Picture a pair of hands taking hold of something lively and keeping it under control — the word's old picture is handling a horse, guiding a strong, restless animal so it goes where you want. That image of getting your hands on something difficult and steering it sits under every use of manage: running a business (handling people and money), coping with a hard situation (keeping it under control), and pulling off something difficult against resistance (finally getting it done). Whether you manage a team, manage your time, or just manage to smile, you are taking hold of something that resists and bringing it under your hand.
From the word’s history
From Italian maneggiare 'to handle, control (especially a horse)', ultimately from Latin manus 'hand'. The hand that takes hold of and steers something is the root that ties together 'be in charge of' and 'succeed in doing despite difficulty'.
源自義大利語 maneggiare「操持、駕馭(尤指馬)」,最終來自拉丁語 manus「手」。那隻抓住東西、加以操控的手,正是把「掌管」和「克服困難辦成」串在一起的根。
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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。
manageverb/ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
To direct or be in charge of.
- Even though Jack is a novice, he manages his team with great success.
- Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group.
- 2
To handle or control (a situation, job).
- The government managed the inflation very poorly.
- 3
To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
- It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
- The moſt vnruly, and the boldeſt boy, That euer warlike weapons menaged […].
- 4
To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.
- He managed to climb the tower.
- Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
- 5
To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.
- She somehow managed to sit on the wet paint.
- Despite that, Swindon should have been level in stoppage time, but Mathieu Baudry somehow managed to put a free header over the crossbar from point-blank range.
- 6
To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
- It's a tough job, but I'll manage.
- Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
- 7
To manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc.
- "That's nice, dear!", she managed.
- 8
To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
- 9
obsoleteTo treat with care; to husband.
- [She] […]manages her last half-crown with care, And trudges to the Mall, on foot
- 10
obsoleteTo bring about; to contrive.
- in a town of war, Yet wild, the people's hearts brimful of fear, To manage private and domestic quarrel, In night, and on the court and guard of safety!
managenoun/ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
archaicThe act of managing or controlling something.
- the winged God himſelfe Came riding on a Lion rauenous, Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe […].
- Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
- 2
equestrianismhobbieshorsesManège.
- You must draw [the horse] in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c..
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