核心畫面
You wanted something, or you were working towards something — so there was an open gap. Satisfaction can be pictured as that gap being filled: the wanting is answered, and what is left in its place is a settled, pleased feeling. Because the picture is 'the gap gets filled', the word can point either at the feeling inside you, or at the act of filling the gap itself.
可以想成「缺口被填滿的那一刻」:你原本想要某個東西,或正在努力完成某件事,心裡就有一個空著、不太安穩的位置;等到東西…更多收起
可以想成「缺口被填滿的那一刻」:你原本想要某個東西,或正在努力完成某件事,心裡就有一個空著、不太安穩的位置;等到東西到手、事情做成,那個位置被填平了,留下來的那種踏實又愉快的感覺,就是 satisfaction。也因為畫面比較像「缺口被填滿」,這個字既可以指你心裡的那份感覺,也可以指「把缺的東西補上」這個動作本身——後者聽起來比較正式。原始詞典資料6 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。
satisfactionnoun/sætɪsˈfækʃən/
- 1
A fulfilment of a need or desire.
- The witch, repository of hieratic lore and folk legends and occult arcana, became the distributor of philtres and unguents, electuaries and pastilles, herbs and charms and incantations - directed toward sexual pleasures and amatory satisfactions.
- 2
The pleasure obtained by the fulfillment of one or more needs or desires; a sense of contentment with one's situation and achievements.
- November 4, 1860, Henry David Thoreau, letter to Mr. D. R. This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
- Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
- 3
The source of such gratification.
- 4
A reparation for an injury or loss.
- 5
A vindication for a wrong suffered.
- The count demanded satisfaction in the form of a duel at dawn.
- He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.
- 6
Sexual pleasure.
- To young man who enjoys receiving oral satisfaction, this BiWM will give you all you want.
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。