critic
英 ['krɪtɪk]
美 ['krɪtɪk]
英文詞源
- critic
- critic: [16] Critic and crisis both come ultimately from the Greek verb krínein ‘decide’ (a relative of Latin cernere ‘decide’, which produced English certain, crime, decree, discern, discrete, discriminate, excrement, riddle ‘sieve’, secret, and secretary). The Greek derived noun krísis ‘judgment’ was used by the physicians Hippocrates and Galen for the ‘turning point of a disease’.
It passed as a medical term via Latin crisis into English in the 15th century, where it was not used in the more general modern sense until the 17th century. The Greek derived noun krités ‘judge’ produced in turn kritikós ‘able to make judgments’; this came to be used as a noun, ‘one who makes judgments’, which passed via Latin criticus into English.
Another descendant of krités was Greek kritérion ‘standard for making a judgment’, borrowed directly into English in the 17th century as criterion.
=> certain, crime, crisis, criterion, discern, discriminate, excrement, secret - critic (n.)
- 1580s, "one who passes judgment," from Middle French critique (14c.), from Latin criticus "a judge, literary critic," from Greek kritikos "able to make judgments," from krinein "to separate, decide" (see crisis). Meaning "one who judges merits of books, plays, etc." is from c. 1600. The English word always had overtones of "censurer, faultfinder."
To understand how the artist felt, however, is not criticism; criticism is an investigation of what the work is good for. ... Criticism ... is a serious and public function; it shows the race assimilating the individual, dividing the immortal from the mortal part of a soul. [George Santayana, "The Life of Reason," 1906]
A perfect judge will read each work of wit
With the same spirit that its author writ;
[Pope, "An Essay on Criticism," 1709]
雙語例句
- 1. He was a stern critic but an extremely kindly man.
- 他是個苛刻的批評家，但卻是個非常善良的人。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. I left Oxford in 1961 hungry to be a critic.
- 我於1961年離開牛津，渴望成為一名評論家。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He was also for a time the art critic of "The Scotsman"
- 有相當長的一段時間他為《蘇格蘭人》報撰寫藝術評論。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Malaysia has emerged as the toughest critic of the North's environmental attitudes.
- 馬來西亞已成為對北方發達國家環保態度最嚴厲的批評者。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Alexander Lazarus is a food critic for the newspaper.
- 亞曆山大·拉紮勒斯是為該報撰稿的飲食評論家。
來自柯林斯例句