喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture bite as teeth closing hard on something: jaws come together and clamp, cut, or grip. Everything else in this word grows out of that one moment of teeth pressing in and taking hold.

可以想成「上下牙用力合起來，夾住、咬斷或咬住某個東西」的那一瞬間。整個 bite 都是從這個畫面長出來的：牙齒壓下去…更多收起可以想成「上下牙用力合起來，夾住、咬斷或咬住某個東西」的那一瞬間。整個 bite 都是從這個畫面長出來的：牙齒壓下去、咬進去、抓牢不放。其他所有意思，無論是被蟲叮、輪胎咬住地面、寒風刺骨，都可以想成這個「夾住、咬進去」的動作被借去用在別的地方。

原始詞典資料35 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。

biteverb/baɪt/

  • 1

    To cut into something by clamping the teeth.

    • As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
  • 2

    To hold something by clamping one's teeth.

  • 3

    To attack with the teeth.

    • That dog is about to bite!
  • 4

    To behave aggressively; to reject advances.

    • If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.
  • 5

    To take hold; to establish firm contact with.

    • I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.
  • 6

    To have significant effect, often negative.

    • For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.
  • 7

    To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.

    • Are the fish biting today?
  • 8

    To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.

    • I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?
另外 10 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To sting.

    • These mosquitoes are really biting today!
  • 10

    To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.

    • It bites like pepper or mustard.
  • 11

    To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

    • Pepper bites the mouth.
    • […]froſts doe bite the Meads[…]
  • 12

    To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

    • At the laſt it [wine] biteth like a ſerpent, and ſtingeth like ‖ an adder.
  • 13

    To take or keep a firm hold.

    • The anchor bites.
  • 14

    To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.

    • The anchor bites the ground.
    • […]the last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, and it now turned and turned with nothing to bite[…]
  • 15

    slangTo lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.

    • This music really bites.
  • 16

    vulgarinformalTo perform oral sex on. Used in invective.

    • You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.
  • 17

    slangTo plagiarize, to imitate.

    • He always be biting my moves.
  • 18

    obsoleteslangTo deceive or defraud; to take in.

bitenoun/baɪt/

  • 1

    The act of biting.

    • […]I have knowne a very good Fiſher angle diligently four or ſix hours in a day, for three or four dayes together for a River Carp, and not have a bite[…]
    • Now trust me when I tell you, young lady, teeth are something you want to take care of. They’re these rare white things that give us pleasure throughout our life. And give us bite. Our inheritance. Our means of survival. Our right to rule. Their enamel is the front line. And that line needs to be won every day.
  • 2

    The wound left behind after having been bitten.

    • That snake bite really hurts!
  • 3

    The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.

    • After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
  • 4

    A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.

    • There were only a few bites left on the plate.
    • Not a soul in Corlaix will dare give us bite, sup, or shelter; and we shall die starved in a ditch, all four of us—that much we are our own, but in all else we are Monseigneur’s; all else, I say, all—all.
  • 5

    slangSomething unpleasant.

    • In February of this year, 9to5 was forced to lay off four of its paid staff, and began to feel the bite of its high-rent downtown office space.
  • 6

    slangAn act of plagiarism.

    • That song is a bite of my song!
  • 7

    A small meal or snack.

    • a bite to eat
    • I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
  • 8

    incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.

另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Aggression.

    • Kathy Santen is full of bite as the bizarrely seduced Lady Anne, although her exaggerated diction is a bit too snappishly Shakespearean.
    • In Tarabai’s text this exposure is direct, unusually blunt, full of bite and ridicule, and highly polemical.
  • 10

    The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

  • 11

    datedA cheat; a trick; a fraud.

    • The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching.
  • 12

    datedslangA sharper; one who cheats.

    • [I]t was conjectured, that Peregrine was a bite from the beginning, who had found credit on account of his effrontery and appearance, and impoſed himſelf upon the town as a young gentleman of fortune.
    • So he went home cursing the Yorkshire bites, and swearing there was no living among them […]
  • 13

    mediaprintingpublishingA blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

  • 14

    slangA cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.

    • I know three Americans who are running a bar. The cops come in all the time for a bite.
  • 15

    ball-gamescricketgamesThe turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.

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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。