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Picture something that used to be straight and has been forced out of line — a nail hit off-centre, a back leaning forward. Almost every other use is that same off-straight shape moved somewhere you cannot see it: a mind leaning hard in one direction, or a person who is not straight in how they handle money.

可以想成一根本來筆直的東西被外力壓出了角度：釘子被敲歪、背彎了下去、鐵絲折成一個彎。這個字其他的用法，幾乎都是把這個…更多收起可以想成一根本來筆直的東西被外力壓出了角度：釘子被敲歪、背彎了下去、鐵絲折成一個彎。這個字其他的用法，幾乎都是把這個「不再是直的」形狀搬到看不見的地方——心整個往一個方向彎過去，或是一個人做事不走直線。

原始詞典資料23 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。

Bentname

  • 1

    A surname

bentadj詞源 1/bɛnt/

  • 1

    Folded or dented out of its usual shape.

  • 2

    Corrupt, dishonest.

  • 3

    derogatoryHomosexual.

    • Asked bluntly by Julie Webb of the NME whether he was “bent” in December 1974, Freddie answered evasively: “You're a crafty cow. […]”
  • 4

    Determined or insistent; inclined, set.

    • He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
    • They were bent on mischief.
  • 5

    Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.

    • Near-synonym: butthurt
    • She was bent about "certain kinds of people" having civil rights; she wanted to roll those back.
  • 6

    leading a life of crime.

  • 7

    slangball-gamesgameshobbiesInaccurately aimed.

    • That shot was so bent it left the pitch.
  • 8

    Suffering from the bends.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangHigh from both marijuana and alcohol.

    • Man, I am so bent right now!

bentnoun詞源 1/bɛnt/

  • 1

    An inclination or talent.

    • He had a natural bent for painting.
    • the top of one's bent
  • 2

    A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.

    • His mind was of a technical bent.
  • 3

    The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.

    • the bent of a bow
    • the force they have in the discharge , according to several bents
  • 4

    A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

    • Beneath the lowering brow, and on a bent, / The temple stood of Mars armipotent
  • 5

    Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.

    • bents and turns of the matter
  • 6

    businesscarpentryconstructionA transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.

  • 7

    businesscarpentryconstructionA transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.

  • 8

    Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

    • the full bent and stress of the soul

bentnoun詞源 2/bɛnt/

  • 1

    Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.

    • His spear a bent, both stiff and strong.
    • Gunga Dass gave me a double handful of dried bents which I thrust down the mouth of the lair to the right of his, and followed myself, feet foremost [...].
  • 2

    Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).

  • 3

    A grassy area, grassland.

    • c. 1500, The Ballad of Chevy Chase Bowmen bickered upon the bent.
  • 4

    Old dried stalks of grasses.

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 Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。