核心畫面
Think of something shady being dragged out under a bright light. Someone — usually a person with a name or a position — did something dishonest or wrong; it was covered up, and then everyone found out. A scandal is not just the wrong act: it is the act plus the public shock and anger that follows it. Take away the crowd finding out, and the same act is no longer a scandal.
可以想成「見不得光的事被拖到燈下」：有人做了不誠實或不該做的事——通常是有頭有臉、有位置的人——本來蓋著，結果被大家…更多收起
可以想成「見不得光的事被拖到燈下」：有人做了不誠實或不該做的事——通常是有頭有臉、有位置的人——本來蓋著，結果被大家知道了，譁然和氣憤就跟著來。要注意的是，scandal 講的是「那件事＋眾人的反應」一整包，不只是那個壞行為本身；同樣一件事如果沒人發現，就還不算 scandal。也正因為畫面裡有「群眾」，這個字很自然地延伸到人們私下傳的說法，以及「這太不像話了」的那種公憤語氣。原始詞典資料12 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。
scandalnoun/ˈskændəl/
- 1
An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
- Their affair was reported as a scandal by most tabloids.
- O, what a scandal is it to our crown, That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
- 2
Damage to one's reputation.
- The incident brought considerable scandal to his family.
- Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:[…].
- 3
Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
- When their behaviour was made public it caused a great scandal.
- 4
lifestylereligiontheologyA word or deed, lacking in rectitude in some manner, which is an occasion of the spiritual ruin of another.
- 5
Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
- According to village scandal, they weren't even married.
- Scandal at Barchester affirmed that had it not been for the beauty of his daughter, Mr. Harding would have remained a minor canon; but here probably Scandal lied, as she so often does; for even as a minor canon no one had been more popular among his reverend brethren in the close, than Mr. Harding; and Scandal, before she had reprobated Mr. Harding for being made precentor by his friend the bishop, had loudly blamed the bishop for having so long omitted to do something for his friend Mr. Harding.
- 6
amateur or homemade pornography
- 7
informalcommotion.
scandalverb/ˈskændəl/
- 1
obsoleteTo defame; to slander.
- I do fawn on men and hug them hard And after scandal them.
- 2
obsoleteTo scandalize; to offend.
- A propensity to scandal may partly proceed from an inability to distinguish the proper objects of censure
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 Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。