Picture a long climb that finally reaches the top. `Achievement` is what you can point at when you get there — not the wish, not the effort in the middle, but the finished thing standing at the end of your own work. The word can look at that moment in two ways: the thing you now have, or the reaching of it.
From the word’s history
From Old French achever "to finish, complete", from the phrase à chef (venir) "to come to a head", ultimately Latin ad caput. The noun achievement enters English in the late 1400s meaning "a finishing"; the countable "thing achieved" sense appears around the 1590s — which is why the modern word still splits along those two lines.
achievement 來自古法語 achever「完成、做完」，而 achever 出自片語 à chef (venir)，字面是「來到頭部、走到盡頭」（chef 就是拉丁語 caput「頭」）。名詞 achievement 在 1400 年代末進入英文時，意思是「完成這件事」；到 1590 年代左右才多出「完成的那個東西」。今天這個字的兩個意思，正好就是當年的兩層。
Online Etymology Dictionary, entries "achieve" / "achievement" (etymonline.com/word/achieve)
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原始詞典資料6 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。
achievementnoun/əˈt͡ʃiːv.mənt/
- 1
The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
- The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
- As to the type of seat preferred, the views were so varied that it was considered wisely that the ideal design was beyond achievement!
- 2
A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness.
- [The exploits] of the ancient saints ; they do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes.
- […]the English genius was effecting in science a revolution which will, to the end of time, be reckoned among the highest achievements of the human intellect.
- 3
governmentheraldryhobbiesAn escutcheon or ensign armorial; a full display or depiction of all the heraldic components to which the bearer of a coat of arms is entitled; (now especially) a funeral shield: the hatchment.
- The narrow Gothic windows were filled, not with glass that admitted the light, but with glass painted with the achievements of the family […].
- 4
video-gamesAn award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.
- Finishing the game does not give you a 100% score until you have unlocked all of the achievements.
- 5
grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsThe lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in an instant.
- […]distinctions among states of affairs are reflected to a striking degree in distinctions among Aktionsart types. That is, situations are expressed by state verbs or predicates, events by achievement verbs or predicates, and actions by activity verbs or predicates.
- 6
human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceThe successful completion of a socially defined goal or task, highlighting individual or group accomplishment.
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