告訴你怎麼做的那幾行字
紅字的第一個功能:先讀我,我告訴你這件事要怎麼進行。
noun · C1
A short set of instructions or notes printed at the start of an exam paper, a form or a section of a book, telling you what to do and how to do it.
作答說明
Red words on a page that are not the text itself: they sit above it or beside it and tell you what this part is, or how it is to be done.
Wiktionary traces rubric to Latin rubrica, red ochre — the substance used to make red letters — from ruber, red. The colour is the whole story: headings and directions were written in red so they stood apart from the text.
來源資料指出 rubric 來自拉丁文 rūbrīca(紅土顏料),也就是用來寫紅字的材料,字根是 ruber(紅色)。顏色就是整個故事:標題和指示用紅墨水寫,好跟黑色的正文分開。所以這個字從一開始講的就不是內容本身,而是替內容做記號的那幾行字。
Wiktionary entry for rubric (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1178234609), supplied in the evidence packet
Two branches
告訴你怎麼做的那幾行字
紅字的第一個功能:先讀我,我告訴你這件事要怎麼進行。
noun · C1
A short set of instructions or notes printed at the start of an exam paper, a form or a section of a book, telling you what to do and how to do it.
作答說明
把東西歸進去的那個標題
紅字的另一個功能:不是教你怎麼做,而是替下面這一堆東西取一個名字。
noun · C1
A heading or name that a group of different things is placed under, so that they can be listed, counted or talked about together.
名目、標題