Something standing right in your path, so you cannot miss it. The Latin root literally means 'in the way / meeting you head-on' — when a thing is obvious, it is so much in front of you that it needs no explanation; you just see it. Every other use bends this same picture: feelings that show too , the choice everyone already sees coming, the sensible move that is staring you in the face.
From the word’s history
From Latin 'obvius' = 'in the way, meeting head-on', from 'ob viam' (in the way / against the road). What lies right in your path is what you cannot help noticing.
來自拉丁文 obvius，意思是「擋在路上、迎面相遇」，由 ob viam（在路上、對著路）組成。正好橫在你路上的東西，就是你想避也避不開、一定會注意到的東西。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com): obvious < Latin obvius 'in the way' < ob viam
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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
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obviousadj/ˈɑb.vi.əs/
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Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
- During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on.
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