核心畫面
Think of it as holding a name up at arm's length before using it: 'this is what people call it.' You put the label on, but you stay one step outside it — sometimes just to introduce the name, sometimes to hint you don't buy it.
可以想成你在用一個名字之前，先把它拎起來、跟自己隔開一小段距離說：「大家是這樣叫它的。」你照樣把這個標籤貼上去，但你…更多收起
可以想成你在用一個名字之前，先把它拎起來、跟自己隔開一小段距離說：「大家是這樣叫它的。」你照樣把這個標籤貼上去，但你人站在標籤外面。距離拉得輕，就只是在介紹一個名稱；距離拉得重，語氣就變成「他們是這樣叫啦，我可不這麼認為」。同一個手勢，兩種力道。原始詞典資料2 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。
so-calledadj/ˈsəʊˌkɔːld/
- 1
So named; commonly called.
- the so-called Ising mode
- About 200 guests were invited and entertained to lunch in the so-called booking hall at Waterloo; the contractors, Spiers & Pond Limited, were much praised for organising the repast, with attendant cloak room facilities, so well in such unfavourable surroundings.
- 2
Commonly called by such a name, but false or unfitting.
- These so-called "assistants" are making our jobs harder, not easier!
- […]dawdling away the hours in the Park as if all the world and its millions of honest hard workers were created solely for the casual diversion of the so-called 'upper' classes,[…]
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。