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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.
Self-esteem Self-esteem is how warmly you regard yourself指你對自己的看法有多正面——whether you feel your abilities are all right是不是覺得自己的能力還可以，and whether you feel you deserve to be liked and treated with respect是不是覺得自己值得被喜歡、被尊重對待。Teachers, doctors, and magazines老師、醫生和雜誌 use the word constantly常常用到這個字
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.
People人們 talk about high self-esteem and low self-esteem講high self-esteem和low self-esteem的時候，as if they were a tank of water that can be full or nearly empty好像它們是一桶水，可以是滿的，也可以快見底
High self-esteem is not the same as showing off. A person can think well of themselves quietly.
High self-esteem High self-esteem is not the same as showing off不等於愛炫耀。A person一個人 can think well of themselves quietly可以安安靜靜地覺得自己不錯
Low self-esteem is not the same as being polite or modest; it is a sore feeling that you do not count.
Low self-esteem Low self-esteem is not the same as being polite or modest不等於有禮貌或謙虛；it它 is a sore feeling that you do not count是一種覺得自己不算什麼的難受感覺
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.
Though actually不過事實上，the tidy "high / low" picture那個整整齊齊的「高／低」畫面 is tidier than life比現實生活整齊多了。Self-esteem Self-esteem often moves with the room you are in常常隨著你所在的場合變動：sure in one subject, shaky in another在某個科目很有自信，換一個又不太確定。And some people有些人 sound proud in order to cover a lack of it聽起來很驕傲，其實是為了掩蓋自己的自尊心不足
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，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。
self-esteemnoun/ˌsɛlf.əˈstiːm/
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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.
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。