opinion

詳細解釋：

o.pin.ion

n.（名詞）
A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof:
信念，觀點：確信但沒被正確的知識或證據證明的一種信念或結論：
例句：
.The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.(Elizabeth Drew)
.世界不是依思想和想像而轉移，而是因信念而生生不息.(伊莉莎白·德魯)

A judgment based on special knowledge and given by an expert:
鑑定，專家的意見：在專門知識的基礎上專家所給出的判斷：
例句：
a medical opinion.
醫學鑑定

A judgment or an estimation of the merit of a person or thing:
評價：對一個人或一個事物的優點的評價或判斷：
例句：
has a low opinion of braggarts.
給吹牛者低評價

The prevailing view:
輿論：
例句：
public opinion.
大眾觀點

Law A formal statement by a court or other adjudicative body of the legal reasons and principles for the conclusions of the court.
【法律】 宣判：由法院或其它司法機構根據法律條款或原則對法院判決的正式陳述

來源：
Middle English
中古英文
from Old French
源自 古法文
from Latin oponiô oponiôn-
源自 拉丁語 oponiô oponiôn-

<參考辭彙><同義詞>opinion,view,sentiment,feeling,belief,conviction,persuasionThese nouns signify something a person believes or accepts as being sound or true.
這些名詞意思是某人相信或接受已成的聲音或事實。
Opinion is applicable to a judgment,especially a personal judgment,based on grounds insufficient to rule out the possibility of dispute:
Opinion 常用於法院判決，尤其指個人的判斷，它基於一種根據，這種根據不足於排除可能的爭論：
例句：
It is wise to seek a second medical opinion before submitting to surgery.
在決定做手術之前再尋找另外一種手段是聰明的做法。

例句：
.A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own,have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible. (Woodrow Wilson).
.那些只代表他們自己的意見而不是其它公民意見的一小撮人，已經使偉大的美國政府處於一種無助和被人小瞧的地步. （伍德洛·威爾遜）。

View stresses individuality of outlook:
View 強調個人的某些觀點：
例句：
.My view is . . . that freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have or the views they express. (Hugo L. Black).
.我認為… * 的含義是對人民所擁有的觀點或他們所表達的觀點，你都不應任加改變. （雨果L·布萊克）

Sentiment and especiallyfeeling stress the role of emotion as a determinant:
Sentiment 尤其feeling 強調作為一種決定因素的情感作用：
例句：
.If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences . . . reason is of no use to us. (George Washington).
.如果不能使人們避免在可能導致嚴重後果的事情上感情用事…推理對於我們是沒有用的. （喬治·華盛頓）。

例句：
The economist gave us her feelings on the causes of inflation. Abelief is a conclusion, not necessarily derived firsthand, to which one subscribes strongly:
這位經濟學家告訴了我們她關於引起通貨膨脹的觀點。 Blief 是一種觀點，不一定是人們極力相信的第一個觀點：

例句：
.Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it. (Karl Popper).
.我們對於任何自然規律的堅信都不能象我們懷著不可能的願望去推翻它那樣有一個堅實的基礎. （卡爾·波爾）。

Conviction is a belief that excludes doubt:
Conviction 是一種勿庸置疑的信念：
例句：
.Responsible journalism is journalism responsible in the last analysis to the editor`s own conviction of what, whether interesting or only important, is in the public interest. (Walter Lippmann).
.有鑑別的新聞事業指的是那種編輯對於不論有趣的或重要的事都持有自己信念的作最後分析的新聞業，這種新聞對大眾負責. （沃特·里普曼）。

Persuasion applies to a confidently held opinion not necessarily based on intellectual considerations:
Persuasion 意味著堅信的觀點，不一定基於理性思考：
例句：
.He had a strong persuasion that Likeman was wrong. (H.G. Wells).
.他堅信萊克曼是錯的.。 （ H .G.威爾斯）