- 1nC2/səˈfɪstɪkeɪt/老練世故的人
正式A person who knows the wider world well and has refined taste in things like art, food, clothes, music or travel, and who is comfortable among people who care about such things.
示範例句 · Example
At sixteen she thought black coffee and a long coat made her a sophisticate.
逐字在十六歲時，她以為黑咖啡和一件長大衣讓她成為一個老練世故的人。
This noun names the person, in one word, that the adjective sophisticated describes. It carries two things at once: knowing how the world works, and knowing what is good. Writers reach for it when they want to place someone socially in a single stroke — a city sophisticate, a pair of sophisticates. The tone is usually a little dry. Called a sophisticate, a person is being admired and gently watched at the same time, because the word remembers that this polish was learned, not born. It is a written word much more than a spoken one.
這個名詞用一個字說出形容詞 sophisticated 在講的那種人。它同時裝了兩件事：懂世界怎麼運作，以及懂什麼是好東西。作者用這個字，通常是要一筆就把人放到某個社會位置上，例如 a city sophisticate。語氣多半有點乾。說一個人是 sophisticate，是在欣賞他，同時也帶著一點打量——因為這個字記得這份精緻是學來的，不是天生的。它比較常出現在文字裡，口語很少用。
常見搭配
a city sophisticate
都市裡見過世面的人
someone whose taste and manners come from city life
The novel is narrated by a city sophisticate who is bored by everything.
play the sophisticate
裝出一副見多識廣的樣子
to act as if you are worldly and refined
He played the sophisticate all evening and then got lost on the way home.
a sophisticate about something
某個領域的行家
someone with refined knowledge of one particular thing
She is no snob, but she is a sophisticate about coffee.
意思相近
cosmopolitanconnoisseuraestheteworldling
意思相反
core核心畫面
Picture something that arrives pure and simple, and then somebody works on it. A hand mixes another substance into the jar. The jar looks the same, but what is inside is no longer only what it was. That single act — something added, the plain original covered over — runs through the whole word. Turn it one way and it is cheating: cheap leaves in the good tea, half a sentence quoted so it points somewhere else. Turn it the other way and it is craft: layers added, rough edges taken off, fine distinctions built in. And a person can be worked on in exactly the same way, until the plainness is gone and what is left knows how the world runs.
From the word’s history
From Medieval Latin sophisticare, to disguise, to tamper with, to trick using words, from Latin sophisticus and Greek sophistes. The tampering is the original meaning; the modern admiring sense of polish grew out of it.
來自中世紀拉丁文 sophisticāre：偽裝、動手腳、用言語耍花招；再往上是拉丁文 sophisticus 與希臘文 sophistēs（辯士）。動手腳才是原意，今天那個帶著讚賞的「精緻」是從它長出來的。
Wiktionary entry for sophisticate, etymology_text supplied in this evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1124796326)
意思相近
cosmopolitanconnoisseuraestheteworldling
意思相反
原始詞典資料12 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。
sophisticateverb/səˈfɪstɪkeɪt/
- 1
To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.
- The party to which Mrs. Berlinton was the loadſtone, was far more attractive to the diſciples of nature, though leſs ſedulouſly ſought by thoſe whom the manners and maxims of the common world had ſophiſticated.
- [T]hey were not the spoiled children of affectation and refinement, but a bold, vigorous, independent race of thinkers, with prodigious strength and energy, with none but natural grace, and heartfelt unobtrusive delicacy. They were not at all sophisticated.
- 2
To make (something) more sophisticated (“complex, developed, or refined”); to develop, to refine.
- 3
To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize.
- 4
To alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention to deceive; to adulterate; (generally) to corrupt or deceive (someone, their thinking, etc.).
- How be it, it were harde to construe this lecture; Sophisticatid craftely is many a confecture; […]
- For there are diuers motiues, drawing men to fauour mightily thoſe opinions wherein their perſwaſions are but weakely ſetled: and if the paſſions of the minde be ſtrong, they eaſily ſophiſticate the vnderſtanding, they make it apt to beeleeue vpon very ſclender warrant and to imagine infallible truth where ſcarce any probable ſhew appeareth.
- 5
To change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way.
- The heavy hand of the high Thunderer Shall light on thee; and thou I doubt ſhalt be His Furies object, and ſhalt teſtifie By thine infamous lifes accurſed ſtate, VVhat now thy ſhame-leſs lips ſophiſticate.
- His character and doctrines have received still greater injury from those who pretend to be his special disciples, and who have disfigured and sophisticated his actions and precepts from views of personal interest, so as to induce the unthinking part of mankind to throw off the whole system in disgust, and to pass sentence, as an impostor on the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that has ever been exhibited to man.
- 6
archaicTo apply an artificial technique to (something).
- [T]hey ſit in ſome ſun-ſhining place in a chamber or ſome other ſecret roome, where hauing a looking-glaſſe before them they ſophiſticate and dye their haire with the foreſaid drugs, […]
- 7
To practise sophistry (“the (deliberate) making of arguments that seem plausible but are fallacious or misleading”).
- The benevolence of her heart taught her, in this inſtance, to ſophiſticate.
- Yet [Joseph] Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine.
sophisticateadj詞源 1/səˈfɪstɪkeɪt/
- 1
Synonym of sophisticated (adjective).
- 2
Synonym of sophisticated (adjective).
- 3
obsoleteSynonym of sophisticated (adjective).
- So truth, while only one ſupply'd the ſtate, Grew ſcarce, and dear, and yet ſophiſticate.
- 4
obsoleteSynonym of sophisticated (adjective).
sophisticatenoun詞源 2/səˈfɪstɪkeɪt/
- 1
A person who is sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”), or who has sophisticated tastes.
- […] the soporific details of Porter's socially correct marriage of convenience to wealthy and somewhat enigmatic Linda, "a professional beauty." They evidently shared a taste for high social status and the elegant luxuries, high life and freedoms afforded by wealth. Linda and Cole are portrayed as the ultimate sophisticates but the viewer is never told the cause for their separation or why they married.
- Patrick Star: Because classy sophisticates like us should not stain our lips with cursing. SpongeBob SquarePants: Yea verily!
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