Think of a manner as the way a person does a thing, watched from outside: how they hand you the plate, how they say your name, how they hold themselves when others are in the room. Adding -ed makes the word say that this way of doing things is noticeable — the person carries a manner. From there, everything depends on one question: is that manner there for the people in the room, or for the look of it? Put well or bad in front and you are judging how the person treats others. Leave the word alone and you are saying the manner has taken over, and what you see is the doing rather than the person.

「manner」可以想成一個人做事的樣子,是從外面看得到的那一面:怎麼把盤子遞過來、怎麼叫你的名字、有人在場的時候怎麼撐著自己。後面加上 -ed,就變成「帶著某種做事樣子的」,也就是那個樣子明顯到讓人看見了。接下來全看一個問題:那個樣子是為了在場的人,還是為了讓人看。前面加 well 或 bad,評的是他怎麼對待別人。什麼都不加,意思就變成那個樣子蓋過了人本身,你看到的是動作,不是人。

From the word’s history

The word is manner plus -ed and goes back to Middle English manered, so its parts already say it: carrying a manner.

這個字是 manner(做事、待人的方式)加上 -ed 組成的,可以追到中古英語的 manered。字的組成本身就把核心說完了:帶著某種方式的。

Wiktionary entry for mannered (kaikki extract, supplied in packet): From Middle English manered; equivalent to manner + -ed.

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原始詞典資料1 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。

manneredadj

  • 1

    Having manners or (often excessive) mannerisms.

    • His upbringing had led him to act in an overly mannered way.
    • ill-mannered.

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