喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture a hand reaching into a group and lifting out just the right one — not at random, but the best or most suitable. That act of carefully picking out is the core; the adjective is simply the result: the few that have been picked out, set apart from the rest.

可以想成一隻手伸進一群東西裡,挑出剛剛好的那一個——不是隨便抓,而是挑最好、最合適的。這個「仔細挑出來」的動作,就是…更多收起可以想成一隻手伸進一群東西裡,挑出剛剛好的那一個——不是隨便抓,而是挑最好、最合適的。這個「仔細挑出來」的動作,就是整個字的核心。形容詞用法只是這個動作的結果:被挑出來的那一小撮,跟其他的分開、自成一格。

原始詞典資料5 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。

Selectnoun

  • 1

    A button (of a joystick, joypad or similar device) that, when pressed, activates any of certain predefined functions that usually, but not always, involve selecting something out of a list of items.

selectadj/sɪˈlɛkt/

  • 1

    Privileged, specially selected.

    • Only a select few were allowed into the premiere.
    • The child was upset when he was cut from select soccer and had to play on his school team with the rest of the plebes.
  • 2

    Of high quality; top-notch.

    • This is a select cut of beef.
    • The two sisters at once called on Mrs. Bolton, in a newish house in a row, quite select for Tevershall.

selectverb/sɪˈlɛkt/

  • 1

    To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.

    • He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.
    • The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.
  • 2

    computingdatabasesengineeringTo obtain a set of data from a database using a query.

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。