喜樂美語

核心畫面

The word is scholar + -ship, the same -ship that turns friend into friendship and member into membership: it names the condition of being that kind of person. So scholarship can be thought of as the whole business of being a scholar — years of reading, checking where a claim came from, work done slowly and carefully. Everything the word means grows out of that picture: the work itself, and the money that lets someone live it.

這個字是 scholar 加上 -ship，跟 friendship（友誼）、membership（會員身分）裡的 …更多收起這個字是 scholar 加上 -ship，跟 friendship（友誼）、membership（會員身分）裡的 -ship 是同一個：它指的是「當那種人的那個狀態」。所以 scholarship 可以想成「當一個學者是怎麼一回事」——長年讀書、追查一句話的出處、一步一步慢慢做出來的功夫。它的兩個意思都從這幅畫面長出來：一個是那份功夫本身，一個是讓人有辦法過這種日子的錢。

Two branches

做學問這件事本身

核心畫面最直接的樣子：不是指某個人，而是指那份功夫——研究做得多細、資料查得多穩。

academic study, rigor · noun · B2

serious study, and the careful knowledge or methods that come from it.

學問；學術研究

讓人去做學問的錢

從核心畫面往外一步：讀書要有錢才過得下去，於是「供人當 scholar 的那筆錢」也被叫成 scholarship——名字取自它買到的那件事。

money for education · noun · B1

money given by a school, college, or other group to help a student pay for their education.

獎學金

原始詞典資料7 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。

scholarshipnoun/ˈskɒləʃɪp/

  • 1

    A grant-in-aid to a student.

    • There were proposals to revive choir scholarships, because a shortage of regular choristers meant that weddings often went choirless.
    • Since I was a teenager I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school.
  • 2

    The character or qualities of a scholar.

  • 3

    The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.

  • 4

    The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.

    • I found the website and found people mingling scholarship with faith – great googly moogly!
  • 5

    datedThe first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.

scholarshipverb/ˈskɒləʃɪp/

  • 1

    To attend an institution on a scholarship.

    • Up from the tenements of the Lower East Side, he had scholarshiped at Cornell and Harvard Law.
  • 2

    To grant a scholarship to.

    • In the first year, twenty children were scholarshiped to attend the Kids Across America Kamp in Branson, Missouri.
    • Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.

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。