喜樂美語

You can picture exclusive as a door held open for only one person or group, while everyone else is shut outside. Whatever gets 'shut out' — other people, other options, extra costs — is what each meaning turns on.

可以想成一扇只為某一個人或一群人開著的門，其他人全被關在門外。exclusive 的每個意思都繞著「把誰、把什麼關在外面」在轉：擋掉的可能是別人、是其他選項，也可能是沒算進去的費用。

From the word’s history

From Latin excludere 'to shut out', from ex- 'out' + claudere 'to close, shut'. The word is literally about shutting others out — exactly the modern core: keep it for one side, shut the rest out.

來自拉丁文 excludere「關在外面」，由 ex-（出去）＋ claudere（關、閉）組成。字面就是「把人關到門外」，正好就是今天 exclusive 的核心——只給一方，其餘全擋掉。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com/word/exclusive, /word/exclude)

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

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複數 exclusives

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原始詞典資料10 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。

exclusiveadj/ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/

  • 1

    Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.

  • 2

    Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only.

  • 3

    A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of social status, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.

    • Exclusive clubs tend to serve exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.
  • 4

    Exclusionary.

  • 5

    Whole, undivided, entire.

    • The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.
  • 6

    human-scienceslinguisticssciencesOf or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.

    • The pronoun in "We're going to a party later, but you aren't invited" is an exclusive "we".
  • 7

    Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.

    • They decided to no longer be exclusive.

exclusivenoun/ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/

  • 1

    Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.

    • The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially disastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature.
  • 2

    A member of a group who excludes others from their society.

    • The exclusives at the English Universities apply the term CAD to all non-members.
  • 3

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.

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。