You can picture a 'scheme' as a laid-out arrangement — a figure or plan with all the parts set in their places, like a diagram you draw before you act. Everything else the word does grows from that laid-out shape.
From the word’s history
From Greek skhema 'a shape, figure, form, appearance', via Latin schema. It first meant a figure or form, then a diagram showing how parts sit together, then a plan of action — and only later did the 'sly, self-serving plan' shading creep in.
來自希臘文 skhema（形狀、圖形、樣式、外觀），經拉丁文 schema 進入英語。它先指一個形/圖，再指顯示各部分如何配置的圖式，接著才變成「行動的計畫」，最後才染上「暗中算計」那層貶義。
etymonline.com/word/scheme (Online Etymology Dictionary)
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原始詞典資料13 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。
Schemename/skiːm/
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A programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.
schemenoun/skiːm/
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obsoleteAn artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
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astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismA representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
- a blue case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity
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A systematic plan of future action.
- The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
- Originally the opening had doubtless marked the projection of another road, but the scheme had come to nothing.
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A plot or secret, devious plan.
- Her brain is continually fermenting new schemes.
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An orderly combination of related parts.
- the appearance and outward scheme of things
- such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity
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A chart or diagram of a system or object.
- April 29, 1694, Robert South, A Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey to draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France
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mathematicssciencesA mathematical structure that generalizes the notion of an algebraic variety in several ways, such as taking account of multiplicities and allowing "varieties" defined over any commutative ring. Formally, a locally ringed space that admits a covering by open sets, each of which is isomorphic to an affine scheme (i.e. the spectrum of some commutative ring).
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A council housing estate.
- It was all too dear. They all just put their prices up because it was out in the scheme.
- “You can’t really say to the kids in the schemes [Scottish council estates]^([sic]): don’t do drugs, they’ll wreck your life, you’ll never get a job or a house or buy nice things.”
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
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A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
schemeverb/skiːm/
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To plot, or contrive a plan; to maneuver.
- Laura snatches coins from inside a truck to make a telephone call, scrounges shoes and clothes for them at a municipal beach, schemes to get a room key so she and Howie can sleep overnight in the Starlight Motel, steals a Jeepster from a deputy sheriff who's trying to arrest them.
- The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.
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To plan; to contrive; to maneuver.
- He schemed a plot. He made use of the hotel's stationery to write a letter.
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