核心畫面
You can picture 'advertise' as turning something private into something the public can see — holding it up where everyone is looking, to make them notice and want it. The selling sense is just the loudest, most common version of this 'make it publicly known' picture.
可以想成把原本只有自己知道的事，舉到大家眼前讓眾人都看見、注意到、進而想要。賣東西打廣告，只是這個「公開讓人知道」畫…更多收起
可以想成把原本只有自己知道的事，舉到大家眼前讓眾人都看見、注意到、進而想要。賣東西打廣告，只是這個「公開讓人知道」畫面裡最大聲、最常見的一種。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。
advertiseverb/ˈædvəˌtaɪ̯z/
- 1
To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.
- 2
To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others.
- For personal needs, advertise on the internet or in a local newspaper.
- 3
To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public awareness and increase sales.
- Over the air, they advertise their product on drive-time radio talk shows and TV news shows.
- 4
archaicTo notify (someone) of something; to call someone's attention to something.
- Socrates being advertiſed, that the God of wiſdome, had attributed the name of wiſe vnto him, was thereat much aſtoniſhed, and diligently ſearching and rouzing vp himſelf, and ranſaking the very ſecrets of his heart, found no foundation or ground for his divine ſentence.
- [T]he Queene [Isabella of France], vvhen ſhee vvas […] aduertiſed of her huſbands dethronization, ſhee outvvardly expreſſed ſo great extremity of paſſion (notvvithſtanding that at the ſame time ſhee vvas tolde of her ſonnes [Edward III of England's] ſurrogation) as if ſhee had beene diſtraught in her vvittes: […]
- 5
card-gamesgamesIn gin rummy, to discard a card of one's preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
- The safest time to answer a possible advertisement is when you have no indication as to what suit your opponent wants. Then even if he has advertised, the odds are that your answer is not the card he is looking for.
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。