- 1名門之後；豪門子弟（園藝上也指用來嫁接的嫩枝）
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…. 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. Both senses are still alive, but usually meet the “young person from an important family” sense in the news first.
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
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.
- 2
The heir to a throne.
- 3
A guardian.
- 4
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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。