喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold it: a thin flat piece with an edge. Hold a kitchen knife and look at the metal part — wide but almost no thickness, an edge that goes into things. English keeps that shape: whatever is thin, flat and edged can be called a blade, whether it cuts, pushes air, or just grows out of the ground.

可以想成一片又薄又平、帶著邊的東西。拿起菜刀看那塊金屬：面很寬，厚度幾乎沒有，邊緣可以切進東西裡。英文一直重複使用這…更多收起可以想成一片又薄又平、帶著邊的東西。拿起菜刀看那塊金屬：面很寬，厚度幾乎沒有，邊緣可以切進東西裡。英文一直重複使用這個形狀——只要是薄、平、有邊的，都可以叫 blade，不管它是拿來切、拿來推空氣，還是從地上長出來的。

From the picture

推動空氣或水的扁片

同樣是薄而寬的一片，但這次派上用場的不是邊，而是面：轉起來把空氣或水往後推，東西就往前走。

propeller blade · noun · B2

The wide, flat part of an object that pushes against air or water to make things move.

葉片／槳葉

細長扁平的形狀

這一支借的純粹是外形：又細又扁、微微彎曲的一片，跟切割沒有關係。

blade of grass · noun · B2

One single thin, flat leaf of grass.

一片草葉

Also in this word

knife blade · noun · B2

The flat, sharp part of a knife, sword, or tool that cuts.

刀刃

ice-skate blade · noun · B2

The thin metal part on the bottom of an ice skate that slides on the ice.

冰刀

原始詞典資料34 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。

Bladenoun

  • 1

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesSomeone connected with Sheffield United Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

bladenoun/bleɪd/

  • 1

    The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.

    • Sword. — The blade is straight, tapers gradually, is 32 9/16 inches long from shoulder to point, and is fullered on both sides, commencing 2 inches from the shoulder, to about 17 inches from the point, to a thickness of ·035 inch.
  • 2

    The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.

    • Paul: Give the Harkonnen a blade and let him stand forth. Shaddam IV: If Feyd wishes, he can meet you with my blade in his hand.
  • 3

    The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.

    • Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
  • 4

    The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.

  • 5

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesThe thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).

  • 6

    A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.

  • 7

    A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).

  • 8

    human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsThe part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.

另外 18 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    archaeologyhistoryhuman-sciencesA piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.

  • 10

    A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.

  • 11

    nauticalsailingtransportThe rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.

  • 12

    A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.

  • 13

    datedA dashing young man.

    • He saw a Turnkey in a trice / Unfetter a troublesome blade;
    • But very often blust'ring blades / Are Jerry Sneaks at home.
  • 14

    slangA homosexual, usually male.

  • 15

    slangAn area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.

  • 16

    Thin plate, foil.

  • 17

    artshobbieslifestyleOne of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.

  • 18

    architectureThe principal rafters of a roof.

  • 19

    biologynatural-sciencesThe four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.

  • 20

    climbinghobbieslifestyleSynonym of knifeblade.

  • 21

    mathematicssciencesAn exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)

  • 22

    The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.

  • 23

    informalathleticshobbieslifestyleAn artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.

  • 24

    athleticshobbieslifestyleA cleat on a shoe, particularly one that is longer and thinner than a stud.

    • They were 'Adidas Flanker' rugby shoes with six front and two heel studs; 'Puma King Pro' with four front and two heel studs; two 'Blades' boots, namely 'Mudrunner', with six front blades and four-crossed heel blades[…]
  • 25

    athleticshobbieslifestyleA football boot equipped with blade-type cleats.

    • Bruce Barry, principal lecturer in biomechanics at the institute, says: "I was very sceptical at first, but when I tested them, there was no doubt about it - you could see the players were faster in blades."
  • 26

    entertainmentlifestylemusicThe quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.

    • He wasn’t loud, but his voice had lots of blade.

bladeverb/bleɪd/

  • 1

    informalTo skate on rollerblades.

    • Want to go blading with me later in the park?
  • 2

    To furnish with a blade.

  • 3

    To put forth or have a blade.

    • As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed.
  • 4

    To stab with a blade

    • The gang member got bladed in a fight.
  • 5

    slanggovernmenthobbieslifestyleTo cut a person (usually oneself) so as to provoke bleeding.

    • Nowadays, blading happens on occasion in a televised match and more often on pay-per-view but the practice isn't used as much for several reasons, among them an increased awareness of the transmission of AIDS has made blading more dangerous.

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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。