- 1自尊心、自尊
Self-esteem is how you regard yourself — whether you feel your abilities are all right, and whether you feel you deserve to be liked and treated with respect. Teachers, doctors, and magazines use the word constantly. People talk about high self-esteem and low self-esteem as if they were a tank of water that can be full or nearly empty. High self-esteem is not the same as showing off. A person can think well of themselves quietly. Low self-esteem is not the same as being polite or modest; it is a sore feeling that you do not count. Though actually, the tidy “high / low” picture is tidier than life. Self-esteem often moves with the room you are in: sure in one subject, shaky in another. And some people sound proud in order to cover a lack of it.
From the word’s history
From self- + esteem.
由 self-「自己」加 esteem「看重」組成。
組成self- (yourself) + esteem (respect; a high regard). From self- + esteem. To esteem someone is to value them.
同家族的字
- esteemthe second half: respect or high regard
原始詞典資料1 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。
self-esteemnoun/ˌsɛlf.əˈstiːm/
- 1
Confidence in one's own worth; self-respect.
- American companies now put a great deal of effort into boosting their employees' self-esteem by handing out inflated job titles. Most likely, they think it also helps compensate for the longer hours, unpaid overtime and stagnant wages that have become standard. It doesn't.
- People with high self-esteem think they're more popular, charming, and socially skilled than other people, but objective studies find no difference.
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