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源自中古英語 epiphanie,源自古法語 epyphanie,源自晚期拉丁語 epiphania,源自古希臘語 ἐπιφάνεια (epipháneia, 展示,突現),源自ἐπιφαίνω (epiphaínō, 出現,展示),源自ἐπί (epí, 之上) + φαίνω (phaínō, 發光;出現)。英語中Epiphany(基督教用法)自14世紀起有使用,一般用法出現於17世紀。

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  • 國際音標(幫助)/ɪˈpɪf.ə.ni/, /ɪˈpɪf.ni/, /ɛˈpɪf.ə.ni/
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epiphany (複數 epiphanies)

  1. 靈光乍現頓悟
    近義詞: aha momentenlightenmentnirvanasatori
    It came to her in an epiphany what her life's work was to be.
    一下子想明白了她這一生要做什麼。
    • 1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, 出版於 2009:
      Instead of examining institutions and classes, structures of economic production and social control, one had to think about 「moments」—moments of love, hate, poetry, frustration, action, surrender, delight, humiliation, justice, cruelty, resignation, surprise, disgust, resentment, self-loathing, pity, fury, peace of mind—those tiny epiphanies, Lefebvre said, in which the absolute possibilities and temporal limits of anyone's existence were revealed.
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    • 2013, Chris Hadfield, 章號 11, 出自 An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
      But after spending most of my pocket money to get those developed, I had an epiphany: I was never going to be a professional photographer. My pictures were god-awful. I put the camera away.
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  2. 神仙超人等)降臨下凡登場顯現
    近義詞: theophany
  3. (基督教) Epiphany的大小寫替代形式

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