核心畫面
Start with the literal picture: a cut, and blood leaving the body — something that should stay inside is going out, and it keeps going out until someone stops it. Almost every other use of bleed borrows that shape: a system that is supposed to hold something (blood, money, air, colour) is losing it, steadily, through a place where it escapes.
可以先抓住最實在的畫面:割了一道口子,血往外流——本來應該待在身體裡的東西跑出去了,而且不去止它就會一直流。blee…更多收起
可以先抓住最實在的畫面:割了一道口子,血往外流——本來應該待在身體裡的東西跑出去了,而且不去止它就會一直流。bleed 其他的用法幾乎都借用這個形狀:某個本來該把東西留住的系統(身體、公司、水管、一塊布),正在從某個出口持續地失去它。差別只在流出去的是血、是錢、是空氣,還是顏色。原始詞典資料22 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。
bleedverb/ˈbliːd/
- 1
To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
- If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.
- 2
To menstruate.
- You haven't bled. It's been over a month since your arrival, and you haven't bled.
- 3
To let or draw blood from.
- "What did they die of?" I asked. "Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died." "He bled and purged babies?" "They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they ... they died anyway."
- 4
To take large amounts of money from.
- 5
To steadily lose (something vital).
- The company was bleeding talent.
- 6
To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
- Ink traps counteract bleeding.
- The ink bled only a little; if one raised the index card to one’s eye, it was possible to see the microscopic wisps and flicks seep out from the intended lines and curves out into the paper’s grain.
- 7
To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
- 8
To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
- At low engine speeds, valves open to bleed some of the highly-compressed air from the later compressor stages, helping to prevent engine surging.
- High-pressure air bled from the APU is used to spin up the engines and run the APU generator and hydraulic pump, and can also be used to pressurise the cabin if necessary.
另外 7 個記錄的用法
- 9
obsoleteTo bleed on; to make bloody.
- 10
To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
- He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.
- 11
To lose sap, gum, or juice.
- A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
- 12
To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
- For me the balm shall bleed.
- 13
human-scienceslinguisticsphonologyTo destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
- Labialization bleeds palatalization.
- 14
advertisingbusinessmarketingTo (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
- Full-page and double-page colour advertisements in the Sunday colour magazines usually bleed off the page' (or are 'bled to the margin'), […]
- Too, bleeding beyond margins provides editors with several picas of space for more layout.
- 15
businessfinanceTo lose money.
- Most of the sectors are bleeding, particularly the resources sector.
bleednoun/ˈbliːd/
- 1
An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
- 2
aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
- When taking off at high altitude or at near-maximum weight, the bleeds have to be turned off temporarily, as they decrease engine power somewhat.
- 3
mediaprintingpublishingA narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
- 4
broadcastingmediatelevisionA margin left at the edges of a shot to allow for the picture being cropped when it arrives at viewers' screens.
- 5
The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- 6
The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
- 7
The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.
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。