核心畫面

Picture a real situation — accidents on a road, hours people sleep — squeezed down into a number on a page. That number is what the word points at. Squeezing works: you can compare, plan, and argue with numbers. But something is always left behind in the squeeze, which is why English can say a person became 'just a statistic'.

可以想成:一個真實的情況——某條路上發生的事故、大家睡了多少小時——被壓成紙上的一個數字。statistic 指的就更多收起可以想成:一個真實的情況——某條路上發生的事故、大家睡了多少小時——被壓成紙上的一個數字。statistic 指的就是那個數字。壓縮是有用的:有了數字才能比較、規劃、討論。但壓縮的過程一定會漏掉一些東西,所以英文才會說某個人變成了「只是一個數字」。

Two branches

把情況壓成數字

核心那一面:那些數字本身、單獨一個數字,以及研究這些數字的那門學問。

statistics, data · noun · B2

A set of numbers that show facts or measurements about something.

統計數字;統計資料

被當成數字而不是人

把壓縮的代價講出來:一個人被算進報表,卻沒有被當成人看。

just a statistic · noun · C1

If someone is just a statistic, they are counted only as a number in a report, and people forget that they are a real person.

只是一個數字(沒被當成人看)

原始詞典資料7 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。

statisticnoun/stəˈtɪs.tɪk/

  • 1

    A single item in a statistical study.

  • 2

    A quantity calculated from the data in a sample, which characterises an important aspect in the sample (such as mean or standard deviation).

  • 3

    A person, or personal event, reduced to being an item of statistical information.

    • By dying from an overdose, he became just another statistic.

statisticverb/stəˈtɪs.tɪk/

  • 1

    To analyze or describe using statistics.

    • This is the only subject in the world which has not been statisticked, which is another proof of scientific neglect by the investigators.
    • When you get us all neatly docketed and statisticked, where will you put me?
  • 2

    To cite or calculate statistics.

    • When a fellow quits statisticking for a while, they say, "Oh, haven't you one more statistic?”
    • I ran into what to me is the most horrible statistic I have ever run into in some thirty-five years of statisticking.
  • 3

    To comprise (as statistics)

    • The afternoon game was pitched by Walter Johnson and was the start of the sixteen-game winning streak which statisticked that one in Boston, four in St. Louis, four in Chicago, four in Detroit, three in Cleveland and none for the little boy who lives down the lane.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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