You can picture historical as a stamp that says 'this really belongs to the past'. The base feeling is not 'about history class' but 'this actually existed back then' — a real person, a real event, something that genuinely happened before our time rather than being made up. From that one anchor — 'truly of the past' — the word spreads outward: to anything connected with times, to the academic study of those times, and to stories that borrow that real past as their setting.
From the word’s history
From Latin 'historia' (a learning or knowing by inquiry; an account of past events), via Greek 'historia'. So the word has always pointed at the recorded past — the things inquiry tells us really happened.
源自拉丁文 historia（透過探究得到的知識；對過去事件的記述），再上溯到希臘文 historia。所以這個字一直指向「被記錄下來的過去」——也就是探究告訴我們確實發生過的那些事。
etymonline.com/word/historical; etymonline.com/word/history
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料12 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。
historicaladj/hɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/
- 1
Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
- July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.
- The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.
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artartsliteratureOf, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
- There is no acknowledgment—because there is no understanding—that sometimes historical fiction departs from facts in order to reach for more abstract, thematic, or complexly intuitive truths that even the most diligently fact-checked histories and biographies can fail to illuminate.
- Hagiography, the historical genre which is the subject of this week's seminar, comprises narratives concerned with the saints and their achievements, especially the miracles which God has performed through them and on their behalf.
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
- Sith thou gaue to vs a floure most riall Redolent in cronicles with historicall syght.
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artartsliteratureOf, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
- But concerning some persons of your neighbourhood... their Confession [of Faith] is rather an opinion than a true and sincere earnestness, for all of them are not that which they boast and glory to be; there may be many honest hearts among them; but many of them are only historical and titular, and desire only to show themselves, and to be applauded ...
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsOf, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
- The historical present is often treated as a principal tense, but there are exceptions and sometimes both constructions appear in the same passage.
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obsoletebiologynatural-sciencesOf, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
- The Royal Historical Society
- The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
- The historical development of skill in foreshortening will be demonstrated in another section. Only the more perfect phases will be treated here.
- ...No studies have investigated the problem’s historic roots. Thus, this paper explores the perspective of “early insiders” through an historical analysis of autobiographies, biographies, and magazine articles written by and about early US newspaper reporters and editors.
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
- A certain ball which a noble Duchess gave at Brussels on the 15th of June in the above-named year is historical. All Brussels had been in a state of excitement about it, and I have heard from ladies who were in that town at the period, that the talk and interest of persons of their own sex regarding the ball was much greater even than in respect of the enemy in their front.
- EB: We live in a special time of awakening. This is a historical moment for Egypt DS: In which many see you as a kind of messiah. EB: I neither can nor want to be a savior.
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Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically"
- historical-political
historicalnoun/hɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/
- 1
A historical romance.
- However, as regular romance readers know, the romance novels that appear on the best-seller lists are not Harlequins at all, but rather historicals and contemporaries, which vary widely from the Harlequin pattern in style, plot, and character.
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