核心畫面

Picture a table that does not wobble when you lean on it. Nothing is happening — and that is exactly the point. Stability names the quality of staying the same when something pushes: prices, a government, a person's life, a chemical in a bottle.

可以想成:一張桌子,你手撐上去它也不會晃。畫面裡沒有什麼精彩的事情在發生,而這正是重點。stability 講的就是更多收起可以想成:一張桌子,你手撐上去它也不會晃。畫面裡沒有什麼精彩的事情在發生,而這正是重點。stability 講的就是「被推了也還是原樣」這個特質——物價、政府、一個人的生活、瓶子裡的化學物質,都可以用同一個字。

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。

stabilitynoun/stəˈbɪlɪti/

  • 1

    The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.

    • This platform offers good stability
  • 2

    The tendency to recover from perturbations.

    • emotional stability
    • Globalization has re-ordered the global economy in ways that are destructive to civic stability, as decentralized, localized producers cannot compete with globalized, commoditized crops, capital, labor and goods.

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