- 1護身符、避邪物（運動報導中也指「球隊的精神支柱、王牌球員」）
An object people believe carries magic power to protect or help whoever owns it — a stone, a ring, a small , a piece of writing worn round the neck. The key idea is protection and good fortune flowing from the object itself, not just a happy feeling. It is a slightly literary, old-feeling word, at home in stories about magic, in history and in writing about religion, more than in daily conversation. Two extensions are worth knowing. People use it loosely for any object they keep for luck even without really believing in magic — a footballer's old boots, a pen used to pass an exam. And in British sports writing it has a special use: a team's star player is called their talisman, meaning the team seems to win when he plays and lose when he does not. The plural is talismans, with a plain -s. There is also a rare verb, to talisman something, meaning to protect it with such a charm, but you will almost never meet it.
組成Came into English from French talisman. The trail leads back through Arabic طِلَّسْم (ṭillasm) and Byzantine Greek τέλεσμα (télesma, "a completed religious rite; a consecrated object"), from Greek τελέω (teléō, "to perform a rite, to complete") and τέλος (télos, "end, completion, fulfilment"). So at its root the word means something that has been finished off by a ritual — an object made powerful by a ceremony.
同家族的字
- telescopefrom Greek têle-, 'far' — a common guess, but a DIFFERENT Greek root from télos 'end'; not related
原始詞典資料3 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。
talismannoun詞源 1/ˈtæl.ɪsˌmæn/
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A magical object providing protection against ill will, or the supernatural, or conferring the wearer with a boon such as good luck, good health, or certain powers.
- That woman’s love is a talisman by which he holds and hopes to get his safety.
- I have in my possession three Magic Talismans, which I have ever guarded with utmost care, keeping the knowledge of their existence from anyone else.
talismanverb詞源 1/ˈtæl.ɪsˌmæn/
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To adorn with a talisman.
- The second in his saddle reeled, / Down thundered man and horse;— / Oft I essayed with blow and thrust, / As oft a foeman rolled in dust; / But, ah, what could a single arm, / Though talismaned by beauty’s charm, / Against a host?—for love—for life— / I waged awhile the desperate strife; / ’T was vain—I fell—was left for dead— / And rescued was th’ unwilling maid!
- Lo, under their coats, amulets of idols! Possibly such charms talismaned every breast in his army.
talismannoun詞源 2/ˈtæl.ɪsˌmæn/
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obsoleteA mullah (Islamic religious scholar).
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。