會思考的人
這一組都在講「人」,差別只在這個思考被放大到什麼程度:一種性格、一種被記住的成就,或是被形容詞指定的一種腦袋。
noun · B2
Someone who spends a lot of time turning things over in their mind before acting or speaking.
愛想事情的人
Picture someone who stays with a question after everyone else has moved on — still turning it over, saying nothing yet. Give that habit a lifetime and a subject and you get the famous thinker; give it an adjective and you get a type of mind; and in joking speech the same word can slide onto the brain doing the work, or onto the question that stopped everyone.
Wiktionary gives thinker as Middle English thinkere, equivalent to think + -er, and lists the same build in Dutch denker, German Denker and Danish tænker. The word is simply 'the one that thinks', which is why it can stretch from a philosopher to a brain to a hard question.
本批資料的 Wiktionary 條目把 thinker 記為中古英語 thinkere,也就是 think 加上 -er,並列出荷蘭文 denker、德文 Denker、丹麥文 tænker 這些構造完全一樣的同源詞。字面就是「會思考的那一個」。正因為字面這麼寬,它才伸得到哲學家、腦袋、難題這些不同的地方。
Wiktionary entry 'thinker' (noun), etymology_text supplied in this packet: 'From Middle English thinkere, equivalent to think + -er. Compare West Frisian tinker, Dutch denker, German Denker, Danish tænker, Swedish tänkare.' (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:739585200)
Two branches
會思考的人
這一組都在講「人」,差別只在這個思考被放大到什麼程度:一種性格、一種被記住的成就,或是被形容詞指定的一種腦袋。
noun · B2
Someone who spends a lot of time turning things over in their mind before acting or speaking.
愛想事情的人
俚語:想事情的器官,和讓人卡住的題目
同一個字不再指人,而是滑到旁邊兩樣東西上:一個是做這件事的器官,一個是逼你做這件事的題目。兩個都是口語玩笑,資料標為 slang。
noun · C1
Your brain or your mind, said in a playful, informal way.
腦袋