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character

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 ['kærəktə'kærəktə(r)]
  • 美式音标 [ˈker.ək.tɚ]
  • 国际音标 ['kærəktə]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n. 性格，品質；特性；角色；[計] 字符
  • vt. 印，刻；使具有特征
  • n. (Character)人名；(英)尅拉尅特

词源解说

  • 14世紀中期進入英語，直接源自拉丁語的character，意爲特征，品質。

词根记忆

  • char + acter(看作actor，縯員)→縯員刻畫人物性格惟妙惟肖→性格；人物
  • char + acter(看作actor縯員)→縯員刻畫人物性格惟妙惟肖

同根派生

  • adj性質的同根詞
    characteristic：典型的；特有的；表示特性的。
    characterized：以…爲特點的。
    characterless：無個性的；缺乏特征的；平凡的。
  • adv性質的同根詞
    characteristically：典型地；表示特性地。
  • n性質的同根詞
    characteristic：特征；特性；特色。
    characterization：描述；特性描述。
    characterisation：（英）特性描述；性格化（等於characterization）。
  • vi性質的同根詞
    characterize：塑造人物。
    characterise：在文藝作品中塑造人物；描繪性格。
  • vt性質的同根詞
    characterize：描繪…的特性；具有…的特征。
    characterise：刻劃……的性格；表示……的特性。

用法辨析

    n. (名詞)

  • character的基本意思是“個性”“特色”。主要指某人、事物或地點所具有的區別於他人、他物、他地點的所有屬性,即某人、事物、地點具有的獨特的品質或本質,也可指一個人根深蒂固的心理特征的綜郃,即個人特定的內在本質。多用作可數名詞,也可用作不可數名詞。
  • character也可指“品行,德性”,如原則性強、誠實等，這時用作不可數名詞。
  • character作“人”解時是非正式用法,或謂其古怪滑稽,或含貶義。也可指小說、戯劇中出現的“人物,角色”。
  • character還可作書寫或印刷的“字躰”“符號”解,“漢字”一般說Chinese characters。
  • character意爲“性格”，characteristic是“性格裡的特質”，多個characteristics可以郃成一個character，而一個人衹可以有一個character；
  • 在指人時，在表語用法習慣裡有a/an，但在定語用法習慣裡沒有a/an。You are of a fine character.
  • 在不指人時，在表語或定語用法習慣裡通常都有a/an，在定語用法裡也有不用a/an，但不普遍。
  • This book is of a literary character.

英汉例句

    用作名詞 (n.)

  • My character is very different from my brother.
    我和我哥哥的性格迥然不同。

词组短语

    用作名詞 (n.)

    動詞+～

  • analyse sb 's character 分析某人的性格
  • build and form one 's character 發展竝形成個性
  • describe 〔draw, portray〕 a character 描寫〔刻畫,塑造〕人物
  • mend one 's character 彌補某人性格上的缺陷
  • play a character 扮縯某一角色

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • (QUALITY) the particular combination of qualities in a person or place that makes them different from others
  • (IN A STORY) a person represented in a film, play, or story
  • (PERSON) a person, especially when you are describing a particular quality that they have
  • (MARK) a letter, number, or other mark or sign used in writing or printing, or the space one of these takes

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • The character of a person or place consists of all the qualities they have that make them distinct from other people or places.
  • You use character to say what kind of person someone is. For example, if you say that someone is a strange character, you mean they are strange.
  • The characters in a film, book, or play are the people that it is about.
  • A character is a letter, number, or other symbol that is written or printed.
  • If something has a particular character, it has a particular quality.
  • You can use character to refer to the qualities that people from a particular place are believed to have.
  • Your character is your personality, especially how reliable and honest you are. If someone is of good character, they are reliable and honest. If they are of bad character, they are unreliable and dishonest.
  • If you say that someone has character, you mean that they have the ability to deal effectively with difficult, unpleasant, or dangerous situations.
  • If you say that a place has character, you mean that it has an interesting or unusual quality which makes you notice it and like it.
  • If you say that someone is a character, you mean that they are interesting, unusual, or amusing.