核心畫面
You can picture a thesis as a claim you put down on the table and then have to defend. You say 'I argue that X', and everything that comes after — the reasons, the examples, the chapters — is there to hold that one claim up. All three uses circle around that laid-down claim: it can be one sentence, or it can grow into a two-hundred-page book.
可以想成一句你把它擺到桌上、準備替它辯護的主張：你先清楚說出「我認為 X」，接下來的理由、例子、章節都是為了撐住那一…更多收起
可以想成一句你把它擺到桌上、準備替它辯護的主張：你先清楚說出「我認為 X」，接下來的理由、例子、章節都是為了撐住那一句話。thesis 的三個用法都繞著這句被立下來的主張轉——它可以短到只是一句話，也可以長成一本兩百頁的書。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。
thesisnoun/ˈθiːsɪs/
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Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
- I submit these nine theses to Wikipedia’s community and to the world. I do this, as Martin Luther said when he posted his famous 95 theses, “Out of love for the truth and the desire to elucidate it.” […] I am confident that every thesis stands on solid ground.
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Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
- I told them of the grave, becoming, and ſublime deportment they ſhould aſſume upon this myſtical occaſion, and read them two homilies and a theſis of my own compoſing, in order to prepare them.
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computercomputingengineeringSenses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
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human-scienceslogicmathematicsSenses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesSenses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
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entertainmenthuman-scienceslifestyleSenses relating to music and prosody.
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entertainmenthuman-scienceslifestyleSenses relating to music and prosody.
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。