核心畫面
You can picture the body's natural channels for taking in the world — sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell — the doors through which we pick something up. From that one idea, 'sense' stretches outward: from picking up the world through the body, to picking up a feeling inside, to the mind picking up meaning and judging wisely. Whether it's a nose smelling or a mind a point, sense is about picking something up and registering it.
可以想成：身體接收外在世界的天生管道——視、聽、觸、味、嗅——是我們「接收到」東西的門。從這一個概念，sense 往…更多收起
可以想成：身體接收外在世界的天生管道——視、聽、觸、味、嗅——是我們「接收到」東西的門。從這一個概念，sense 往外伸展：從用身體接收世界，到內心接收到一種感覺，再到頭腦接收到意思、做出明智的判斷。不管是鼻子聞到，還是腦袋抓到一個重點，sense 講的都是「接收到、並登錄下來」這件事。原始詞典資料14 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。
sensenoun/sɛns/
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Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
- What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.
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Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- a sense of security
- this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
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Sound practical or moral judgment.
- It’s common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
- some People so Harden'd in Wickedness, as to have No Sense at all of the most Friendly Offices, or the Highest Benefits.
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The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- You don’t make any sense.
- That just don't make a licka sense to me.
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The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- the various senses of the word “car” (e.g., motor car, elevator car, railcar)
- In this sense it was possible to speak of 'scientific' of 'Marxist' ideology, which Marx and Engels, given their use of the term, could never have done.
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human-scienceslexicographylinguisticsThe meaning, reason, or value of something.
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A natural appreciation or ability.
- A keen musical sense
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human-scienceslinguisticspragmaticsThe way that a referent is presented.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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mathematicssciencesOne of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
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mathematicssciencesOne of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
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biochemistrybiologychemistryreferring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
senseverb/sɛns/
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To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
- 2
To instinctively be aware.
- She immediately sensed her disdain.
- 3
To comprehend.
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。