You can picture strategy as a general standing over a map of the battlefield, deciding before the fighting starts where each army will move so the whole campaign works out. The word still carries that high-up, before-the-action planning: not the small move you make in the moment, but the big shape you lay out in advance to win.

可以把 strategy 想成一位將軍站在戰場地圖前,在開打之前就先決定哪一支軍隊往哪裡走,好讓整場戰役順利收場。這個字到今天都還帶著那種「居高臨下、事前布局」的味道:重點不是當下的一個小動作,而是你為了贏,事先擺出來的那盤大棋。

From the word’s history

From Greek 'stratēgia', the office or art of the 'stratēgos' (army leader / general) — literally generalship. The military planning sense is the original; the modern 'plan to reach any goal' sense grew out of it.

源自希臘文 'stratēgia',意思是「將領之職、將領之術」,也就是『統帥用兵的本領』。軍事布局是這個字最早的意思,後來才從戰場擴大到『為達成任何目標而做的整體規劃』。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'strategy'

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原始詞典資料3 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。

strategynoun/ˈstɹæt.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ/

  • 1

    The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.

    • “I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”
  • 2

    A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.

    • Oftentimes, the very simple strategies pay very great dividends.
    • Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
  • 3

    The act of strategizing; the development of effective strategies.

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