喜樂美語

Think of someone standing to one side of a thing — a film, a plan, a person — and saying out loud how good or bad they judge it to be. The weight of the word sits on judging publicly, whether that is their paid job or just their opinion.

可以想成一個站在作品或做法旁邊的人：他不是做那件事的人，而是看完、聽完之後開口說「這個好在哪、差在哪」。這個詞的重量都落在「把自己的判斷公開講出來」上——講的人可能是靠這行吃飯的專業人士，也可能只是一個不同意你的旁人。

Two branches

公開說出好壞的人

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critic (professional reviewer) · noun · B1

someone whose job is to say how good or bad films, books, music, art, plays, or restaurants are, usually by writing about them in a newspaper or magazine, or talking about them on television or radio.

評論家

只活在 armchair critic 裡

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armchair critic · noun · B2

someone who says what other people are doing wrong, even though they have never done that thing themselves. This meaning only appears in the fixed phrase 'armchair critic'.

光說不練的人

同家族的字

複數 critics

原始詞典資料7 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。

criticnoun/ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/

  • 1

    A person who appraises the works of others.

    • Following its publication, the novel received widespread acclaim from literary critics.
    • The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad.
  • 2

    A specialist in judging works of art.

  • 3

    One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.

    • When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
  • 4

    An opponent.

criticverb/ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo criticise.

    • 1607, Antony Brewer (attributed), Lingua, or the Combat of the Five Senses for Superiority Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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