喜樂美語

A picture worth holding: something already exists, and you add to it so that it now holds more of the good stuff. Not making it bigger — making it denser, fuller, worth more per unit than it was before.

一樣東西本來就在那裡，你往裡面加了些什麼，於是它「含量」變高了。注意重點不是變大，而是變濃、變厚、變得更有內容——同樣一份土壤、同樣一段人生、同樣一杯牛奶，加了東西之後，每一份裡面「好東西」的比例都提高了。en-（使…）+ rich（富含）合起來就是「使某物富含某物」，而 rich 在英文裡本來就不只指錢，也指「含量高」（rich soil 肥沃的土、rich in vitamins 富含維他命）。抓住這一點，這個字的三種用法就串在一起了。

From the word’s history

Middle English enrichen, from Old French enrichir; by surface analysis simply en- ("to make") + rich. The core has never moved: to make something rich in something.

這個字的構造直接寫在臉上：en-（使）+ rich（富有、含量高），古法語 enrichir 就是這樣組起來的。所以與其記三個中文翻譯，不如記「使…變得富含」這一件事——差別只在於「富含什麼」：養分、金錢，還是可裂變的鈾。

Wiktionary, "enrich" (Middle English enrichen ← Anglo-Norman enrichir / Old French enrichier; surface analysis en- + rich)

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過去式 enriched過去分詞 enriched-ing enriching三單 enriches

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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。

enrichverb/ɪnˈɹɪt͡ʃ/

  • 1

    To enhance.

  • 2

    To make (someone or something) rich or richer.

    • Hobbies enrich lives.
    • The choke in a car engine enriches the fuel mixture.
  • 3

    To adorn, ornate more richly.

  • 4

    To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.

    • European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
  • 5

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsTo increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.

    • The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says US strikes on Iran fell short of causing total damage to its nuclear program and that Tehran could restart enriching uranium “in a matter of months,” contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims the US set Tehran’s ambitions back by decades.
  • 6

    To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.

  • 7

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.

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。