epiphany

參見：Epiphany

英語

詞源

源自中古英語 epiphanie，源自古法語 epyphanie，源自晚期拉丁語 epiphania，源自古希臘語 ἐπιφάνεια (epipháneia, 「展示，突現」)，源自ἐπιφαίνω (epiphaínō, 「出現，展示」)，源自ἐπί (epí, 「之上」) + φαίνω (phaínō, 「發光；出現」)。英語中Epiphany（基督教用法）自14世紀起有使用，一般用法出現於17世紀。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ɪˈpɪf.ə.ni/, /ɪˈpɪf.ni/, /ɛˈpɪf.ə.ni/

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名詞

epiphany (複數 epiphanies)

1. 靈光乍現，頓悟

   近義詞：aha moment、enlightenment、nirvana、satori

   It came to her in an epiphany what her life's work was to be.

   她一下子想明白了她這一生要做什麼。

   • 1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, 出版於 2009:

     Instead of examining institutions and classes, structures of economic production and social control, one had to think about “moments”—moments of love, hate, poetry, frustration, action, surrender, delight, humiliation, justice, cruelty, resignation, surprise, disgust, resentment, self-loathing, pity, fury, peace of mind—those tiny epiphanies, Lefebvre said, in which the absolute possibilities and temporal limits of anyone's existence were revealed.

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   • 2013, Chris Hadfield, 章號 11, 出自 An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

     But after spending most of my pocket money to get those developed, I had an epiphany: I was never going to be a professional photographer. My pictures were god-awful. I put the camera away.

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2. （神仙，超人等）降臨，下凡，登場，顯現

   近義詞：theophany

3. (基督教) Epiphany的大小寫替代形式。

相關詞彙

• (基督教節日)： Epiphany

參見

• Advent
• Christmas
• eureka
• Twelve Days of Christmas

延伸閱讀

• epiphany (feeling)在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en
• epiphany (disambiguation)在英語維基百科上的資料。維基百科 ^en