Picture the flat image a camera hands back to you — one moment of the world caught and held on paper or a screen, ready to look at again any time. Everything else the word does is either making that image or how you turn out inside it.
From the word’s history
From Greek phos 'light' + graphein 'to draw, write' — literally 'a drawing made with light', a word coined around 1839. The camera lets light itself draw the picture, which is exactly what a photo is.
希臘文 phos（光）加 graphein（畫、寫），字面就是「用光畫出來的東西」，1839 年前後才造出這個字。相機讓光自己把畫面畫下來——這正好就是照片的核心畫面。
etymonline; Greek phos 'light' + graphein 'to draw/write'; term coined ~1839 (J. Herschel)
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原始詞典資料4 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。
photographnoun/ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːf/
- 1
artshobbieslifestyleA picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
- The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.
- A photograph showing a column of tenodd cars with black registration plates moving along an empty highway on their way to Subotica, […]
photographverb/ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːf/
- 1
To take a photograph (of).
- He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
- The boy who made headlines when he was photographed hugging an officer during a 2014 protest against police brutality is missing after his family’s SUV plunged 100 feet off a coastal highway in California, officials said Wednesday.
- 2
To fix permanently in the memory etc.
- He is photographed on my mind.
- The scene and its surroundings were photographed on my memory.
- 3
To appear in a photograph.
- She photographs well. The camera loves her.
- He told me that he liked Dolls Kill just fine—its clothes photographed well and he always wore them to Coachella—but attending this event was basically work for him.
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