喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to picture it: something that had gone quiet or nearly died is breathed back into life — it does not appear for the first time, it comes back and starts moving again.

某個東西本來已經奄奄一息、沉寂下去了——生意冷掉、身體虛弱、一種風格沒人再提——然後有一股力量把它重新喚醒，它又開始…更多收起某個東西本來已經奄奄一息、沉寂下去了——生意冷掉、身體虛弱、一種風格沒人再提——然後有一股力量把它重新喚醒，它又開始活動、又有了熱度。重點在「本來就有過，中間衰弱或消失了，現在再回來」，所以它不是誕生，而是回魂。revive 是那個動作，revival 是那件事發生的整個過程。

Three branches

活力回來了

這一族最貼近核心畫面本身：某個原本衰弱的東西重新變得有力氣、有動能。

becoming strong again · noun · C2

A process in which something that had grown weak becomes active or strong again.

復甦

又紅起來了

把「重新有活力」放到流行的世界裡：不是某個東西自己活過來，而是大眾的注意力又回到它身上。

becoming popular again · noun · C2

A time when something becomes popular again, such as music, food, or a style.

再度流行

信仰的重新點燃

同樣是把冷掉的東西再點燃，只是被點燃的是人心裡的信仰熱度；宗教用法久了之後，這個字也定下來指那個聚會本身。

religious meeting · noun · C2

A religious meeting where people gather to make their faith feel strong and new again.

奮興會

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。

revivalnoun/ɹɪˈvaɪ̯vəl/

  • 1

    The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.

  • 2

    Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.

    • It is hard to sell a democratic partnership of nations from a stall that only stocks Conservative governments. Unionism needs a Labour revival in England.
  • 3

    Renewed interest, performance, cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of culture, commerce, agriculture.

    • post-punk revival
    • The Met's recent revival of Jürgen Flimm's powerful production of Beethoven's “Fidelio,” another highlight of the 2000-1 season, was a similar letdown. But revivals of great productions don't always have to be disappointments, as the Met's current presentation of Poulenc's “Dialogues des Carmélites” makes clear.
  • 4

    Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.

    • the revival of hot pants
    • Kat Frey, a 25-year-old copywriter who lives in Brooklyn, picked up the habit last year. “We’re having a very sexy and ethereal 1980s revival, and smoking is part of that,” she said. “A lot of people I know are posting pictures doing it. I’m doing it. It’s having its moment for sure.”
  • 5

    lifestylereligionRenewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.

    • As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.
    • This book offers a view into a growing movement of Islamic revival as it is taking place in the small, historically Hindu kingdom of Nepal on the northern Himalayan edge of the Indian subcontinent.
  • 6

    ChristianitylifestylereligionRenewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.

  • 7

    lawRestoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; reinstatement of a legal action.

    • the revival of a debt barred by limitation
    • the revival of a revoked will
  • 8

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesRevivification, as of a metal.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    broadcastingmediatelevisionType of sequence on TV media with the objective to end a cancelled production.

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。