feature

记忆“feature”可以通过以下简单方法：

想象一个特征（feature）就像是一台电视节目（feature show）中的一个特别突出的部分，这个部分是节目（feature）的特色或亮点。将“feature”与“feature show”联系起来，有助于记住它作为名词的意思是“特点”、“特性”或“特色”，以及作为动词的意思是“特写”、“由…主演”。

feature 特征，面容，故事片

来自法语。来自词根fac, 做，词源同do, fact.即做出来的事实。引申词义特征，面容以及电影体裁故事片。

feature

feature: [14] Feature comes ultimately from Latin factūra, a derivative of the verb facere ‘do, make’ which meant literally ‘making, formation’. Elements of this original sense remained when the word reached English via Old French faiture – when John Dymmok wrote in 1600 of ‘horses of a fine feature’, for example, he was referring to their shape or general conformation – but already a semantic narrowing down to the ‘way in which the face is shaped’ had taken place.

This meaning was then distributed, as it were, to the individual components of the face, and hence (in the 17th century) to any distinctive or characteristic part.
=> difficult, fact, factory, fashion, feasible, feat

feature (n.)

early 14c., "make, form, fashion" (obsolete), from Anglo-French feture, from Old French faiture "deed, action; fashion, shape, form; countenance," from Latin factura "a formation, a working," from past participle stem of facere "make, do, perform" (see factitious).

Sense of "facial characteristic" is mid-14c.; that of "any distinctive part" first recorded 1690s. Entertainment sense is from 1801; in journalism by 1855. Meaning "a feature film" is from 1913. Latin factura also is the source of Spanish hechura, Portuguese feitura, Italian fattura.

feature (v.)

1755, "to resemble, have features resembling," from feature (n.). The sense of "make special display or attraction of" is 1888; entertainment sense from 1897. Related: Featured; featuring.

1. The most arresting feature is the painted wall decoration.

最醒目的特点是绘有图画的墙面装饰。

2. Wanton violence is now becoming a regular feature of urban life.

肆无忌惮的暴行在城市生活中越来越司空见惯。

3. Television companies tend to censor bad language in feature films.

电视公司往往会在审查故事片时删去其中的粗话。

4. The festival will feature pyrotechnics, live music, and sculptures.

节日里将有烟花表演、现场音乐会和雕塑展。

5. The saddles feature a reflective trim for night time visibility.

这些车座的特点是带有在夜间可视的反光镶边。

【peculiarity, properity, quality, attribute, feature, characteristic, character, trait】
这组词都有“特性、特点、品质”的意思，其区别是：
peculiarity: 指人或事物独具的或奇怪的特点，常带感情色彩。
properity: 多指同类事物所共有的特性，一般不用于指人。
quality: 最普通用词，既可指有形或无形的特性，又可指个性或共性的特征。
attribute: 通常指人主观赋予某事物的属性，可指典型事物。
feature: 指事物突出引人注目的特点。多用来说明人的容貌特征或地理特征。
characteristic: 指某人或某物天生有别于他人或他物的内部特质或外表特征。
character: 多指一类人或事物所具有的独特的典型的特征。
trait: 多指人的性格、心情的特征，尤指先天秉赋的持久的行为模式或性格特征。

【peculiarity, quality, attribute, feature, property, characteristic, publicity, trait, character, popularity】
peculiarity: 独具的或奇怪的特点，常带感情色彩；
quality: 既可指有形或无形的特性，又可指个性或共性的特征；
attribute: 通常指人主观赋予某事物的属性，可指典型事物
feature: 指事物突出引人注目的特点。多用来说明人的容貌特征或地理特征；
property: 多指同类事物所共有的特性，一般不用于指人；
characteristic: 指某人或某物天生有别于他人或他物的内部特质或外表特征；
publicity: 公开，宣传；
trait: 多指人的性格、心情的特征，尤指先天秉赋的持久的行为模式或性格特征；
character: 多指一类人或事物所具有的独特的典型的特征；
popularity: 普遍，流行；