idea

英 [a?'d??] 美[a?'di?]

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復數(shù):?ideas;

idea 主意，想法

來自拉丁語idea,想象，想法，想象中的上帝的模樣，來自PIE*weid,看，字母w脫落，詞源同video,evident.引申詞義看，幻想，現(xiàn)用于指主意，想法。

idea: idea: [16] Etymologically, an idea is the ‘look’ of something – it comes ultimately from the same source as produced the Greek verb ídein ‘see’. Greek idéā itself was used by Plato in the specialized sense ‘a(chǎn)rchetypal form of something’, which survives in the derived adjective ideal [17], but as far as the modern English noun is concerned, its sense ‘notion, mental conception’ developed (in Greek) via ‘look, appearance’, ‘image’, and ‘mental image’. Ideology [18] is a derivative, coined originally in French at the end of the 18th century.
=> ideology, idol
idea (n.): late 14c., "archetype of a thing in the mind of God; Platonic `idea,'" from Latin idea "idea," and in Platonic philosophy "archetype," from Greek idea "ideal prototype," literally "the look of a thing (as opposed to the reality); form; kind, sort, nature," from idein "to see," from PIE *wid-es-ya-, suffixed form of root *weid- "to see" (see vision). Sense of "result of thinking" first recorded 1640s.
Men of one idea, like a hen with one chicken, and that a duckling. [Thoreau, "Walden"]
Idée fixe (1836) is from French, literally "fixed idea."

2. They have only a vague idea of the amount of water available.: 他們只是大概知道可用水的總量。

3. Professor Baker is unacquainted with the idea of representative democracy.: 貝克教授并不熟悉“代議制民主”這一思想。

4. The police told me. It was a bombshell. I had no idea.: 是警察告訴我的。我很震驚，完全沒想到。

5. "I told you Preskel had no idea," remarked Kemp with some asperity.: “我告訴過你普雷斯克毫不知情的，”肯普頗為不耐煩地說道。