核心畫面

Picture something that light can actually reach your eye from — the mountain when the fog lifts, the stain on a white shirt. The word starts as a plain fact about eyes, then quietly raises the bar twice: first to 'clear enough that people notice', then to 'noticed by so many people that everyone knows the name'.

可以想成:一樣光線真的能從它那裡送進你眼睛的東西——霧散開之後的那座山、白襯衫上的那塊污漬。這個字一開始只是關於眼睛更多收起可以想成:一樣光線真的能從它那裡送進你眼睛的東西——霧散開之後的那座山、白襯衫上的那塊污漬。這個字一開始只是關於眼睛的事實,接著門檻悄悄提高兩次:先變成「清楚到會被注意到」,再變成「被夠多人看見,連名字都認得」。所以同一個字可以描述物理上看得見,也可以描述一個人有沒有知名度。

From the picture

明顯到會被注意

門檻往上抬一級:不只是「有可能看到」,而是大到、清楚到你想忽略也難——所以它也開始能形容看不見的東西,例如情緒或改善。

noticeable · adjective · B2

Big or clear enough to be noticed.

明顯的

Also in this word

able to be seen · adjective · B2

Able to be seen.

看得見的

原始詞典資料1 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。

visibleadj/ˈvɪzɪb(ə)l/

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    Able to be seen.

    • When the sun rises, the world becomes visible.
    • It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.

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