喜樂美語

Think of act as simply doing, and acting as the doing that is going on right now, inside a role that is not permanently yours. On a stage the role belongs to a character: for two hours you speak and move as someone else, and then the lights go down and you stop. Take that picture off the stage and the same shape turns up twice. Someone holds a job that is not theirs to keep, and hands it back when the usual person returns. Someone shows a feeling that is not theirs either, and drops it when nobody is watching.

可以想成：acting 是「正在扮演一個不是你長期屬於的角色」。舞台上最清楚——你有兩個小時是別人，燈一暗就變回自己。把這個畫面搬下台，會看到同一個形狀出現兩次。一次在職位上：這個位子暫時給你坐，原本的人回來你就交還。一次在情緒上：這個表情是擺出來的，沒人看的時候就收起來。三個用法都是「暫時頂著一個角色」。

From the word’s history

Acting is act + -ing. Act runs back through Middle English acte and Old French to Latin agō, 'to do, to drive'. The doing is the old part of the word; the -ing is what turns it into the doing that is under way.

「acting」是 act 加上 -ing。act 經由中古英文 acte、古法文，一路回到拉丁文的 agō，意思是「做、推動」。「做」是這個字最老的核心，-ing 則把它變成「正在做的那件事」。

Wiktionary etymology tree supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:434067384): PIE *h₂eǵ- > Latin agō > Old French > Middle English acte > English act + -ing.

Two branches

扮演一個角色

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performing in plays and films · noun · B1

The work or the art of playing a character in a play, a film, or a television show.

演戲；演技

暫時頂著別人的職位

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acting manager/director/head teacher · adjective · B2

Acting manager, acting director, acting head teacher and so on: the person doing that important job for a short time, because the usual person is away, or because nobody has been chosen for the job yet.

代理（職務）

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

意思相近

performingperformancedramapretendingfakingputting it oninterimtemporarystand-in

意思相反

genuine feelingpermanent

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。

actingadj/ˈæk.tɪŋ/

  • 1

    Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.

    • The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.
    • The CEO is currently in a hospital. The CFO is acting CEO in the meantime.

actingnoun/ˈæk.tɪŋ/

  • 1

    archaicAn action or deed.

    • […] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;
    • […] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings, seeing it may not be of one farthing value to them to note what became of me.
  • 2

    lawSomething done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.

  • 3

    Pretending.

  • 4

    broadcastingdramadramaturgyThe occupation of an actor.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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