核心畫面

You can picture 'real' as the stamp you put on something to say 'this actually exists / this is genuinely what it claims to be' — not a copy, not imagined, not pretend. From that single test of genuineness the word fans out: into 'truly is what it looks like', into 'this one really matters', into informal phrases that just turn up the volume ('real good').

可以把 real 想成你蓋在某樣東西上的一個印章,意思是「這個確實存在、它真的就是它聲稱的那樣」——不是仿冒、不是想更多收起可以把 real 想成你蓋在某樣東西上的一個印章,意思是「這個確實存在、它真的就是它聲稱的那樣」——不是仿冒、不是想像、不是假裝。從這個「是不是貨真價實」的單一測試出發,這個字向外擴散:擴散成「看起來是什麼就真的是什麼」、擴散成「這件事是真正要緊的」,也擴散成口語裡單純用來「加強語氣」的用法(real good=真的很好)。

原始詞典資料26 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。

Realname

  • 1

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesReal Madrid, a football club from Madrid.

  • 2

    A surname.

  • 3

    A municipality of the province of Quezon, Philippines.

realadj詞源 1/ɹiːl/

  • 1

    True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.

    • City hall has its place, but this pub is the real heart of the town.
    • [T]he real reason he didn't come was because he was scared of flying[.]
  • 2

    Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.

    • This is real leather.
    • An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
  • 3

    Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.

    • These are real tears!
    • Whose perfection farr excell’d Hers in all real dignitie
  • 4

    Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.

    • a description of real life
    • I waked, and found / Before mine eyes all real, as the dream / Had lively shadowed.
  • 5

    That has objective, physical existence.

    • No one has ever seen a real unicorn.
  • 6

    economicssciencesHaving been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power (contrast nominal).

    • My dad calculated my family's real consumption per month.
    • What is the real GNP of this polity?
  • 7

    economicssciencesRelating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.

  • 8

    mathematicssciencesBeing either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.

另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    lawRelating to immovable tangible property.

    • real estate; real property
    • Many are perfect in men's humours that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.
  • 10

    Absolute, complete, utter.

    • This is a real problem.
  • 11

    slangSignifying meritorious qualities or actions, especially with regard to genuineness, groundedness, and true success rather than poser imitations of success.

    • I'm keeping it real.
  • 12

    slangSignifying meritorious qualities or actions, especially with regard to genuineness, groundedness, and true success rather than poser imitations of success.

    • yo, Imma be real with u... don't ever text me again

realadv詞源 1/ɹiːl/

  • 1

    Really; very.

    • When I told him the truth, he got real mad.
    • Se looked at me real strange.

realnoun詞源 1/ɹiːl/

  • 1

    A commodity; see realty.

  • 2

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsOne of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.

  • 3

    computingengineeringmathematicsA real number.

    • There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these problems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences, named respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions here, but will use a more modern one developed by Gabriel Stolzenberg, based on "interval arithmetic."
  • 4

    obsoleteA realist.

    • Scotists, Thomists, Reals, Nominals

realnoun詞源 2/ɹeɪˈɑːl/

  • 1

    Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.

  • 2

    A coin worth one real.

realnoun詞源 3/ɹeɪˈɑːl/

  • 1

    A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942.

  • 2

    A coin worth one real.

realnoun詞源 3/ɹeɪˈɑːl/

  • 1

    A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: R$.

    • Within weeks of this bombshell, an aide to the brother of the chairman of the PT, José Genoino, was arrested boarding a flight with 200,000 reais in a suitcase and $100,000 in his underpants.
  • 2

    A coin worth one real.

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