n.
- 主意；打算；計畫[C][（+of）][+to-v][+that]
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He hit upon the good
idea of spending the weekend in the nearby holiday camp.
他想到去附近度假營過週末這個好主意。
He is full of
ideas.
他主意很多。
- 構想；概念[C][U][（+of）]
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Have you any
idea of what he is up to?
你知道他想幹什麼嗎？
- 了解，明白[C][（+of）][+wh-]
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I have no
idea what to do.
我不知道該怎麼辦。
Jimmie had but a vague
idea of world conditions now.
傑米對當今世界情況只有一點模糊的了解。
- 臆測；推量[C][+（that）]
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I've an
idea that he'll soon quit the job.
我猜想他不久就要辭掉這工作。
- 意見，見解；信念[（+about/on）][+that]
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That at least is my
idea about friendship.
至少那是我對友誼的理解。
- 思想；觀念[C][U]
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He destroyed feudal
ideas in literature.
他摧毀了文學中的封建思想。
片語
get ideas into one's head
- 抱不切實際的想法
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He told his mother not to
get ideas into her head.
他要他母親別胡思亂想。
put ideas in sb.'s head
- 使某人存奢望
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Going to university has
put ideas in her head.
上大學使她想入非非。
衍生
辨析
n.
- a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action.
▸a mental impression.
▸a belief.
-
(the idea)
the aim or purpose of an action.
- Philosophy (in Platonic thought) an eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies.
▸(in Kantian thought) a concept of pure reason, not empirically based in experience.
Phrase
- get
(or give someone)
ideas
informal become (or make someone) ambitious, conceited, or tempted to do something. - have no idea
informal not know at all. - that's the idea
informal that's right. - the very idea!
informal an exclamation of disapproval or disagreement.
Etymology
ME: via L. from Gk idea ‘form, pattern’, from the base of idein ‘to see’.
