Picture someone moving slowly because they can see what could go wrong — testing the ice before putting weight on it. That carefulness is the word. Pass it to someone else and it becomes a warning; put it in a police officer's mouth and the warning becomes an official act with legal weight; and one old phrase describes throwing the whole thing away.
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原始詞典資料9 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。
cautionnoun/ˈkɔːʃ(ə)n/
- 1
Prudence when faced with, or when expecting to face, danger; care taken in order to avoid risk or harm.
- take caution
- have caution
- 2
A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided.
- The guideline expressed caution against excessive radiographic imaging.
- 3
Security; guaranty; bail.
- The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be vigorously prosecuted.
- 4
datedOne who draws attention or causes astonishment by their behaviour.
- Oh, that boy, he's a caution! He does make me laugh.
- ‘You are a caution,’ she said, when she came out. ‘I don't understand you.’
- 5
lawA formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases.
- 6
ball-gamesgameshobbiesA yellow card.
cautionverb/ˈkɔːʃ(ə)n/
- 1
To warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted.
- "Careful, Uwe," cautions my Venezuelan explorer friend, José Miguel Pérez, with a grim smile. "You're too big for us to carry back down."
- In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.”
- 2
lawTo read someone their formal legal rights as part of a lawful arrest.
- They're under arrest. Caution them, will you?
- 3
ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo give a yellow card.
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