n. 想法；主意；概念
英 [aɪ'dɪə] 美 [aɪ'diə]
权威例句
- I have a fair idea of how difficult things can be.
我大致了解情况会有多困难。
来自柯林斯例句 - They have only a vague idea of the amount of water available.
他们只是大概知道可用水的总量。
来自柯林斯例句 - Professor Baker is unacquainted with the idea of representative democracy.
贝克教授并不熟悉“代议制民主”这一思想。
来自柯林斯例句 - The police told me. It was a bombshell. I had no idea.
是警察告诉我的。我很震惊，完全没想到。
来自柯林斯例句 - "I told you Preskel had no idea," remarked Kemp with some asperity.
“我告诉过你普雷斯克毫不知情的，”肯普颇为不耐烦地说道。
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
idea 主意，想法
来自拉丁语idea,想象，想法，想象中的上帝的模样，来自PIE*weid,看，字母w脱落，词源同video,evident.引申词义看，幻想，现用于指主意，想法。
英文词源
idea
**idea: **[16] Etymologically, an _idea _is the ‘look’ of something – it comes ultimately from the same source as produced the Greek verb _ídein _‘see’. Greek _idéā _itself was used by Plato in the specialized sense ‘archetypal form of something’, which survives in the derived adjective _ideal _[17], but as far as the modern English noun is concerned, its sense ‘notion, mental conception’ developed (in Greek) via ‘look, appearance’, ‘image’, and ‘mental image’. _Ideology _[18] is a derivative, coined originally in French at the end of the 18th century.
=> ideology, idol
idea (n.)
late 14c., "archetype of a thing in the mind of God; Platonic `idea,'" from Latin idea "idea," and in Platonic philosophy "archetype," from Greek idea "ideal prototype," literally "the look of a thing (as opposed to the reality); form; kind, sort, nature," from idein "to see," from PIE *wid-es-ya-, suffixed form of root *weid- "to see" (see vision). Sense of "result of thinking" first recorded 1640s.
Men of one idea, like a hen with one chicken, and that a duckling. [Thoreau, "Walden"]
Idée fixe (1836) is from French, literally "fixed idea."
