Sunday, October 7, 2007

心(Mind-Heart)

關心=caring,concerned
開心=happy
小心=(be)careful
當心=careful,take care
細心=careful,attentive
粗心=careless
用心=diligent
專心=single-hearted devotion,concentration
分心=distracted
多心=suspicious
疑心=suspicious
無心=careless,mindless
有心=purposefully,set one's mind on
一心=being single-minded
花心=dandy
愛心=caring,loving
善心=kind,good
誠心=sincerity
恆心=perseverance
耐心=patience
留心=paying attention to
順心=satisfactory
稱心=satisfactory
衷心=whole-hearted
中心=centre
忠心=loyalty
齊心=be of one mind
同心=of one heart
黑心=being evil
惡心=digusted
野心=ambition
私心=selfish
痛心=painfully,distressed
童心=childlike innocence,playfulness
傷心=sadness,being sad
安心=feeling safe
決心=determination
憂心=worried
擔心=worried
費心=give a lot of care,take a lot of trouble
放心=feel relieved
精心=meticulously
驚心=stirred,frightened
死心=having no more illusion about
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或者,不是『心』這個字有趣,而是人的行為、思想有趣,而反映在語言的變化上。

(原載Saturday, April 07, 2007)

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