喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture walking away from something and not coming back for it — a car left at the , a village emptied out, a plan dropped halfway. Whatever you walk away from, you let go of your hold on it. The last use turns that : what you let go of is your own self-control, and then you are dancing with abandon.

可以想成：走開，而且不再回頭去拿——路邊丟著的車、人去樓空的村子、做到一半就擱下的計畫。不管走開的是什麼，你都鬆開了…更多收起可以想成：走開，而且不再回頭去拿——路邊丟著的車、人去樓空的村子、做到一半就擱下的計畫。不管走開的是什麼，你都鬆開了原本抓著它的那隻手。最後一個用法把這個動作轉向自己：鬆開的是自己的克制，於是就成了 dance with abandon（忘我地跳舞）。

Three branches

把人或東西留在後面走開

最字面的一面：離開的對象是看得見的人、動物、地方或東西。

abandon, leave someone helpless · verb · B1

to leave a person or an animal that needs you to take care of them, and not come back.

遺棄；拋下

中途停下、不再抱著

走開的對象變成看不見的東西：一件做到一半的事，或一個原本相信著的念頭。

abandon, give up unfinished · verb · B2

to stop doing something before it is finished, because there are too many problems to go on.

中止；半途放棄

放掉對自己的約束

這一次鬆開的是自己的克制：不再拉住自己，任由感覺帶著走。

abandon, reckless freedom · noun · C1

a way of doing something in which you stop holding yourself back and do not think about being careful.

放縱；忘我

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

abandonverb詞源 1/əˈbæn.dən/

  • 1

    To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.

    • […] he abandoned himself […] to his favourite vice.
  • 2

    To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue.

    • In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
  • 3

    To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility.

    • Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.
    • He was abandoned on the island with no one to help him.
  • 4

    obsoleteTo subdue; to take control of.

  • 5

    obsoleteTo cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

    • Being all this time abandoned from your bed.
  • 6

    To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish.

    • I hereby abandon my position as manager.
  • 7

    To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.

abandonnoun詞源 2/əˈbæn.dən/

  • 1

    A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)

    • with gay abandon, with wild abandon, with reckless abandon
    • The Italian painters have an abandon in their chiar' oscuro which mellows up their flesh tints in a way that no other school can imitate : the frigidity of their outline is another remarkable feature, and the harmony of their impasto is unique.
  • 2

    obsoleteAbandonment; relinquishment.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。