喜樂美語

The eyes' power to take the world in — and, by extension, both the act of seeing and the things that come into your eyes.

可以想成：眼睛把世界「收進來」的能力。從這個能力出發，sight 可以指這個能力本身（視力）、指「看見」這個動作的瞬間，也可以指被你眼睛收進來的那個東西（景象）。一切都繞著「眼睛與被看見的東西之間」這條線打轉。

From the word’s history

'Sight' is the noun built from the Old English verb seon 'to see' (Old English (ge)siht). At root it simply names what seeing produces — the faculty, the act, and the thing seen.

sight 是從古英語動詞 seon「看」變出來的名詞（古英語 (ge)siht）。也就是說，它從一開始就是在替「看」這件事命名——可以是看的能力、看的當下、或被看到的東西。後面那麼多用法，全都長在「看」這個動作上。

etymonline.com/word/sight; en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sight

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同家族的字

n複數 sights

v過去式 sighted過去分詞 sighted-ing sighting三單 sights

意思相反

blindness

原始詞典資料14 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。

sightnoun/saɪt/

  • 1

    The ability to see.

    • He is losing his sight and now can barely read.
    • Thy sight is young, / And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.
  • 2

    The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.

    • to gain sight of land
    • And when hee had spoken these things, while they beheld, hee was taken vp, and a cloud receiued him out of their sight.
  • 3

    Something seen.

    • He's a really remarkable man and it's very hard to get him in one's sights; […]
  • 4

    Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.

    • We went to London and saw all the sights – Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, and so on.
    • You really look a sight in that ridiculous costume!
  • 5

    A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.

  • 6

    A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.

    • the sight of a quadrant
    • their eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel
  • 7

    a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.

    • a sight of money
    • This is a darn sight better than what I'm used to at home!
  • 8

    In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoleteThe instrument of seeing; the eye.

    • Why cloude they not their ſights perpetually,
  • 10

    Mental view; opinion; judgment.

    • In their sight it was harmless.
    • a very heinous Sin in the Sight of God

sightverb/saɪt/

  • 1

    To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.

    • I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.
    • to sight land from a ship
  • 2

    To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.

    • Next a point of known elevation, preferably one of the triangulation stations, is sighted; the vertical angle is read and the horizontal distance is scaled from the point of the setup on the map to the point sighted.
  • 3

    To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.

    • to sight a rifle or a cannon
  • 4

    To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.

    • Jim braced the gun and sighted, tried to pull the trigger. Beside him a body collapsed, limp. It was Max. A shot had gone through his brain. Jim stared down at him, numb with horror.
    • So I sighted the deer with my .30—30 and fired at him. The bullet hit about ten yards below the deer. I realized that I had a problem with the gun so I aimed about ten yards above the deer as he was running and he dropped dead on the [spot].

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