喜樂美語

核心畫面

The darkest colour there is — the colour of coal or the night sky, the colour you get where there is no light.

可以想成最深、最暗的那個顏色：煤炭、深夜天空的顏色，也是完全沒有光時眼前的那一片。black 的核心畫面可以想成這個…更多收起可以想成最深、最暗的那個顏色：煤炭、深夜天空的顏色，也是完全沒有光時眼前的那一片。black 的核心畫面可以想成這個「最深的黑」。從這裡同時長出兩條線：一條是「沒有光、看不見」的暗，一條是黑色在文化裡帶的「壞、不祥、絕望」的聯想。膚色、咖啡不加奶、帳戶有錢等用法，也都回到「這東西是黑的」這個最直接的觀察。

原始詞典資料51 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。

Blackname詞源 1

  • 1

    A surname transferred from the nickname.

  • 2

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 3

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 4

    A number of places in the United States:

  • 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:

Blacknoun詞源 2

  • 1

    board-gameschessgamesThe player moving the black pieces.

    • Unless the arbiter decides otherwise, ranks from White to Black shall be given the German numbers.

blackadj/blæk/

  • 1

    Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.

    • The items around him were black in colour.
    • The scandal of a lie is in a manner lost and annihilated when diffused among several thousands; as a drop of the blackest tincture wears away and vanishes when mixed and confused in a considerable body of water; the blot is still in it, but is not able to discover itself.
  • 2

    Without light.

  • 3

    Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc.) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)

    • Somebody tell me, what can I do / Something is holding me back / Is it because I'm black?
    • I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States.
  • 4

    Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc.) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)

  • 5

    historicalDesignated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).

    • black drinking fountain; black hospital
  • 6

    card-gamesgamesOf the spades or clubs suits.

    • I was dealt two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.
  • 7

    Bad; evil; ill-omened.

    • black magic
    • […] what a black day would that be, when the Ordinances of Jesus Christ should as it were be excommunicated, and cast out of the Church of Christ.
  • 8

    Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.

    • He shot her a black look.
    • The lassie had grace given her to refuse, but with a woeful heart, and Heriotside rode off in black discontent, leaving poor Ailie to sigh her love. He came back the next day and the next, but aye he got the same answer.
另外 14 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.

    • Foodstuffs were rationed and, as in other countries in a similar situation, the black market was flourishing.
  • 10

    Foul; dirty, soiled.

    • Then trip him, that his heeles may kicke at Heauen, / And that his Soule may be as damn'd aud blacke / As Hell, whereto it goes.
  • 11

    informalOvercrowded.

  • 12

    Without any cream, milk, or creamer.

    • Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.
  • 13

    board-gameschessgamesOf or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess, the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).

    • The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.
    • Consequently, in the initial position the white pieces and pawns are placed on the first and second ranks; the black pieces and pawns on the eighth and seventh ranks.
  • 14

    mediapublishingtypographySaid of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color.

    • Compare two Unicode symbols: ☞ (“WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX”); ☛ (“BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX”).
  • 15

    governmentpoliticsOf or pertaining to anarchism; anarchist.

  • 16

    governmentpoliticsRelated to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

    • After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.
  • 17

    Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.

    • 5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.
    • black operations/black ops; black room; black site
  • 18

    Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.

    • Pope Joan, who once occupied the throne of the Vatican, was reputed to be the blackest sorcerer of them all.
    • But a hel-rúne was one who knew secret black knowledge – and the association of hell with the dead shows that the gloss in O.H.G. 'necromancia' is very close.
  • 19

    derogatoryProtestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)

    • the Black North
    • the Royal Black Institution
  • 20

    Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).

    • the black knight; black bile
  • 21

    biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyHaving one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).

    • black birch; black locust; black rhino
  • 22

    Sullen and solemn; bad-tempered and unhappy.

    • They gave up trying to talk to me. Ever since I gave them that big scolding. But every time they see me, all face black black.

blacknoun/blæk/

  • 1

    The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.

    • Black is the badge of hell, / The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.
    • CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. This four component color system is standard for most types of color printing, since black is an ink color in printing but is simply the absence of color in video.
  • 2

    A black dye or pigment.

  • 3

    A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.

  • 4

    Black cloth hung up at funerals.

    • Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.
  • 5

    offensiveA member or descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.

    • "How! They surely cannot pretend that the black is an Englishman?" "There are all kinds of Englishmen, black and white, when seamen grow scarce. […]"
    • But presently the negro seized the Hindoo by the throat; the Hindoo just pricked him in the arm with his knife, and the next moment his own head was driven against the side of the cabin with a stunning crack[…]The cabin was now full, and Sharpe was for putting both the blacks in irons.
  • 6

    informalBlackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.

    • black don't crack
  • 7

    ball-gamesbilliardsgamesThe black ball.

  • 8

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe edge of home plate.

另外 8 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.

  • 10

    informalBlackcurrant syrup or crème de cassis used for cocktails.

    • Pernod and black; snakebite and black; cider and black
  • 11

    board-gameschessgamesThe person playing with the black set of pieces.

    • At this point black makes a disastrous move.
    • 1...Qd3 2 Ne1 Nd2! wins since 3 Nxd3 Rxf1 mate while 3 Qxc7+ Kg6 only delays the end. The best White can do is 3 Qc3+ Qxc3 4 Rxc3 Rxe1 when Black also wins the Bf1 and will be two pieces up.
  • 12

    Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.

    • the black or sight of the eye
  • 13

    obsoleteA stain; a spot.

    • defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust
  • 14

    A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.

  • 15

    slangMarijuana.

    • He pulled on the black, the tip of the filter hot and malleable between his lips, and felt a cool tingling coat the simmer in his chest and begin to eat away at it in small bites.
  • 16

    firefightinggovernmentThe blackened, burned-out area at the centre of a fire.

    • The black is always the safest place for a firefighter.
    • The black is a safe zone for retreating firefighters. It is an area already burned out by a fire without the raw or dead fuels needed for a fire to feed on.

blackverb/blæk/

  • 1

    To make black; to blacken.

    • "I don't want to fight; but you are a mean, dirty blackguard, or you wouldn't have treated a girl like that," replied Tommy, standing as stiff as a stake before the bully. "Say that again, and I'll black your eye for you."
    • Ted, you can black your face, and dye your hair, and squint, and some fine day, sooner or later, somebody'll come along and blab the whole thing.
  • 2

    To apply blacking to (something).

    • […] he must catch, curry, and saddle his own horse; he must black his own brogans (for he will not be able to buy boots).
    • But in a moment he went to Greenidge's bedside, and said, shyly, in a low voice, "Shall I black your boots for you?"
  • 3

    To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

    • The plants were blacked by the Transport and General Workers' Union and a consumer boycott was organised; both activities contributed to what the union saw as a victory.

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。