喜樂美語
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    vB2

    /ˈspeʃəlaɪz/

    To spend all or most of your study, work, or business on one particular subject or activity, instead of on many different ones.

    專攻；專門做

    過去式 specialized過去分詞 specialized-ing specializing三單 specializes

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

One way to hold it: instead of spreading yourself thin over many things, you narrow down to one and pour everything into it.

一束光收攏成一點。原本你的時間和力氣散在很多方向——什麼都碰一點，什麼都不深；specialize 是把那些方向收掉…更多收起一束光收攏成一點。原本你的時間和力氣散在很多方向——什麼都碰一點，什麼都不深；specialize 是把那些方向收掉，只留一條，然後把全部的心力灌進去。所以這個字底下永遠有一個對照組：你放棄的那些「其他」，正是它變強的代價。

原始詞典資料9 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。

specializeverb/ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/

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    obsoleteTo make distinct or separate from what is common

    • Firſt laſh the Great-ones ; but, if thou be wiſe, / In generall, and doe not ſpeciallize : / Yet, if thou doe, ſo wiſely let it be, / None may except but thoſe that faulty be.
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    rareTo make distinct or separate from what is common

    • Our Sauiour specialising and nominating the places in which these false prophets should teach his presence to be.
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    To make distinct or separate from what is common

    • He is at moſt a confuſed and wild Chriſtian, not ſpecialized by any form, but capable of all.
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    biologynatural-sciencesTo make distinct or separate from what is common

    • In the lowest orders of being, we find these functions very much blended together, and several of them apparently performed by one simple apparatus ; but in proportion as we rise in the scale, we perceive that they are specialized, or separated from each other, and that a complicated set of organs is appropriated to each of them.
    • Those who insist that a woman’s place is at home by divine decree need only to study the life of primitive man to find out how very human are some of our domestic customs, for they will then see this distinction, that while nature has specialized woman for child-bearing, it is society which has specialized her for housework.
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    To become distinct or separate from what is common, particularly

    • These cells specialized for propagation, however they may originate, are accordingly distinguished by a special name, that of Spores of Sporules.
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    To become distinct or separate from what is common

    • Also, to their honour be it said, they will not allow their scholars to specialize, and, with four hours of mathematics a week, even a Newton would not go up to Cambridge knowing much.
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    To become distinct or separate from what is common

    • Firms... which have specialised in the manufacture of ‘heavies’...
    • Blackhead: I might look you up myself one of these days. Do you specialise at all, like? Penny Guy: Yeah. Verbal abuse and colonic irrigation.
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    derogatoryTo become distinct or separate from what is common

    • Watson specializes in adiposeness; none of his chorus beauties may be considered featherweights.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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    To train (someone) in a specialty.

    • "Kia, Honey, you got to help him to it," Bell Norton told the 16 year old girl she was "specializing" as part of the hospital's intensive care program for high risk babies and mothers.

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。