- 1vB2/ˈspeʃəlaɪz/專攻；專門做
To spend all or most of your study, work, or business on one particular subject or activity, instead of on many different ones.
示範例句 · Example
Dr. Lin specializes in children's teeth, so almost all of her patients are kids.
逐字林醫師專攻兒童的牙齒，所以她幾乎所有的病人都是小孩。
specialize 可以想成「把範圍縮小到一塊」——本來可以學很多、做很多，但你只挑一個主題或一種活動，幾乎всё都放在那上面，久了自然比別人熟。後面幾乎都接 in：specialize in animation（專攻動畫）、a shop that specializes in tea（專賣茶的店）。它跟「很喜歡」或「做得很好」講的不是同一件事，重點是「我做的就只有這一塊」。
常見搭配
specialize in something
專攻／專門做某個領域
to make one subject or activity nearly the only one you study or do
Aisha's mother specializes in Taiwanese history.
specialize in doing something
專門從事做某件事
to make one kind of activity nearly the only work you do
This small company specializes in making school bags.
a shop / restaurant specializes in something
某家店專賣某樣東西
a shop or restaurant sells mainly one kind of thing
The restaurant near the park specializes in vegetable dumplings.
hope to specialize later
希望以後專攻某一科
to plan to choose one narrow subject at some future time
Ren enjoys every science class, but he hopes to specialize later.
core核心畫面
One way to hold it: instead of spreading yourself thin over many things, you narrow down to one and pour everything into it.
同家族的字
過去式 specialized過去分詞 specialized-ing specializing三單 specializes
原始詞典資料9 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。
specializeverb/ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/
- 1
obsoleteTo make distinct or separate from what is common
- Firſt laſh the Great-ones ; but, if thou be wiſe, / In generall, and doe not ſpeciallize : / Yet, if thou doe, ſo wiſely let it be, / None may except but thoſe that faulty be.
- 2
rareTo make distinct or separate from what is common
- Our Sauiour specialising and nominating the places in which these false prophets should teach his presence to be.
- 3
To make distinct or separate from what is common
- He is at moſt a confuſed and wild Chriſtian, not ſpecialized by any form, but capable of all.
- 4
biologynatural-sciencesTo make distinct or separate from what is common
- In the lowest orders of being, we find these functions very much blended together, and several of them apparently performed by one simple apparatus ; but in proportion as we rise in the scale, we perceive that they are specialized, or separated from each other, and that a complicated set of organs is appropriated to each of them.
- Those who insist that a woman’s place is at home by divine decree need only to study the life of primitive man to find out how very human are some of our domestic customs, for they will then see this distinction, that while nature has specialized woman for child-bearing, it is society which has specialized her for housework.
- 5
To become distinct or separate from what is common, particularly
- These cells specialized for propagation, however they may originate, are accordingly distinguished by a special name, that of Spores of Sporules.
- 6
To become distinct or separate from what is common
- Also, to their honour be it said, they will not allow their scholars to specialize, and, with four hours of mathematics a week, even a Newton would not go up to Cambridge knowing much.
- 7
To become distinct or separate from what is common
- Firms... which have specialised in the manufacture of ‘heavies’...
- Blackhead: I might look you up myself one of these days. Do you specialise at all, like? Penny Guy: Yeah. Verbal abuse and colonic irrigation.
- 8
derogatoryTo become distinct or separate from what is common
- Watson specializes in adiposeness; none of his chorus beauties may be considered featherweights.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
To train (someone) in a specialty.
- "Kia, Honey, you got to help him to it," Bell Norton told the 16 year old girl she was "specializing" as part of the hospital's intensive care program for high risk babies and mothers.
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