Leaning your whole weight on someone or something, trusting it to hold you — even though you can't prove in advance that it will.

可以想成:你把整個人的重量靠上去,相信對方或某樣東西會撐住你,即使你事先沒辦法證明它一定撐得住。faith 的核心畫面可以想像成這種「沒有保證、卻仍然把重量交出去」的信靠。從信任一個人、到信仰神、再到「守不守信」,都是同一份「把自己交託出去、相信對方會接住」的心。

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原始詞典資料13 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。

Faithname

  • 1

    A female given name from English.

    • "Now, I was called Faith after the cardinal virtue; and I like my name, though many people would think it too Puritan; that was according to our gentle mother's pious desire.
    • “Faith.” “No name that—no name that! I can’t stomach such a name. Got any other?” “No, sir.” “Don’t like the name, don’t like it. There’s no smeddum to it. Besides, it makes me think of my Aunt Jinny. She called her three girls Faith, Hope, and Charity. Faith didn’t believe in anything—Hope was a born pessimist—and Charity was a miser.
  • 2

    A surname, also used as a stage name.

  • 3

    A place in the United States:

  • 4

    A place in the United States:

  • 5

    A place in the United States:

  • 6

    A place in the United States:

faithnoun/feɪθ/

  • 1

    A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.

    • The faithfulness of Old Faithful gives us faith in it.
    • I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.
  • 2

    A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.

    • I have faith that my prayers will be answered.
    • I have faith in the healing power of crystals.
  • 3

    A religious or spiritual belief system.

    • The Christian faith.
    • We seek justice for the Indo-European Folk Faith; what's wrong in our literature for that?
  • 4

    An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.

    • He acted in good faith to restore broken diplomatic ties after defeating the incumbent.
  • 5

    obsoleteCredibility or truth.

    • 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece the faith of the foregoing […] narrative

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

  • in faith
  • by my faith

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。