喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture sister as the female you grew up beside — same parents, same house, bound to you by blood. From that one image of a close female who shares your origin, the word stretches outward: to women bound by a shared faith, a shared cause, or a shared identity, and even to two things 'born of the same group'. The thread running through all of it is 'a female counterpart who shares the same source as you'.

可以想成 sister 是那個和你一起長大的女性——同樣的父母、同一個家，血緣把你們綁在一起。從這個「與你同源的親近…更多收起可以想成 sister 是那個和你一起長大的女性——同樣的父母、同一個家，血緣把你們綁在一起。從這個「與你同源的親近女性」的畫面，這個字往外延伸：延伸到因共同信仰、共同志業、共同身分而相繫的女性，甚至延伸到兩個「出自同一群體」的事物。貫穿這一切的線，是「一個和你同源的女性對應者」。

From the picture

同源的女性情誼

把血緣的姊妹搬到非血緣的關係上：因為共同的信仰、共同的處境或共同的身分，女性彼此以姊妹相待。同源的不再是父母，而是一份共有的歸屬，但那種「我們是一邊的」的親近感不變。

nun · noun · A1

A woman who is a member of a religious group and lives a life of prayer; a nun.

修女

同源的機構（姊妹機構）

把「同源的女性」這個關係，從人借到事物上：兩家公司、兩份報紙若屬於同一個母集團，就像出自同一對父母的姊妹。同源的概念不變，只是對應者從人換成了機構。

sister company · noun · A1

Used before a noun to show that a company, newspaper, etc. belongs to the same group as another.

姊妹（公司／報社等）

護理長（英式）

這支源自宗教護理的傳統：早年醫院由修女（sisters）照護病人，於是「sister」這個稱呼留在了病房裡，演變成負責一個病區的資深護士。它從「修女」那一支再岔出來，仍隱隱帶著「以姊妹／修女身分照顧人」的影子。

hospital sister (nurse) · noun · A1

In British English, a nurse who is in charge of a part of a hospital.

護理長

Also in this word

sibling sister · noun · A1

Your parents' other daughter, older or younger than you.

姊妹

原始詞典資料17 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。

Sisternoun

  • 1

    Title of respect for an adult female member of a religious order.

    • At the convent, Sister Grace supervises the kitchen.
    • Please welcome Sister Smith as she moves from her former congregation to her new congregation.
  • 2

    Title of respect for an adult female member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.

    • Sister Huerta was to have been our initial speaker this morning. However, we received word later this morning that Sister Huerta would be unable to attend our convention.
  • 3

    A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.

    • Native American leader Chief Seattle urged ecological responsibility, referring to Brother Eagle and Sister Sky in his purported 1854 speech.

sisternoun/ˈsɪs.tə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.

    • My sister is always driving me crazy.
  • 2

    A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.

    • Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.
  • 3

    Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.

  • 4

    A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.

  • 5

    Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.

    • Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister.
    • Sisters are doing it for themselves / Standing on their own two feet
  • 6

    slangA black woman.

    • A fly sister rolled in with a suitcase full of hip-hop novels called The Glamorous Life, and an African brother with long dreads wanted to sell them some incense and some fake Jacob watches.
    • The short “naps” of the average Sister do not sway in the wind as that of a blonde.
  • 7

    informalA form of address to a woman.

    • What’s up, sister?
    • "Listen, sister. I've got a job for you."
  • 8

    A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.

    • Thank you, sister. I would like to thank the sister who just spoke.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.

    • sister publication
    • sister city
  • 10

    computingcomputing-theoryengineeringA node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.

  • 11

    Something in the same class.

    • sister ships
    • sister facility
  • 12

    One of two tornados that form in close proximity at the same time or in quick succession.

sisterverb/ˈsɪs.tə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    businessconstructionmanufacturingTo strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.

    • I’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists.
  • 2

    obsoleteTo be sister to; to resemble closely.

    • Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composes Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry, That even her art sisters the natural roses; Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry

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。