核心畫面

Show means to put a thing where people can see it. Add -ing and you get the moment of that: the one time it stands in front of an audience. Sometimes what stands there is a film or a wall of paintings. Sometimes it is a person, doing what they can do while others watch and judge.

可以想成 show(把東西擺到別人看得到的地方)加上 -ing,變成「被看見的那一次」。有時候被看見的是一部電影、一更多收起可以想成 show(把東西擺到別人看得到的地方)加上 -ing,變成「被看見的那一次」。有時候被看見的是一部電影、一批畫。有時候被看見的是一個人,在別人眼前把本事做出來。兩種都是同一個畫面:這一次露臉,而且有人在看。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary traces the noun to Old English sceawung, a looking at, an examination, an appearance. Looking and appearing sit together in that one old word, which is where both modern uses come from.

Wiktionary 記載這個名詞來自古英語 sċēawung,意思包含「看、查看、外觀、樣子」。「被看」和「看起來如何」在這個古字裡本來就連在一起。今天的兩個意思,一個留在「給人看的場合」,一個留在「看起來的表現」。

Wiktionary entry for showing, supplied in the evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1090156611)

Two branches

給人看的那一場

最貼近核心畫面的一支:東西擺出來,人被請來看,那一次就叫一個 showing。

noun · B1

An occasion when a film, a set of paintings, or something else is put in front of people to look at, often a special occasion that people are invited to.

放映場次;展出

被看見的表現

把「被看見的那一次」裡的東西換成人:人站到眾人面前做一次,別人就用這一次來評。

noun · B2

The level of success or ability that a person or a thing shows on one occasion, as other people judge it — a strong showing, a poor showing.

表現(一次的)

原始詞典資料3 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。

showingnoun詞源 2/ˈʃəʊɪŋ/

  • 1

    An occasion when something is shown.

    • We went to the midnight showing of the new horror movie.
  • 2

    A result, a judgement.

    • He made a poor showing at his first time at bat.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。