喜樂美語

核心畫面

Apple is first just the fruit — a hard, round fruit you can hold in one hand, red or green or yellow outside, crisp and white inside. Everything else here is that same everyday fruit pulled into a saying, so the picture to hold is simply: the apple itself, something so common and familiar that English keeps reaching for it.

apple 最先比較像那顆水果——一手就能握住的硬硬圓圓的果子，皮是紅的、綠的或黃的，咬開裡面是脆脆的白肉。後面其他…更多收起apple 最先比較像那顆水果——一手就能握住的硬硬圓圓的果子，皮是紅的、綠的或黃的，咬開裡面是脆脆的白肉。後面其他意思都是這顆再日常不過的水果被拉進俗語裡。所以要記住的畫面很單純：就是蘋果本身，一樣常見到英語老愛拿它來打比方的東西。

原始詞典資料28 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。

Applename/ˈæp.əl/

  • 1

    Nickname for New York City: a major city in New York, United States; more commonly in the form the Big Apple.

  • 2

    rareA female given name from English.

  • 3

    A surname.

Applenoun/ˈæp.əl/

  • 1

    A computer produced by the company Apple Inc.

    • Arthur bought the Apple anyway. Over a few days he also acquired some astronomical software, plotted the movements of stars, drew rough little diagrams of how he seemed to remember the stars to have been […]

applenoun/ˈæpəl/

  • 1

    A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

    • All apples eaten ſoone after yͭ they be gathered, are cold, hard to digeſt, and do make ill and corrupted bloud, but being wel kept vntill yͤ next winter, or the year folowing, eatẽ [eaten] after meales, they are right holeſome, & doe confyrme the ſtomacke, & make good digeſtion, ſpecially if they be roſted or baked, […]
    • [T]hey [i.e., writers] aſſigne and lay to India, the countrey of the Aſpagores, ſo plentifull in vines, laurels, and box, and generally of all ſorts of apple trees and other fruitfull trees that grovv vvithin Greece.
  • 2

    A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

    • custard apple    rose apple    thorn apple
    • The apples wherewith the Indian Canibales inueneme theyr arrowes, growe on certeyne trees couered with many braunches and leaues beinge very greene and growyng thicke. They are laden with abundaunce of theſe euyll frutes, […]
  • 3

    A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

    • [H]old a round ball or hollovv apple of glaſſe full of vvater againſt the Sunne, it vvill be ſo hot, that it is ready to burne any cloth that it toucheth.
    • [S]hrugging up her Shoulders, to ſhevv the tempting Apples of her vvhite Breaſts, ſhe ſuddainly lets them ſink again, to hide them, bluſhing, as if this had been done by chance, […]
  • 4

    informalA common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

  • 5

    geometrymathematicssciencesA common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

  • 6

    lifestylesmokingA common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

  • 7

    obsoleteslangball-gamesbaseballgamesA common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

    • Hey Dad! What do you say we toss the old apple around, huh? Sound like fun?
  • 8

    ChristianityA common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

    • Him [man] by fraud I [Satan] have ſeduc'd / From his Creator, and the more to increaſe / Your vvonder, vvith an Apple; […]
    • I read and re-read her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart, and dared to whisper paradisiacal dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoletebiologybotanynatural-sciencesA common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

  • 10

    A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.

    • He's only three apples tall
  • 11

    A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.

    • Trees that beare Maſt, and Nuts, are commonly more laſting, than thoſe that beare Fruits; Eſpecially the Moiſter Fruits: As Oakes, Beeches, Cheſ-nuts, VVall-nuts, Almonds, Pine-Trees, &c. laſt longer than Apples, Peares, Plums, &c.
    • If the grafted portion of an Apple or other tree were examined after one hundred years, the old cut surfaces would still be present, for mature or ripened wood, being dead, never unites.
  • 12

    Synonym of applewood (“the wood of the apple tree”).

  • 13

    A fruit of any kind.

  • 14

    slangA person.

    • “I saw a little guy with a can opener fooling around that gum machine,” was the reply. “And then?” asked McGonigle. “I can’t say,” replied the poor apple.
    • “Take it easy with Thompson, Eddie,” he said lazily. “He’s a good apple but he’s mighty tough to go pushing around. He’s had a lot of bad luck lately.”
  • 15

    slangSynonym of CBer (“a CB radio enthusiast”).

    • Because of overcrowding, many a CB enthusiast (called an "apple") is strapping an illegal linear amplifier ("boots") on to his transceiver ("ears") which is limited by the Federal Communications Commission ("Big Daddy" in the US) to an output power of no more than five watts.
  • 16

    slanghobbiesice-hockeylifestyleAn assist.

  • 17

    derogatoryslurslangA Native American or redskinned person who acts or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.

    • My ancestors five generations removed were "apples" who were "White" on the inside and "Red" on the outside. […] We need a new breed of "apples."
    • The presenter, close to tears, told the audience that she's really an apple—white on the inside and red on the outside—Native American.

appleverb/ˈæpəl/

  • 1

    To make (something) appear like an apple (noun sense 1.1).

    • To choose responsibly, our active citizen must know what is being offered, much of this knowledge being filtered through appearance: things must look what they are supposed to be. Apples must look like applies. One might say they have to be appled-up; varieties are selected for marketing which have the most apple-like qualities.
    • A large smile appled his full cheeks as the four sprytes eagerly served themselves from the seeds and thinly sliced fruits.
  • 2

    To become like an apple.

    • He glanced at me, his cheeks appled in the impish grin I was learning to recognise as the clever under-side of his broad and gentle smile.
    • She smiled, and her cheeks appled up and her teeth were big and flat and her mouth was wide and spacious like an open invitation.
  • 3

    raredialectalTo collect fir-cones.

  • 4

    dialectalOf a flower bud or vegetable (especially a root vegetable): to grow into the shape of an apple.

    • As for Scolymus [possibly type of artichoke?], it differeth from the reſt of theſe Thiſtles herein, That the root, if it be ſodden, it is good to be eaten: beſides, it hath a ſtraunge nature, for all the ſort of them during the Summer throughout, never reſt and give over, but either they floure, or they apple, or els be readie to bring foorth fruit: […]
    • To Pome or Apple, is ſaid of the Heads of Artichokes vvhen they grovv round, and full ſhaped as an Apple. It is ſaid alſo of Lettuce, &c.

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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。