核心畫面

One way to hold it: someone working a figure out — counting on their fingers, then in their head, until 'working it out' stops being about numbers at all.

一個人在心裡「算」:先是真的在數——手指頭一根根點,或是拿筆把數字加起來;後來這個「算」慢慢離開了數字,變成把手上的更多收起一個人在心裡「算」:先是真的在數——手指頭一根根點,或是拿筆把數字加起來;後來這個「算」慢慢離開了數字,變成把手上的線索擺一擺、掂一掂,然後得出一個結論。從算錢、算天數,到算「這件事大概會怎樣」,動作其實是同一個:你不是憑空知道,你是把已知的東西過一遍才得出答案。這個字最有意思的地方,就是它保留了那條從精算滑到猜測的路。

Two branches

真的在算數字

這是核心畫面最原本的樣子:手上有數字,動筆算出一個確切的答案。

calculate exactly · verb · B2

to work out an exact number or amount by counting or by using figures. This use is formal, and often says what the counting starts from or what unit it uses.

計算

算出一個看法

「算」的對象從數字換成情況:一樣是把已知的東西過一遍才給答案,只是這回得出的是判斷,不是數目。

think; believe · verb · B2

to think or believe that something is true or will happen, when you are not completely sure. It is used most in everyday speaking, above all in British and Australian English.

認為;覺得

原始詞典資料9 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。

reckonverb詞源 1/ˈɹɛkən/

  • 1

    To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

    • then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain
    • I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
  • 2

    To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

    • He was reckoned among the transgressors
    • For him I reckon not in high estate Whom long descent of birth, Or the sphere of fortune, raises
  • 3

    To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

    • […] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
    • Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.
  • 4

    To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause

    • I reckon he won't try that again.
    • I’ve just heard from the repairman: it's going to cost £1000. I'd reckoned it’d be £500 at most.
  • 5

    To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e. to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host

    • There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and I will.
  • 6

    To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

  • 7

    To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

reckonnoun詞源 1/ˈɹɛkən/

  • 1

    informalAn impression or opinion.

    • Shaggy asked him, ' 'Ow dew yew a reckon on your turnips, Fred?'
    • I wouldn't get much of an idea what the site was like until daylight but it was close to the cook fires and the food stalls and entertainment tents so, my reckons it was perfect.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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