Picture something in your hands right now - it is yours to hold, and nobody else can use it while you have it. That is possession: not a feeling, not a right on paper, but the plain fact of holding. Once you see it as holding rather than owning, the strange uses fall into place - a team holds the ball, a country holds an island, and in old stories a spirit holds a person.
From the word’s history
From Latin possidere 'to have and hold, hold in one's control, be master of', probably from potis 'having power, able' + sedere 'to sit' - originally a legal term used about land, i.e. sitting on a piece of ground as its master. From the 1530s English also used it of a spirit having complete power over someone.
來自拉丁文 possidere（握住、掌控、當主人），一般認為由 potis（有力量的）加 sedere（坐）組成，最早是講土地的法律用語——像是坐在一塊地上、當它的主人。這條線把幾個看似無關的意思串起來了：坐著佔住一塊地就是「屬地」，而 1530 年代開始，英文也用它講某種力量完全佔住一個人，也就是中文的「附身」。
Etymonline, 'possess' (etymonline.com/word/possess)
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原始詞典資料10 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。
possessionnoun/pəˈzɛʃn̩/
- 1
A control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
- Once complete, guide rails will be installed inside the tunnels ready for the box jack itself - which NR intends to push into place during a nine-day engineering possession in September, following a trial push in late August. [...] A small number of weekday and weekend possessions will also be required on June 20-21, September 5-6, and between December 19-March 2021, [...]
- 2
Something that is owned.
- The car quickly became his most prized possession.
- I would gladly give all of my worldly possessions just to be able to do that.
- 3
An ownership; a taking, a holding, keeping something as one's own.
- The car is in my possession.
- I'm in possession of the car.
- 4
A territory under the rule of another country.
- Réunion is the largest of France's overseas possessions.
- 5
The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
- Back then, people with psychiatric disorders were sometimes thought to be victims of demonic possession.
- How long hath this possession held the man?
- 6
The condition of being under the control of strong emotion or madness.
- 7
hobbieslifestylesportsA control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
- The scoreboard shows a little football symbol next to the name of the team that has possession.
- Their first half was marred by the entire side playing too deep, completely unable to build up any form of decent possession once the ball left their bewildered defence.
- 8
A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- 2019 In the mix: Who's pushing for selection for round eight? Australian Football League, 7 May 2019. Accessed 7 May 2019. Defender Colin O'Riordan had 41 possessions in the NEAFL last week to continue his outstanding form, while Ryan Clarke had 47 in the Swans' big loss to Brisbane.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
- Some languages distinguish between a construction like 'my car', which shows alienable possession — the car could become someone else's — and one like 'my foot', which has inalienable possession — my foot will always be mine.
possessionverb/pəˈzɛʃn̩/
- 1
obsoleteTo invest with property.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。