喜樂美語

Picture someone running a household with only so much money, food and space, and deciding where each bit goes so that nothing runs out and nothing is wasted. That one picture opens in two directions: doing a thing in that careful, nothing-wasted way (pack economically, live economically), and talking about the whole money-and-resources side of a place (economically, the town is struggling). One is the habit, the other is the subject area — both can be thought of as looking at life through the question 'how are the limited resources being handled?'

可以想成一個人在管一個家：錢就這麼多、食物就這麼多、空間就這麼小，他得決定每一份要放到哪裡，才不會不夠用，也不會浪費掉。這個畫面往兩邊打開：一邊是「用這種捨不得浪費的方式去做某件事」（economically packed 打包得很省空間），另一邊是「就資源和金錢這一面來看」（Economically, the town is struggling 這個鎮在經濟上很吃力）。一個是習慣，一個是討論的層面，但都可以想成在問同一句話：手上有限的東西，是怎麼被安排的？

From the word’s history

English economy comes from Greek oikonomia 'household management, thrift' (oikos 'house' + nemein 'manage'). It meant 'household management' in the 1530s, 'frugality, judicious use of resources' by the 1660s, and 'the wealth and resources of a country' from the 1650s on. So the thrift sense and the national-economy sense are the same household picture, once small and once very large.

economy 來自希臘文 oikonomia，意思是「管家、持家的節省」（oikos 房子 ＋ nemein 管理）。1530 年代英文裡指「管理家務」，到 1660 年代有了「節省、把資源用在刀口上」，而 1650 年代之後又擴大成「一個國家的財富與資源」。所以「省著用」和「整個國家的經濟」其實是同一張持家的圖，一張小、一張放到很大。

Etymonline, 'economy' (https://www.etymonline.com/word/economy)

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比較級 more economically最高級 most economically

用法接近

carefullyeconomically speakingefficientlyin economic terms

意思相反

wastefullyextravagantly

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

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economicallyadv/ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪ.kli/

  • 1

    mannerIn an economical manner; not wastefully; not extravagantly.

  • 2

    From the perspective of economics or an economy.

    • Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.
    • More than 40% of Dominicans are economically vulnerable and are at risk of falling into poverty due to climate-related impacts and economic crises, according to the World Bank.
  • 3

    lifestylereligiontheologyAccording to divine economy.

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