核心畫面

Picture a house with the door swinging open and grass growing through the steps. Somebody was responsible for it and walked away. That is the everyday word. There is also an older literary use where what has been let go of is not a place but a person's own restraint — dancing with abandon, holding nothing back.

可以想成:一棟房子門開著晃來晃去,草從階梯縫裡長出來。本來有人該照顧它,那個人走了。這是日常的用法。另外還有一支比較更多收起可以想成:一棟房子門開著晃來晃去,草從階梯縫裡長出來。本來有人該照顧它,那個人走了。這是日常的用法。另外還有一支比較舊的文學用法:被放掉的不是房子,而是一個人自己的克制——盡情跳舞、什麼都不收著。兩邊共通的動作都是「鬆手不管了」,差別只在鬆掉的是責任還是自制。

From the picture

放開自己的拘束

鬆手的對象從外面的東西換成自己內在的克制:不再拉住自己,於是動作變得放得開、豁出去。

uninhibited · adjective · B2

Behaving in a wild, free way, without holding back or worrying about control.

忘我的 / 盡情的

Also in this word

deserted; unused · adjective · B2

Left empty or unused by the people who owned it, and no longer looked after.

廢棄的

left alone (by carers) · adjective · B2

Left all alone by the person or people who were supposed to look after you.

被遺棄的

原始詞典資料5 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。

abandonedadj/əˈbæn.dənd/

  • 1

    Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.

    • Such immunity to offenders offered a safe asylum to the vilest and most abandoned scoundrels.
  • 2

    No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.

    • abandoned building
    • abandoned property
  • 3

    Free from constraint; uninhibited.

    • Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
    • What is the same is our need for community. What seemed different was an abandoned enjoyment of life and music, a uniquely Quebec sense of joie de vivre.
  • 4

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesNo longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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