核心畫面

You can picture think as turning something over inside your mind: words and pictures move around in your head as you work an idea out, weigh it, and shape a view of what is true.

可以想成:腦子裡有東西在「轉動」——你把一個念頭、一個問題在心裡翻來覆去地擺弄,邊看邊掂量,慢慢拼出一個「事情大概是更多收起可以想成:腦子裡有東西在「轉動」——你把一個念頭、一個問題在心裡翻來覆去地擺弄,邊看邊掂量,慢慢拼出一個「事情大概是怎樣」的看法。think 的底層畫面比較像這個「在心裡運作」的動作,再從這裡長出「認為」「想起」「考慮」等各種用法。

原始詞典資料11 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。

thinkverb詞源 1/ˈθɪŋk/

  • 1

    To ponder, to go over in one's mind.

    • Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.
    • Had we but world enough and time / This coyness, lady, were no crime. / We would sit down, and think which way / To walk, and pass our long love's day.
  • 2

    To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.

    • "I should phone my mother," I thought.
    • So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • 3

    To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.

    • I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.
    • Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
  • 4

    To conceive of something or someone

    • I tend to think of her as rather ugly.
    • Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
  • 5

    To be of the opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.

    • I don't think it worth complaining about the leak in the roof, is it?
    • I hope you won’t think me stupid if I ask you what that means.
  • 6

    To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.

    • We should/would have thought she could've washed her hands before, at least.
  • 7

    To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).

    • The cupbearer shrugged up his shoulders in displeasure. "I thought to have lodged him in the solere chamber," said he[…]
    • “Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
  • 8

    To presume; to venture.

    • Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father.

thinknoun詞源 1/ˈθɪŋk/

  • 1

    An act of thinking; consideration (of something).

    • I'll have a think about that and let you know.

thinkverb詞源 2/ˈθɪŋk/

  • 1

    To seem, to appear.

    • And whanne syr launcelot sawe he myghte not ryde vp in to the montayne he there alyghte vnder an Appel tree […] And then he leid hym doune to slepe And thenne hym thoughte there came an old man afore hym the whiche sayd A launcelot of euylle feythe and poure byleue wherfor is thy wille tourned soo lyghtely toward thy dedely synne

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。