Someone who has been pulling on a rope, and lets go. The other end has not moved, and the thing they were pulling against is still there. What changed is that the pulling stopped. Resigned is the quiet that comes after.
可以想成一個人一直拉著一條繩子，然後手鬆開了。繩子另一頭沒有動，那件討厭的事還在那裡。變的只有一件事：他不拉了。resigned 講的就是鬆手之後的那份安靜。一種想法是：它跟動詞 resign（辭去、交出去）像是同一個畫面，把原本抓在手上的東西放掉。這只是幫助記憶的聯想，不是在說詞源。這個詞的兩個用法，就是這份安靜的裡面和外面。
原始詞典資料2 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。
resignedadj/ɹɪˈzaɪnd/
- 1
Characterized by resignation or acceptance.
- If we were having this conversation 10 or 15 years ago, Ezra, we would be having it in a diagnosing a futile illness sort of way. The way that political scientists talked about this problem, the way that activists or people talk about this problem, for decades before was in a very resigned tone. They’re like, this is just the way that it is. It’s over. We’ve lost this. This is going to be a problem for a really long time. That was the posture towards this entire problem.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。