You can picture unique as 'only one of this kind anywhere' — you search the whole world and find nothing else exactly the same. The other meanings all lean on this single core picture: if there is truly only one, it naturally stands out, and it naturally belongs to just that one place or person.
可以想成「全世界只有這一個」——你把整個世界翻遍，也找不到第二個一模一樣的。其他用法都靠這個畫面延伸：既然只此一個，自然就突出醒目，也自然只屬於某個特定的地方或人。
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原始詞典資料5 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。
uniqueadj/juːˈniːk/
- 1
Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.
- Every person has a unique life, therefore every person has a unique journey.
- Perhaps the reader will wonder why we have placed our " beings " on a sphere rather than on another closed surface. But this choice has its justification in the fact that, of all closed surfaces, the sphere is unique in possessing the property that all points on it are equivalent.
- 2
Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.
- 3
Particular, characteristic.
- 4
Rare or unusual.
- And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique, the sixty of us, in that there wasn’t one good mixer in the bunch.
uniquenoun/juːˈniːk/
- 1
A thing without a like; something unequalled or unparallelled; one of a kind.
- The phoenix, the unique of birds.
- […] uniques of the game, Sauron and Morgoth, are found on levels 99 and 100 of the dungeon respectively, […]
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