A useful way to hold it: instead of looking at the whole lump, you take it apart piece by piece to see what is inside and how the pieces fit — the mind (or the lab) that breaks a thing down before judging it.
From the word’s history
Via French analytique from Greek analusis, 'a loosening up, undoing' (ana- 'up' + luein 'to loosen') — the root picture is untying a knot into separate strands, which is still what an analytical mind or an analytical test does.
這個字和 analysis 同源，追到希臘文 analusis，意思是「鬆開、解開」（ana- 向上 + luein 解開）。原始畫面是把一個打結的東西解開成一條一條的線。這正好就是現代 analytical 在做的事：不管是腦袋裡拆問題，還是實驗室裡拆成分，都是把纏在一起的東西鬆開來看清楚。
Entry origin note (French analytique; see analysis) plus the standard Greek etymon analusis 'a loosening', as recorded in Merriam-Webster and the Online Etymology Dictionary.
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原始詞典資料2 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。
analyticaladj/ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/
- 1
Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts
- an analytical experiment
- 2
Using analytic reasoning as opposed to synthetic.
- an analytical mind
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。