• vt. 感覺；認為；觸摸；試探
• vi. 覺得；摸索
• n. 感覺；觸摸

來自PIE*pal,觸摸，感受，詞源同palpitate.

feel

feel: [OE] Like its West Germanic cousins, German fühlen and Dutch voelen, feel is part of a wider Indo-European word-family covering notions like ‘touching’ and ‘handling’, including Greek palámē and Latin palma ‘palm of the hand’ and Latin palpāre, originally ‘stroke, touch lightly’, later ‘feel’ (source of English palpable and palpitation). Its ultimate ancestor was the Indo-European base *pōl-, *pal-.
=> palm, palpable, palpitation

feel (v.)

Old English felan "to touch or have a sensory experience of; perceive, sense (something)," in late Old English "have a mental perception," from Proto-Germanic *foljan (cognates: Old Saxon gifolian, Old Frisian fela, Dutch voelen, Old High German vuolen, German fühlen "to feel," Old Norse falma "to grope"), from PIE root *pal- "to touch, feel, shake, strike softly" (cognates: Greek psallein "to pluck (the harp)," Latin palpare "to touch softly, stroke," palpitare "to move quickly"), perhaps ultimately imitative.

The meaning in Old English was "to perceive through senses which are not referred to any special organ." Sense of "be conscious of a tactile sensation, sense pain, pleasure, illness, etc.; have an emotional experience or reaction," developed by c. 1200, also "have an opinion or conviction;" that of "to react with sympathy or compassion" is from mid-14c. Meaning "to try by touch" is from early 14c. From late 14c. as "know (something) beforehand, to have foreknowledge of." To feel like "want to" attested from 1829.

feel (n.)

early 13c., "sensation, understanding," from feel (v.). Meaning "action of feeling" is from mid-15c. That of "sensation produced (by an object, surface, etc.)" is from 1739. Slang sense of "a sexual grope" is from 1932; from verbal phrase to feel (someone) up (1930).

1. I know it's nothing serious and I feel quite unemotional about it.

我知道那根本沒什么大不了的，所以有些無動于衷。

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2. I feel it's done me good to get it off my chest.

我感覺吐吐苦水對我有好處。

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3. I've gotten my feet thoroughly soaked and feel frozen through and through.

我雙腳濕透，感覺都凍到骨頭里了。

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4. He doesn't feel he is cut out to be a leader.

他認為自己沒有做領導的才能。

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5. I always feel at home at Ye Olde Starre Inn.

在昨日星辰客棧，我總有種賓至如歸的感覺。

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