喜樂美語

A useful way to hold 'discipline': it is the training that shapes how someone acts — you teach and drill a person (or yourself) until following the rules becomes steady and automatic. Everything else is that same shaping seen from a different angle.

可以想成一種「把人塑形」的訓練：透過反覆教導與練習，讓一個人（或你自己）慢慢學會按規矩行動，直到守規矩變成穩定、自然的習慣。discipline 其他的意思，其實都是同一個「塑形」動作換個角度看。

From the word’s history

From Latin disciplina 'instruction, training', from discipulus 'learner, pupil' (the same root behind 'disciple'). At heart the word is about a learner being taught and trained — the punishment, self-control and field-of-study senses all grew out of that.

源自拉丁文 disciplina「教導、訓練」，來自 discipulus「學生、學習者」（也是 disciple 門徒的字根）。這個字骨子裡講的是「學習者被教、被練」——後來的懲戒、自制、學科等意思，都是從這個核心長出來的。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com/word/discipline)

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

同家族的字

n複數 disciplines

v過去式 disciplined過去分詞 disciplined-ing disciplining三單 disciplines

原始詞典資料14 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。

disciplinenoun/ˈdɪsɪplɪn/

  • 1

    A controlled behaviour; self-control.

    • The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.
  • 2

    A controlled behaviour; self-control.

    • The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline.
  • 3

    A controlled behaviour; self-control.

    • Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.
    • Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?
  • 4

    A controlled behaviour; self-control.

    • Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art.
  • 5

    A controlled behaviour; self-control.

  • 6

    A controlled behaviour; self-control.

    • giving her the discipline of the strap
  • 7

    CatholicismChristianityA controlled behaviour; self-control.

    • All she had done was give Teena a cilice, a barbed metal chain she was to tie around her thigh for two hours every day, and a discipline, a rope whip with knotted ends she was to use on her back when she prayed the Hail Mary.
  • 8

    A controlled behaviour; self-control.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.

    • Near-synonyms: specialty, speciality, specialism
    • academic disciplines
  • 10

    A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.

disciplineverb/ˈdɪsɪplɪn/

  • 1

    To train someone by instruction and practice.

  • 2

    To teach someone to obey authority.

  • 3

    To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.

  • 4

    To impose order on someone.

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。