ego
英 ['i?g??; 'e-]
美['iɡo]
- n. 自我；自負；自我意識
- n. (Ego)人名；(日)依怙 (姓)；(法)埃戈
CET4TEM4IELTS考研中低頻詞常用詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?egos;
中文詞源
ego 自我
來自拉丁文，英語I的原型。
英文詞源
- ego
- ego: [19] Ego is Latin for ‘I’ (and comes in fact from the same Indo-European base as produced English I). English originally acquired it in the early 19th century as a philosophical term for the ‘conscious self’, and the more familiar modern uses – ‘self-esteem’, or more derogatorily ‘selfimportance’, and the psychologist’s term (taken up by Freud) for the ‘conscious self’ – date from the end of the century.
Derivatives include egoism [18], borrowed from French égo?sme, and egotism [18], perhaps deliberately coined with the t to distinguish it from egoism. And the acquisitions do not end there: alter ego, literally ‘other I, second self’, was borrowed in the 16th century, and the Freudian term superego, ‘beyond I’, entered the language in the 1920s.
=> i - ego (n.)
- 1714, as a term in metaphysics, "the self; that which feels, acts, or thinks," from Latin ego "I" (cognate with Old English ic; see I). Psychoanalytic (Freudian) sense is from 1894; sense of "conceit" is 1891. Ego-trip first recorded 1969, from trip (n.). Related: egoical; egoity.
In the book of Egoism it is written, Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. [George Meredith, "The Egoist," 1879]
雙語例句
- 1. She is, first and foremost, her husband's alter ego.
- 她首先是丈夫的知己。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Barry Humphries's alter ego Dame Edna has taken the US by storm.
- 巴里·漢弗萊斯憑借埃德娜夫人一角轟動全美。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. She was a prisoner of her own ego.
- 她為自己的自尊心所困。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Superman's alter ego was Clark Kent.
- 超人的第二自我是克拉克?肯特。
來自《權威詞典》
- 5. He has the biggest ego of anyone I've ever met.
- 他是我所見的最自負的人。
來自《權威詞典》