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In everyday English, a yogi is someone who knows yoga deeply and usually teaches it — the person at the front of the class who has for many years. But the word is older and larger than that.
In everyday English在日常英文裡 a yogi is someone who knows yoga deeply and usually teaches ityogi 是指一個深諳瑜伽而且通常會教瑜伽的人 the person at the front of the class who has practised for many years就是站在教室前面、已經練了很多年的那個人 But the word is older and larger than that不過這個字其實更古老、意思也更大
In India, a yogi is a person who follows yoga as a spiritual path: someone who trains the body and the mind for years to reach a calm, clear state, sometimes living apart from ordinary life. So the word can point to a fitness teacher in a city studio or to a holy man in the mountains, and only the sentence tells you which.
In India在印度 a yogi is a person who follows yoga as a spiritual pathyogi 是指把瑜伽當成一種靈修之路的人 someone who trains the body and the mind for years to reach a calm, clear state是花好幾年鍛鍊身心以達到一種平靜、清明狀態的人 sometimes living apart from ordinary life有時候會過著離群索居的生活 So the word can point to a fitness teacher in a city studio or to a holy man in the mountains所以這個字可以指城市健身房裡的教練也可以指山裡的修行人 and only the sentence tells you which要看句子才知道是哪一種
English speakers also use it a little for anyone who seems unusually calm and wise.
English speakers also use it a little playfully for anyone who seems unusually calm and wise英語使用者有時也會半開玩笑地用這個字形容特別冷靜、有智慧的人
The plural is yogis. A woman may be called a yogi, though the form yogini also exists for a woman.
The plural is yogis複數是 yogis A woman may be called a yogi女性也可以被稱作 yogi though the form yogini also exists for a woman不過也有專門給女性用的 yogini 這個字
Be careful of one thing: many people in Taiwan first meet this word as the name of a cartoon bear, Yogi Bear, which has nothing to do with yoga.
Be careful of one thing要小心一件事 many people in Taiwan first meet this word as the name of a cartoon bear很多台灣人最先認識這個字是因為一隻卡通熊 Yogi Bear叫 Yogi Bear which has nothing to do with yoga但牠跟瑜伽一點關係都沒有
組成From Hindi yogī, from Sanskrit yogin. Underneath is the root yuj, meaning "to join, to yoke together" — the same idea inside the word yoga, which is about joining body and mind. That root goes all the way back to a very old ancestor word that also gave English yoke.
原始詞典資料5 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。
yoginoun詞源 1/ˈjəʊɡi/
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A devotee or adherent of yoga.
- To this day, yogins find that these disciplines, which have measurable physical and neurological effects, evoke a sense of calm, harmony and equanimity that is comparable to the effect of music.
- There is a special healthy menu, and the yogis can all eat together if they choose, but there's none of the birdseed-and-bulgur-wheat diet of a typical retreat.
yogiverb詞源 1/ˈjəʊɡi/
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informalTo turn (someone) into a yogi; to lead into practicing yoga.
- You do not even need to be psychoanalyzed, Rolfed, estered, altered, gelded, neutered, spayed, fixed, Mooned, acupunctured, meditated, Zenned, massaged, Cayced, yogied, New Aged, astrocharted, holisticized, computerized, megatrended, therapized, androgynized, evangelized, converted, or even, last and least, to be reborn.
- I meet hundreds of people each year who have been New Thoughted, Mind Scienced, Eckankared, Rosicrucianed, l Amed, White Brotherhooded, Scientologied and, yes, even yogied — to the point of mental numbness.
yogiverb詞源 2/ˈjoʊɡi/
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To persuade someone to give you food or other favors without actually begging.
- Ready to do some hiking now that we are through yogi-ing? I asked, grinning at Map Man. The hikers looked up at me quizzically, but Map Man knew yogi-ing meant the good natured way thru-hikers ask for food without actually begging.
- Late in the afternoon, I came to a shady spot where there was a picnic table—a rare luxury on the trail. As I approached, I saw that there was a peach on top of the table and beneath it a note. Cheryl! We yogied this from day hikers for you. Enjoy! Sam and Helen
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。