喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture 'ball' as one simple thing: a round object. The toy you throw and kick is the clearest case, but anything rounded into that shape — a ball of wool, the rounded pad under your toes — is also a ball. From the sports ball grows a whole crowd of game words (a single throw or pitch, the name of the game itself) and dozens of lively that treat life like a ball game: keep it rolling, drop it, it's in your court. One family stands apart — a 'ball' meaning a grand dance — which is a different word entirely, from an old root meaning 'to dance', not from the round shape.

可以把「ball」想成一個很單純的東西：一個圓圓的物體。你丟、踢、打的那顆球是最清楚的例子，但任何揉成那個形狀的東西…更多收起可以把「ball」想成一個很單純的東西：一個圓圓的物體。你丟、踢、打的那顆球是最清楚的例子，但任何揉成那個形狀的東西——一團毛線、腳趾下面那塊鼓鼓的肉墊——也都是 ball。從運動用的球，長出一大群跟球賽有關的字（一次投擲、比賽本身的名字），還有幾十個把人生當球賽來比喻的生動慣用語：讓球繼續滾、把球掉了、球在你那邊。只有一群是例外——指『盛大舞會』的 ball——那其實是另一個字，來自古早一個『跳舞』的字根，跟圓形無關。

原始詞典資料45 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。

Ballname

  • 1

    An English surname.

  • 2

    A town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.

  • 3

    A hamlet in Egloshayle parish, on the eastern outskirts of Wadebridge, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0073).

ballnoun詞源 1/bɔːl/

  • 1

    A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

    • a ball of spittle; a fecal ball
  • 2

    A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

    • a ball of wool; a ball of twine
  • 3

    cookingfoodlifestyleA solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

    • This dish is served with balls of potato.
  • 4

    mathematicssciencesHomologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.

  • 5

    mathematicssciencesHomologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.

  • 6

    mathematicssciencesHomologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.

  • 7

    ballisticsengineeringfirearmsA solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.

  • 8

    obsoleteballisticsengineeringfirearmsA solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.

    • […] the Good Old Cause, which, as they seemed to represent it, smelt of Gunpowder and ball […]
    • I gave each of them a Musket with a Firelock on it, and about eight Charges of Powder and Ball, charging them to be very good Husbands of both, and not to use either of them but upon urgent Occasion.
另外 17 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.

    • the ball of the thumb
  • 10

    anatomymedicinesciencesA roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.

  • 11

    The globe; the earthly sphere.

    • c. 1712', Joseph Addison, Ode to the Creator of the World What, though in solemn Silence, all / Move round the dark terrestrial Ball!
    • Thus, if eternal Justice rules the ball, / Thus shall your wives, and thus your children fall;
  • 12

    hobbieslifestylesportsAn object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game

    • Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
    • Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.
  • 13

    hobbieslifestylesportsAn object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game

    • The children were playing ball on the beach.
    • George played his college ball at Stanford.
  • 14

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesAn object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game

  • 15

    hobbieslifestylesportsAn object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game

    • If you get to a million points, you get another ball.
  • 16

    ball-gamescricketgamesAn object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game

  • 17

    hobbieslifestylesportsAn object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game

    • After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno—Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut—nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.
    • Shetland increased the lead in the 22nd minute when Kirkness shot first time from a ball that was fired into the area from outside the 25-metre line.
  • 18

    hobbieslifestylesportsAn object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game

  • 19

    hobbieslifestylesportsAn object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game

  • 20

    vulgarslangA testicle.

    • Hitler has only got one ball, / Göring has two but very small, / Himmler is rather sim'lar, / But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.
  • 21

    vulgarslangA testicle.

    • That’s a load of balls, and you know it!
  • 22

    vulgarslangA testicle.

    • I doubt he’s got the balls to tell you off.
  • 23

    historicalmediaprintingpublishingA leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.

  • 24

    historicalfarrieryhobbieshorsesA large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.

    • The laxative alterative has not this advantage, the aloes, of which it is composed, being extremely bitter, and therefore requiring to be given in the form of a ball.
  • 25

    slangOne thousand US dollars.

    • I'ma let these niggas have it, go on stage and throw a forty ball
    • Forty ball all in these leather jeans Diamonds studs, I make a bum nigga think twice

ballverb詞源 1/bɔːl/

  • 1

    To form or wind into a ball.

    • to ball cotton
    • She balled her fists.
  • 2

    artscraftsengineeringTo heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

  • 3

    vulgarTo have sexual intercourse (with).

    • Max says it works both ways. “I mean if she comes in and tells me she wants to ball Don, maybe, I say ‘O.K., baby, it's your trip.’”
    • Jefferson Fuck Poland wrote of three other anti-free-sex influences: […]heroin use (“Junkies rarely ball, unless for cash to buy junk. Heroin provides an orgasmic feeling of its own while suppressing sexual desire”); […].
  • 4

    To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.

    • the horse balls
    • the snow balls
  • 5

    regionalslangTo be hip or cool.

  • 6

    To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Ellipsis of blackball).

    • This highlights the issue of toxic masculinity in fraternities: a pledge only becomes a man, or a brother, by enduring as much abuse as he can and by proving his competence with girls. If he cannot, he is not only "balled" but seen as a "faggot" (this is a term directly from the work).
    • All of these things are done by pledges in hopes of not getting 'balled' or kicked out.
  • 7

    slangTo play basketball.

    • fuck it, we ball
  • 8

    (slang) Used to indicate general perseverance.

另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To spend money extravagantly.

  • 10

    To punish by affixing a ball and chain.

    • any man refusing to do police duty will be punished by the sergts by balling him the rest of the day.
  • 11

    Of bees: to kill (a wasp) by surrounding it in large numbers so as to raise its body heat.

  • 12

    To operate (a vehicle) at high speed (whether balls-out, balls to the wall, or ballin' the jack, each of which comes ultimately from ball via a different route).

    • Near-synonym: haul ass
    • Hang back for a bit — that Peterbilt in the left lane is really ballin’ and I'd rather not be real close to him.

ballintj詞源 1/bɔːl/

  • 1

    hobbieslifestylesportsAn exclamation to inform players on an adjacent playing area that a loose ball from another game has entered their playing area; typically implies that play should be paused until the ball has been retrieved.

  • 2

    An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player.

    • A good tackle (and some bad ones) will bring a cry of "Ball!" from the crowd – a plea for a holding the ball free kick.

ballnoun詞源 2/bɔːl/

  • 1

    A formal dance.

    • We still have pictures from the ball we had in August 2008.
  • 2

    informalA very enjoyable time.

    • I had a ball at that concert.
  • 3

    A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.

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。