核心畫面

You can picture a 'scheme' as a laid-out arrangement — a figure or plan with all the parts set in their places, like a diagram you draw before you act. Everything else the word does grows from that laid-out shape.

可以把 scheme 想成一張「布局圖」——把各個部分都擺到定位的一套安排或設計,像你動手之前先畫好的架構。它其他的更多收起可以把 scheme 想成一張「布局圖」——把各個部分都擺到定位的一套安排或設計,像你動手之前先畫好的架構。它其他的意思都是從這張擺好位置的圖長出來的。

From the word’s history

From Greek skhema 'a shape, figure, form, appearance', via Latin schema. It first meant a figure or form, then a diagram showing how parts sit together, then a plan of action — and only later did the 'sly, self-serving plan' shading creep in.

來自希臘文 skhema(形狀、圖形、樣式、外觀),經拉丁文 schema 進入英語。它先指一個形/圖,再指顯示各部分如何配置的圖式,接著才變成「行動的計畫」,最後才染上「暗中算計」那層貶義。

etymonline.com/word/scheme (Online Etymology Dictionary)

From the picture

帶著壞心眼偷偷擺的算計

同一張布局圖,只是這次是偷偷擺、為了佔便宜或害人而擺。當你不認同對方那套精心設計時,scheme 就從中性的「安排」滑向「詭計、算計」這層貶義。

scheme, dishonest plan · noun · B2

A clever plan to do something bad or dishonest, used when you do not approve of it.

詭計/花招

Also in this word

system, arrangement · noun · B2

A system or way of organizing information, ideas, or things.

系統/方式

official plan, programme · noun · B2

An official plan or program made by a government or organization to help people, for example with training or money.

方案/計畫

原始詞典資料13 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。

Schemename/skiːm/

  • 1

    A programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.

schemenoun/skiːm/

  • 1

    obsoleteAn artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

  • 2

    astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismA representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

    • a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity
  • 3

    A systematic plan of future action.

    • The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
    • Originally the opening had doubtless marked the projection of another road, but the scheme had come to nothing.
  • 4

    A plot or secret, devious plan.

    • Her brain is continually fermenting new schemes.
  • 5

    An orderly combination of related parts.

    • the appearance and outward scheme of things
    • such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity
  • 6

    A chart or diagram of a system or object.

    • April 29, 1694, Robert South, A Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France
  • 7

    mathematicssciencesA mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring).

  • 8

    A council housing estate.

    • It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme.
    • “You can’t really say to the kids in the schemes [Scottish council estates]^([sic]): don’t do drugs, they’ll wreck your life, you’ll never get a job or a house or buy nice things.”
另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.

  • 10

    A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.

schemeverb/skiːm/

  • 1

    To plot, or contrive a plan; to maneuver.

    • Laura snatches coins from inside a truck to make a telephone call, scrounges shoes and clothes for them at a municipal beach, schemes to get a room key so she and Howie can sleep overnight in the Starlight Motel, steals a Jeepster from a deputy sheriff who's trying to arrest them.
    • The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.
  • 2

    To plan; to contrive; to maneuver.

    • He schemed a plot. He made use of the hotel's stationery to write a letter.

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