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A scion is a young member of a famous or important family — the child or of people with money, power, or a well-known name. Newspapers like the word: a scion of a political family. It is formal and a bit old-fashioned; friends would just say the son or daughter of….
A scion是指 is a young member of a famous or important family一個顯赫或重要家族裡的年輕成員 — the child or grandchild of people with money, power, or a well-known name也就是有錢有勢或家世顯赫的人家的子孫. Newspapers like the word報紙很愛用這個詞: a scion of a political family像是某政治世家之後. It is formal and a bit old-fashioned這個詞很正式,也有點老派; friends would just say朋友之間只會說 the son or daughter of…某某人的兒子或女兒.
Though actually the first meaning in English is a young shoot of a plant, the piece cut off to graft onto another tree. The family meaning grew from that picture: a new shoot from an old stem.
Though actually不過其實, the first meaning in English英文裡最早的意思 is a young shoot of a plant是植物的嫩芽, the piece gardeners cut off to graft onto another tree也就是園丁剪下來、嫁接到另一棵樹上的那一段枝. The family meaning grew from that picture家族後代這個意思就是從這個畫面延伸出來的: a new shoot from an old stem老莖上長出的新芽.
Both senses are still alive, but usually meet the “young person from an important family” sense in the news first.
Both senses are still alive這兩個意思現在都還在使用, but learners usually meet不過學習者通常會先遇到 the "young person from an important family" sense「豪門子弟」這個意思 in the news first在新聞報導裡.
組成From Middle English sion / scion, from Old French cion, from Frankish *kīþō / *kīþ, from a Germanic word for a sprout, ultimately from a root meaning to split open or sprout — the same source as Old English ċīþ (a young shoot). Doublet of chit (the plant/child one, not the paper note).
同家族的字
- chitdoublet in the old “young shoot / young one” sense, not the chit that means a small note
原始詞典資料4 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。
scionnoun/ˈsaɪən/
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A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.
- No senate seats in council for the dead; no scion of a time honoured dynasty pants to rule over the inhabitants of a charnel house; the general's hand is cold, and the soldier has his untimely grave dug in his native fields, unhonoured, though in youth.
- Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
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The heir to a throne.
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A guardian.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.
- [If] you finde a certaine miſlike or conſumption in the plant, you ſhall immediatly vvith a ſharp knife cut the plant off ſlope-vviſe upvvard, about three fingers from the ground, and ſo let it reſt till the next ſpring, at vvhich time you ſhall behold nevv cyons iſſue from the roote, […]
- He used to think that the plums in this country weren’t good enough, and so he has reformed them, grafting scion to rootstock.
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。