一壓就彎,而且不會斷
這一組裡有人(或有力量)在彎它,東西讓步,然後完好如初。
adjective · B1
Easy to bend: you can push or twist it into a curve without breaking it, and it does not fight back much.
可彎曲的、軟的
Picture something long that does not have to stay straight: press it and it curves, let go and it is fine. Every use of this word sits somewhere on that one picture — the thing that gives way in your hands, the body that folds, the road that is already curving, the bus with a hinge in its middle.
The word is bend plus the ending -y, which turns an action into a quality — so it means something like given to bending.
字源資料說 bendy 是 bend(彎)加上 -y。-y 的作用是把一個動作變成一種性質。可以想成:把「彎」這個動作黏在東西身上,變成「它就是很容易彎」。sleepy、chewy 都是同一條路做出來的字。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1184206236), etymology_text: "From bend + -y."
Two branches
一壓就彎,而且不會斷
這一組裡有人(或有力量)在彎它,東西讓步,然後完好如初。
adjective · B1
Easy to bend: you can push or twist it into a curve without breaking it, and it does not fight back much.
可彎曲的、軟的
本來就一直在轉
同樣是彎,但沒有人在彎它——它天生就是彎的,而且一路彎下去。
adjective · B1
Having many curves or turns along it — used about roads, paths, rivers and other long things that do not run straight.
彎彎曲曲的