- 1堅忍的人；不喊苦、不抱怨的人。大寫的 Stoic 指古希臘羅馬的「斯多噶學派（斯多亞學派）」。注意中文常說的「淡定」偏向冷靜自若，stoic 則特別指「痛苦時忍著不說」。
A stoic is a person who stays calm and quiet when life hurts — they do not cry out, do not complain, and do not let you see how much it costs them. It is also an adjective: a stoic silence, a stoic acceptance of bad news. Note carefully what the word does and does not claim. It says nothing about whether the person feels the pain; it only says they do not show it. That is why the word can be used with real admiration ('she was stoic through all of it') and, in the same breath, with worry — English speakers often use stoic about someone who is holding too much in. The word also has a capital-letter meaning: a Stoic is a follower of an ancient Greek and Roman school of philosophy that taught you should accept what you cannot change and not be ruled by your feelings. Modern writing about 'Stoicism' as a way of living uses the word this second way. In ordinary conversation is often used instead of the adjective stoic; both are correct, and stoic sounds slightly more modern.
From the word’s history
From Latin stoicus, from Greek, after the Stoa Poikile ('painted portico') in Athens where Zeno taught.
源自希臘文，指雅典的「彩繪柱廊」Stoa，哲學家芝諾在那裡講學。
組成From Latin stōicus, from Greek Stōïkós. The Greek word points at a place: the Stoa Poikile, the 'painted porch' in Athens where the teacher Zeno stood and taught. So the philosophy — and eventually every quiet, uncomplaining person in English — is named after a covered walkway with pictures on the walls.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Stoicnoun詞源 2
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A student of Stowe School, England.
stoicnoun/ˈstəʊ.ɪk/
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesProponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.
- The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved; and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same.
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A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.
- Even a Rolls-Royce owner, I began to feel, would be a stoic to travel across Europe by car when the "Rheingold" is on offer.
stoicadj/ˈstəʊ.ɪk/
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Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.
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Not affected by pain or distress.
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Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.
- It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accept the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.
- I suspect that cancer doesn't give a rat's ass whether you have a positive mental attitude. It just sits in there multiplying away, whether you are admirably stoic or weeping and wailing.
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