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The part of your character that decides how you tend to feel — whether you are usually calm or easily upset, cheerful or gloomy, quick to anger or slow. It is about your emotional weather, not about your skills or your morals.
The part of your character that decides how you tend to feel你性格裡決定你傾向有什麼感覺的那個部分 — whether you are usually calm or easily upset, cheerful or gloomy, quick to anger or slow你通常是冷靜還是容易心煩、開朗還是陰鬱、容易生氣還是不容易生氣。 It is about your emotional weather這關乎你的情緒天氣, not about your skills or your morals不是你的能力或你的品德。
The important idea is that a temperament is thought of as something you are born with and carry through life, not something you chose or learned. That is why people talk about a baby's temperament, and why you hear "He has a gentle temperament" about a dog or a horse just as easily as about a person.
The important idea is that a temperament is thought of as something you are born with and carry through life重要的是,temperament被認為是你天生就有、一輩子帶著走的東西, not something you chose or learned不是你選擇或學來的。 That is why people talk about a baby's temperament這就是為什麼大家會談論一個嬰兒的temperament, and why you hear 'He has a gentle temperament' about a dog or a horse just as easily as about a person也是為什麼你會聽到「He has a gentle temperament牠╱他性情溫和」用在一隻狗或一匹馬身上,就跟用在人身上一樣自然。
Everybody has one, so it is not automatically bad — but on its own, "She has a temperament" or "a temperamental person" usually hints at a difficult, moody one, especially about artists and performers. You also meet fixed phrases: "be suited by temperament to something" means your nature fits the work.
Everybody has one, so it is not automatically bad每個人都有temperament,所以它不必然是壞的 — but on its own, 'She has a temperament' or 'a temperamental person'但單獨這樣說,「She has a temperament她脾氣不太好」或「a temperamental person一個情緒化的人」 usually hints at a difficult, moody one, especially about artists and performers通常暗示的是難搞、情緒起伏大的那種,尤其常用在藝術家和表演者身上。 You also meet fixed phrases你也會遇到固定用法: 'be suited by temperament to something' means your nature fits the work「be suited by temperament to something天性適合做某件事」,意思是你的性情適合這份工作。
Note the id given for this word is word_temperament_0_1.
Note the id given for this word順帶一提,這個字被標記的id is word_temperament_0_1是word_temperament_0_1。
組成From Latin temperamentum, a proper mixing, from temperare "to mix". This comes from the old medical idea that your nature depended on how four fluids in your body were mixed together — a good mix gave a good temperament.
原始詞典資料6 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。
temperamentnoun/ˈtɛm.pə.ɹə.mənt/
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A person's usual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting.
- President Taft did not have the temperament either to dominate or to work with his Congress.
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A tendency to become irritable or angry.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicThe altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key.
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human-sciencespsychologysciencesIndividual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.
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obsoleteA moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions.
- If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascribe to the soule […]
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obsoleteAny state or condition as determined by the proportion of its ingredients or the manner in which they are mixed; consistence, composition; mixture.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。