核心畫面

Picture a hollow metal cup, turned mouth-down, that rings out when it is struck or swung. That ringing hollow shape is the heart of bell — everything else grows from either its sound or its shape.

可以想成:一個中空的金屬杯、杯口朝下,一敲或一搖就發出響亮的聲音。那個會響的中空形狀就是 bell 的核心——其他用更多收起可以想成:一個中空的金屬杯、杯口朝下,一敲或一搖就發出響亮的聲音。那個會響的中空形狀就是 bell 的核心——其他用法不是從它的「聲音」長出來,就是從它的「形狀」長出來。

From the word’s history

The noun is possibly linked to Old English bellan 'to roar, make a loud sound' (the same root behind 'bellow') — though the connection is not certain. If so, a bell is named for the loud sound it throws out, which fits its ringing heart.

這個名詞可能和古英語 bellan「吼叫、發出巨響」有關(bellow 也出自同一個根),不過這層關聯並不確定。若真是如此,bell 是以它拋出的響亮聲音命名的,正好對上它「會響」的核心。

etymonline.com/word/bell

Three branches

會響的鐘與鈴

核心這一家:那個會發出響聲的金屬物,以及專門拿它的聲音來當信號的器材。重點都在「一動就響、用聲音叫人注意」。

bell (cup-shaped object) · noun · B1

A hollow metal object shaped like a cup that rings when it moves or is shaken.

鐘 / 鈴鐺

打一通電話(英式口語)

從「鈴響」借來的口語:電話一撥,對方那頭就響起鈴聲,所以 give someone a bell 就成了「打給某人」。

phone someone (informal) · noun · B1

To telephone someone. (British and informal)

打電話

鐘的形狀

撇開聲音,只借鐘的外形:上窄下寬、開口圓圓外張的輪廓。凡是長成這個樣子的東西,都可以叫 bell。

bell-shaped thing · noun · B1

A thing that has the wide, rounded shape of a bell.

鐘形物

原始詞典資料38 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。

Bellname/bɛl/

  • 1

    A surname of Scottish and northern English origin for a bell ringer, bellmaker, or from someone who lived "at the Bell (inn)."

    • “As far as I’m concerned, wives come and go, but Weezers are forever. And if Rivers [Cuomo] doesn’t realize that, then maybe he just doesn’t understand what being a Weezer is all about.” At press time, an increasingly frustrated Bell had reportedly announced plans to split off from the group and pursue projects as a solo Weezer.
  • 2

    The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.)

  • 3

    A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.

  • 4

    A female given name, variant of Belle; mostly used as a middle name in the 19th century.

    • Here, Isabel, here is the good gentleman’s handkerchief; keep it for him now, till he comes to see little Bell again.
    • […] I found that her Christian name was Isabella, which they shortened into Bell, and that the name of the deceased non-commissioned officer was Tott. Being the kind of neat little woman it was natural to make a toy of—I never saw a woman so like a toy in my life—she had got the plaything name of Belltott. In short, she had no other name on the island.
  • 5

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 6

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 7

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 8

    A number of places in the United States:

另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 10

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 11

    A village in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

  • 12

    A village in the City of Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia.

  • 13

    A rural town in Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.

  • 14

    A municipality of Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

  • 15

    A municipality of Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Bellnoun/bɛl/

  • 1

    a telephone utility; a Baby Bell.

bellnoun詞源 1/bɛl/

  • 1

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.

    • HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
    • The bell which called the pupils to their lessons can still be seen on the roof.
  • 2

    An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.

  • 3

    The sounding of a bell as a signal.

    • Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth.
  • 4

    informalA telephone call.

    • I’ll give you a bell later.
  • 5

    A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.

  • 6

    entertainmentlifestylemusicThe flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.

  • 7

    nauticaltransportAny of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)

  • 8

    The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.

另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    computingengineeringmathematicsThe bell character.

  • 10

    Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.

    • In a cowslip's bell I lie.
  • 11

    architectureThe part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.

  • 12

    The rounded upper part of a jellyfish.

  • 13

    archaicA bubble.

    • He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neither boil nor gurgle on the water, nor even a bell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk.

bellverb詞源 1/bɛl/

  • 1

    To attach a bell to.

    • Who will bell the cat?
  • 2

    To shape so that it flares out like a bell.

    • to bell a tube
  • 3

    slangTo telephone.

    • "Vinny, you tosser, it's Keith. I thought you were back today. I'm in town. Bell us on the mobile.
  • 4

    To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.

    • Hops bell.
  • 5

    To ring a bell.

    • So that the Euston signalman may be advised of approaching trains as soon as possible, the Camden signalman sets up and transmits the description of each train immediately after it is belled to him.

bellverb詞源 2/bɛl/

  • 1

    To bellow or roar.

    • This animal is said to harbour in the place where he resides. When he cries, he is said to bell; the print of his hoof is called the slot; his tail is called the single; his excrement the fumet; his horns are called his head [...].
    • As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled / Once, twice and again!
  • 2

    To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

    • Their leaders bell their bleating tunes In doleful sound.

bellnoun詞源 2/bɛl/

  • 1

    The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.

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。