喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a thin rubber bag going from a flat scrap in your fingers to a taut round thing bigger than your head — and doing it in a few breaths. Two things are in that picture: the round shape, and the speed of the swelling. Different uses of balloon pick up one or the other.

可以想成手指間一小片扁扁的橡膠，吹幾口氣之後，變成比頭還大、繃得緊緊的一顆圓球。這個畫面裡其實有兩件事：一個是那個圓…更多收起可以想成手指間一小片扁扁的橡膠，吹幾口氣之後，變成比頭還大、繃得緊緊的一顆圓球。這個畫面裡其實有兩件事：一個是那個圓鼓鼓的形狀，一個是「一下子就脹起來」的速度。balloon 的各種用法，各自抓走其中一樣。

From the picture

氣球的那個形狀

只借走形狀：圓鼓鼓、外面一圈、裡面裝著東西的那個輪廓。

speech balloon · noun · A2

The round shape drawn around the words a character says in a cartoon.

對話框；話泡泡

一下子脹大起來

這一族借走的是速度：吹氣球那幾秒裡「小變大」的那種爆發感，被拿來講各式各樣突然變大的東西。

swell, inflate · verb · A2

To get bigger and rounder, often as air or wind fills something.

鼓起；脹圓

氣球升空的那一刻

這裡的氣球不是被吹大，而是被放上天：它成了一個信號，標記事情開始的那一秒。

the balloon goes up · noun · B1

In the phrase "the balloon goes up": the moment when a situation suddenly starts to become really bad or serious.

（事態）爆發；出大事

Also in this word

toy balloon · noun · A1

A bright, thin rubber bag that you fill with air or light gas and use as a toy or party decoration.

氣球

hot air balloon · noun · A2

A large bag of strong light cloth filled with gas or hot air so it can float, with a basket below for people.

熱氣球

原始詞典資料20 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。

balloonnoun/bəˈluːn/

  • 1

    An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.

  • 2

    Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.

  • 3

    Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.

    • We immediately threw out all the little things we had with us, ſuch as biſcuits, apples, &c. and after that one of our oars or wings; but ſtill deſcending, we caſt away the other wing, and then the governail ; having likewiſe had the precaution, for fear of accidents, while the Balloon was filling, partly to looſen and make it go eaſy, I now ſucceeded in attempting to reach without the Car, and unſcrewing the moulinet, with all its apparatus; I likewiſe caſt that into the ſea.
  • 4

    medicinesciencesA sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.

  • 5

    A speech bubble.

  • 6

    A wide rounded glass with a stem and foot, used for wine, brandy, etc.

  • 7

    architectureA ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.

    • the balloon of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London
  • 8

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A bomb or shell.

  • 10

    obsoleteA game played with a large inflated ball.

  • 11

    artscraftsengravingThe outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

  • 12

    slangA woman's breast.

  • 13

    slangA small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.

    • And all I had to do in return was take a drive up to Ricardo's place on the way home and then a pretty edgy one back to Rondebosch with a balloon of coke sandwiched between two pairs of underpants.
  • 14

    businessfinanceSynonym of balloon payment.

    • The purpose of the balloon is to reduce the periodic payment required during the life of the financing period.

balloonverb/bəˈluːn/

  • 1

    To increase or expand rapidly.

    • His stomach ballooned from eating such a large meal.
    • Prices will balloon if we don't act quickly.
  • 2

    To go up or voyage in a balloon.

  • 3

    To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

  • 4

    To inflate like a balloon.

    • A puff of wind from the open door caught and ballooned the scanties; off they sailed, out the window billowing into freedom.
  • 5

    hobbieslifestylesportsTo strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.

    • After four minutes, leading goalscorer Haworth slid in but ballooned the ball over from six yards, and Hume then outran the defence to get to the by-line, but he could only hit his cross straight out.
  • 6

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationOf an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.

    • The plane ballooned into the air about 20 feet, banging down again for another good-sized hop.

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。