You can picture something carried all the way to completion — the practice put in, the thing fully done, nothing left half-finished. From that one idea of 'brought to full completion' the word leans two ways: a person who has done so much skill-building that their ability is now finished and polished, and a fact that has been so fully carried out that it is settled and can't be undone.

可以想成一件事被一路做到「徹底完成」——該下的功夫下足了、整件事走到底了、沒有半途而廢的部分。從這個「做到圓滿完成」的核心,這個字朝兩邊延伸:一個人把技藝磨練到爐火純青、能力已經「練成」了;以及一件事已經徹底做成、塵埃落定、再也改不了。

From the word’s history

From accomplish 'to complete, carry out fully', via Old French acomplir from Latin complere 'to fill up, complete'. Both modern senses sit on that root idea of something fully carried through.

來自 accomplish「完成、徹底做成」,經古法語 acomplir,源自拉丁文 complere「填滿、使完整」。現代這兩個意思都立在「某件事被徹底做到底」這個字根上。

Oxford English Dictionary / etymonline (accomplish < L. complere)

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

accomplishedadj/əˈkɑm.plɪʃt/

  • 1

    Completed; effected; established.

    • an accomplished fact
    • When he described the settlers' dominance as accomplished, he meant that it was a fait accompli.
  • 2

    Having many accomplishments, often as a result of study or training.

    • an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain
    • Daughter of God and Man, accompliſht Eve,
  • 3

    Showing skill and artistry.

    • an accomplished first novel
    • "Oh! yes—the handsomest young lady that ever was seen; and so accomplished!—She plays and sings all day long. In the next room is a new instrument just come down for her—a present from my master; she comes here to-morrow with him."

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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