核心畫面

Some person — there is a person there, but we are not pinning down who. From that 'a person who counts as someone' grows the idea of a person who really counts.

可以想成「有那麼一個人」——確實存在一個人,但我們不指明、或不知道是誰。字面就是 some(某個)+ body(人)更多收起可以想成「有那麼一個人」——確實存在一個人,但我們不指明、或不知道是誰。字面就是 some(某個)+ body(人)。有趣的是,從「算是個人物」這個味道,又長出了「真正算得上人物」的意思。

From the picture

重要人物(真正算得上的人)

從「算是個人」推到「真正算得上一號人物」——同一個 somebody,加重了語氣就成了「了不起的人」。

important person · noun · A2

An important or special person; someone who matters.

重要人物

Also in this word

someone, unspecified · pronoun · A2

Some person, not named, because you do not know who or do not say.

某人/有人

原始詞典資料4 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。

somebodypron/ˈsʌmbˌɒdi/

  • 1

    Some unspecified person.

    • Somebody has to clean this mess up.
  • 2

    Synonym of someone; an important person.

    • He could have been somebody!

somebodynoun/ˈsʌmbˌɒdi/

  • 1

    Any person.

    • In the nature of things a good many somebodies are always in hospital, and the law of averages had picked on me to be one of them a week or so before.
    • So there, I know, was somebody or a combination of somebodys who did not know what the heck they were doing or dealing with.
  • 2

    A recognised or important person, a celebrity.

    • I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.

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