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Think of a person who looks at a situation with clear eyes, weighs what will actually work, and then chooses that — not the flashy option, not the wishful one. The word grew out of "having sense": sense as the faculty that takes the world in and reads it correctly. From that one root two directions open — the mind that judges well, and the thing that can be sensed at all.

可以想成一個人面對事情時，眼睛是清楚的：他先看實際狀況，權衡哪個做法真的行得通，然後就選那個——不選最好看的，也不選…更多收起可以想成一個人面對事情時，眼睛是清楚的：他先看實際狀況，權衡哪個做法真的行得通，然後就選那個——不選最好看的，也不選最想要的。這個字底下藏著 sense（感受、判斷力）這條線：sense 是把世界收進來、讀對它的那個能力。從這一個根長出兩個方向——一邊是判斷得準的腦袋，一邊是「能被感受到」的東西本身。

原始詞典資料10 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。

sensibleadj/ˈsɛn.sɪ.bəl/

  • 1

    Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason or wisdom, or reflecting such ability.

    • They ask questions of someone who thinks he's got something sensible to say on some matter when actually he hasn't.
  • 2

    Characterized more by usefulness, practicality, or comfort than by attractiveness, formality, or fashionableness, especially of clothing.

    • I only wear high heels on formal occasions; otherwise, I prefer sensible shoes.
    • “Delightful vision! A comfortable armchair, situated in three different draughts, at every ballroom; and nice, large, sensible shoes for all the couples to stumble over as they go into the veranda!”
  • 3

    formalAble to be sensed by the senses or the psyche; able to be perceived.

    • For Plato the belief in sensible objects is fallible.
    • Air is sensible to the Touch by its Motion, and by its Resistance to Bodies moved in it.
  • 4

    archaicAble to feel or perceive.

    • Would your cambric were sensible as your finger.
  • 5

    archaicLiable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.

    • a sensible thermometer
    • with affection wondrous sensible
  • 6

    archaicOf or pertaining to the senses; sensory.

  • 7

    archaicCognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.

    • He cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
    • A bright Meſſenger from Heaven, made the Man of GOD ſenſible, That a Remarkable Safety ſhould be granted unto him, and therefore unto all the Company vvith Him.

sensiblenoun/ˈsɛn.sɪ.bəl/

  • 1

    obsoleteSensation; sensibility.

    • Our temper changed […] which must needs remove the sensible of pain.
  • 2

    obsoleteThat which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible.

    • Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper.
    • Accordingly, with respect to their knowability or opinability, Socrates makes no distinction among the sensibles between natural things and artifacts (510a5–6); both are relegated to the realm of opinion. Hence, there is no Socratic-Platonic biology.
  • 3

    obsoleteThat which has sensibility; a sensitive being.

    • This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.

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。