核心畫面
You can picture 'thought' as whatever your mind produces and holds: it is 'think' caught and kept. Sometimes it is a single piece — one idea that pops up. Sometimes it is the whole working of the mind, or the care and attention you pour into something. The same word covers the product (an idea), the activity (thinking), and the caring behind it.
可以想成：thought 就是「心智做出來、留在腦中的東西」——它是 think（思考）被抓住、留下來的結果。有時是…更多收起
可以想成：thought 就是「心智做出來、留在腦中的東西」——它是 think（思考）被抓住、留下來的結果。有時是一小塊：腦中冒出的一個念頭；有時是整台機器在運轉：思考本身、思維方式；有時是你為某件事投進去的用心與在意。同一個字，既是「想出來的東西」，也是「想這個動作」，還是動作背後的那份心。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。
thoughtnoun/θɔt/
- 1
A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
- The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- I hate the thought of going back to work Monday morning.
- 2
The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
- Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.
- 3
A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
- Traditional eastern thought differs markedly from that of the west.
- 4
dialectalAnxiety, distress.
- Which of you by taking thought, can adde one cubite vnto his ſtature?
- 5
The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation.
- After much thought, I have decided to stay.
- 6
A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot.
- 'Bide the night at Heriotside,' says he. 'It's a thought out of your way, but it's a comfortable bit.'
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 Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。