sceptic

英 ['skept?k] 美

低頻詞暢通詞匯

復數:?sceptics;

1、scept- + -ic.
2、以審視的眼光去看待問題、看待各種事物/現象，也就是以懷疑的眼光、態度去看待問題、看待各種事物/現象。

sceptic: sceptic: [16] The Greek verb sképtesthai meant ‘examine, consider’ (it was descended from a base *skep- which was related to *skop-, source of English scope, and may have been a reversed version of *spek-, from which English gets spectator, speculate, etc). From it was derived the adjective skeptikós, which was applied to various schools of philosophy (particularly that of Pyrrho of Elis) which stressed the need for careful examination of a proposition, starting from an attitude of doubt, before accepting it.

The word passed via Latin scepticus and French sceptique into English as sceptic, by which time it had acquired broader connotations of ‘initial doubt’.
=> scope
sceptic (n.): chiefly British English spelling of skeptic (q.v.). Related: Sceptical; sceptically; scepticism.

1. You may be a sceptic and put it down to life's inequalities.: 你或許是個懷疑論者，會把它歸因于生活的不公正。

3. Arriving in Egypt, Frederick met the sultan, a fellow sceptic in religious questions.: 抵達埃及后, 腓特烈拜見了宗教懷疑論者同伴蘇丹.

4. Perhaps he is a climate sceptic – I have no idea.: 或許他是一名氣候變化懷疑論者——我也不清楚.

5. The empirical sceptic appropriately responds: how do you know?: 經驗主義的懷疑者可以作適當的反應: 你是如何知道的?