the study you need in order to do a job.

取得資格/考取

equip with skills · verb · B2

If something qualifies you to do something, it gives you the skills or knowledge you need to do it.

使有資格/使能勝任

qualify for a competition · verb · B2

To reach the level you need to enter or stay in a competition.

晉級/取得參賽資格

原始詞典資料11 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。

qualifyverb/ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/

  • 1

    To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.

  • 2

    To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.

    • Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.
    • But if it is done in conjunction with repointing of the building, the work would probably qualify as a major capital improvement.
  • 3

    To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.

    • They usually spoke of this connection as a longing for the purer life of Attic civilization, but that was a delusion which even they recognized — the position of slaves and women hardly qualified Classical antiquity as an ideal of freedom.
  • 4

    To become competent or eligible for some position or task.

    • He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.
  • 5

    To certify or license someone for something.

  • 6

    To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.

    • O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify
  • 7

    archaicTo mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.

    • he balmes and herbes thereto applyde, / And euermore with mighty spels them charmd, / That in short space he has them qualifyde, / And him restor'd to health, that would haue algates dyde.
  • 8

    To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.

    • It hath no larynx […] to qualify the sound.
  • 10

    artshobbiesjugglingTo throw and catch each object at least twice.

    • to qualify seven balls you need at least fourteen catches

qualifynoun/ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/

  • 1

    artshobbiesjugglingAn instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.

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