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 sub·ject /ˈsʌbʤɪkt, (ˌ)ʤɛkt/
 主題,臣民,主語,題目,學科,受治療者,原因,理由,自我(a.)服從的,科目 ;  (為了搜尋方便,E-MAIL上的信件都有一個主題欄, 此欄用來描述信的主要內容)

 sub·ject /ˈsəbʤɪkt/ 名詞
 論題,題目,科目,學科,主語,病人,患者,被實驗者,受實驗者,解剖的屍體,遭受,忍受,從屬,受驗者,受治療者,解剖的屍體

 subject
 主題

 Sub·ject a.
 1. Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation. [Obs.]
 2. Placed under the power of another; specifically International Law, owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state; as, Jamaica is subject to Great Britain.
    Esau was never subject to Jacob.   --Locke.
 3. Exposed; liable; prone; disposed; as, a country subject to extreme heat; men subject to temptation.
    All human things are subject to decay.   --Dryden.
 4. Obedient; submissive.
    Put them in mind to be subject to principalities.   --Titus iii. 1.
 Syn: -- Liable; subordinate; inferior; obnoxious; exposed. See Liable.

 Sub·ject v. t. [imp. & p. p. Subjected p. pr. & vb. n. Subjecting.]
 1. To bring under control, power, or dominion; to make subject; to subordinate; to subdue.
    Firmness of mind that subjects every gratification of sense to the rule of right reason.   --C. Middleton.
 In one short view subjected to our eye,
 Gods, emperors, heroes, sages, beauties, lie.   --Pope.
    He is the most subjected, the most ░nslaved, who is so in his understanding.   --Locke.
 2. To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions.
 3. To submit; to make accountable.
    God is not bound to subject his ways of operation to the scrutiny of our thoughts.   --Locke.
 4. To make subservient.
    Subjected to his service angel wings.   --Milton.
 5. To cause to undergo; as, to subject a substance to a white heat; to subject a person to a rigid test.
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 Sub·ject, n.
 1. That which is placed under the authority, dominion, control, or influence of something else.
 2. Specifically: One who is under the authority of a ruler and is governed by his laws; one who owes allegiance to a sovereign or a sovereign state; as, a subject of Queen Victoria; a British subject; a subject of the United States.
 Was never subject longed to be a king,
 As I do long and wish to be a subject.   --Shak.
    The subject must obey his prince, because God commands it, human laws require it.   --Swift.
 Note: ☞ In international law, the term subject is convertible with citizen.
 3. That which is subjected, or submitted to, any physical operation or process; specifically Anat., a dead body used for the purpose of dissection.
 4. That which is brought under thought or examination; that which is taken up for discussion, or concerning which anything is said or done. “This subject for heroic song.”
    Make choice of a subject, beautiful and noble, which . . . shall afford an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate.   --Dryden.
    The unhappy subject of these quarrels.   --Shak.
 5. The person who is treated of; the hero of a piece; the chief character.
    Writers of particular lives . . . are apt to be prejudiced in favor of their subject.   --C. Middleton.
 6. Logic & Gram. That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb.
    The subject of a proposition is that concerning which anything is affirmed or denied.   --I. Watts.
 7. That in which any quality, attribute, or relation, whether spiritual or material, inheres, or to which any of these appertain; substance; substratum.
    That which manifests its qualities -- in other words, that in which the appearing causes inhere, that to which they belong -- is called their subject or substance, or substratum.   --Sir W. Hamilton.
 8. Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations; the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego.  Cf. Object, n., 2.
    The philosophers of mind have, in a manner, usurped and appropriated this expression to themselves. Accordingly, in their hands, the phrases conscious or thinking subject, and subject, mean precisely the same thing.   --Sir W. Hamilton.
 9. Mus. The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based.
    The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song.   --Rockstro.
 10. Fine Arts The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent.

 subject
      adj 1: not exempt from tax; "the gift will be subject to taxation"
             [syn: subject(p)]
      2:  possibly accepting or permitting; "a passage capable of
         misinterpretation"; "open to interpretation"; "an issue
         open to question"; "the time is fixed by the director and
         players and therefore subject to much variation" [syn: capable,
          open]
      3: being under the power or sovereignty of another or others;
         "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince" [syn: dependent]
      n 1: the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he
           didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very
           sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme
           of love" [syn: topic, theme]
      2: some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept
         drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the
         subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the
         police" [syn: topic, issue, matter]
      3: a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his
         doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their
         subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
         [syn: discipline, subject area, subject field, field,
          field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of
         knowledge]
      4: something (a person or object or scene) selected by an
         artist or photographer for graphic representation; "a
         moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still
         picture of the same subject" [syn: content, depicted
         object]
      5: a person who is subjected to experimental or other
         observational procedures; someone who is an object of
         investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were
         selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn
         from two different communities" [syn: case, guinea pig]
      6: a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has
         a duty to his subjects" [syn: national]
      7: (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence;
         the grammatical constituent about which something is
         predicated
      8: (logic) the first term of a proposition
      v 1: cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable
           to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant
           subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in
           Chernobyl were subjected to radiation"
      2: make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to
         the judgments of his superiors"
      3: make subservient; force to submit or subdue [syn: subjugate]
      4: refer for judgment or consideration; "She submitted a
         proposal to the agency" [syn: submit]