Picture a row of ordinary cases and one that will not sit in the row — it has to be pulled out and treated on its own. That standing-outside is the whole word. English then leans two ways with it: usually the one pulled out is far better than the rest, but sometimes it is simply a case that hardly ever comes up.
原始詞典資料5 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。
exceptionaladj/ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
- 1
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
- What an exceptional meal!
- 2
educationForming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
- The origins of the conditions and disorders that exceptional learners have are not always well understood.
- 3
Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
- The quality of the beer was exceptional.
- 4
geometrymathematicssciencesCorresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
- an exceptional curve; an exceptional divisor
exceptionalnoun/ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
- 1
An exception, or something having an exceptional value
- Above and beyond all these exceptionals, by reason of divergencies from the norms of mental and of physical status, there are quite a number of moral defectives.
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