- 1心電感應（傳心術）。日常開玩笑說「我們有心電感應」最常見，跟真的相不相信無關。
Telepathy is the idea that one mind can send thoughts straight to another mind — no talking, no writing, no signal of any kind. You think it, and the other person receives it. It belongs with ghosts, fortune-telling, and moving objects by thought: things many people enjoy, and science has never been able to show are real. Careful writers therefore treat it as a claim, not a fact — 'she claimed to have telepathy' rather than 'she has telepathy'.
In science fiction and fantasy it is everywhere, and there it is simply a power a character has, like flying.
But here is the use your students will actually meet most, and it is not the spooky one. English speakers use telepathy as a warm joke about two people who know each other very well. You start a sentence and your sister finishes it; you both reach for the same thing at the same second; you're about to text a friend and their message arrives first. 'It must be telepathy.' Nobody saying this believes anything supernatural happened — it is a nice way of saying 'we think alike'. This joking use is far more common in everyday speech than the serious one.
The adjective is 'telepathic': 'a telepathic alien', or 'we're practically telepathic after twenty years of marriage'. Note there is no ordinary verb — you cannot say 'I telepathied him'. Say 'read my mind' instead, which is the everyday phrase: 'You read my mind — I was just going to suggest that.'
組成tele- + -pathy. 'tele-' is Greek for 'far'. '-pathy' is Greek 'pathos', feeling or suffering — the piece that means feeling. So telepathy is 'feeling at a distance': what is in one mind felt in another far away. The word is not ancient; it was made in English in 1882 by a researcher studying these claims.
原始詞典資料1 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。
telepathynoun/tɛˈlɛp.ə.θi/
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parapsychologypseudoscienceThe capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
- Gerwin Schalk and Anthony Ritaccio, at the Albany Medical Center, are working under a multimillion-dollar grant from the U.S. military to design and develop devices that enable soldiers to communicate telepathically. Although this seems like something out of a science fiction story, the Pentagon believes that these so-called telepathy helmets are sufficiently feasible that it is devoting more than $6 million to the project. The target date for completion of the prototype device is 2017.
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