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You can think of 'blood' as the warm red liquid running inside you that keeps you alive — and because it is literally what you are made of and what you pass on, the word spreads outward in two natural directions: inward to who you are (the family you came from, the gift that runs in your veins, the feelings that 'boil' or 'run cold' inside you), and outward to what costs life (killing, violence, the sweat-and-blood you pour into hard work). Almost every use is this one liquid, either standing for your living self or for life being spent.

可以把「blood」想成你體內那股溫熱的紅色液體,是它讓你活著。正因為血字面上就是「你由什麼構成、又把什麼傳下去」,更多收起可以把「blood」想成你體內那股溫熱的紅色液體,是它讓你活著。正因為血字面上就是「你由什麼構成、又把什麼傳下去」,這個字很自然往兩個方向擴散:往內,指向「你是誰」——你來自的家族、天生流在血裡的本事、在體內「沸騰」或「發冷」的情緒;往外,指向「以命為代價的事」——殺戮、暴力、以及你為一件難事拚上的「血汗」。幾乎每個用法都還是這同一股血,不是代表「活著的你」,就是代表「正在被耗掉的生命」。

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。

Bloodnoun

  • 1

    A member of the Los Angeles gang the Bloods, who typically wear red and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Crips.

    • My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say or write words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining c's in the word.

Bloodname

  • 1

    A surname.

bloodnoun/blʌd/

  • 1

    A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

    • Some insects are known for consuming blood.
    • Blood started to spurt out of his hand due to the wound.
  • 2

    A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. See blood relative, blood relation.

    • a friend of our own blood
    • to share the blood of Saxon royalty
  • 3

    A person or people related to one by birth; one's biological relative or relatives.

    • She may not be my blood, but we grew up together, and as far as I'm concerned she's my sister.
    • An' one time a little girl 'ud allus laugh an' grin, / An' make fun of ever' one, an' all her blood an' kin; / An' onc't when they was "company," an' ole folks was there, / She mocked 'em an' shocked 'em, an' said she didn't care!
  • 4

    historicalOne of the four humours in the human body.

  • 5

    The endometrial lining as it is shed in menstruation; menstrual fluid or period blood.

  • 6

    informalmedicinesciencesA blood test or blood sample.

    • When I got Bilbo to their surgery the vet took Bilbo in for tests. […] His bloods showed nothing wrong at all.
  • 7

    The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.

    • It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
    • Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
  • 8

    The juice of anything, especially if red.

    • He washed[…]his clothes in the blood of grapes.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A temper of mind; a disposition; a mood.

    • When thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth
    • Hath Cassius liu'd / To be but Mirth and Laughter to his Brutus, / When greefe and blood ill temper'd, vexeth him?
  • 10

    obsoleteA lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.

    • Seest thou not[…]how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
    • […] it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days […]
  • 11

    A blood horse, one of good pedigree.

  • 12

    Bloodshed.

    • They came looking for blood.
    • Our Father’s Death Would fill up all the Guilt of Civil War, And cloſe the Scene of Blood.
  • 13

    A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male.

  • 14

    slangLean, especially that is red.

bloodverb/blʌd/

  • 1

    To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

    • The French gentleman and Mr Adderly, at the desire of their commanding officer, had raised up the body of Jones, but as they could perceive but little (if any) sign of life in him, they again let him fall, Adderly damning him for having blooded his wastecoat […]
  • 2

    historicalmedicinesciencesTo let blood (from); to bleed.

    • On Sᵗ Stephens day the Farrier came constantly and blouded all the Cart-horses.
    • Mr Western, who imputed these symptoms in his daughter to her fall, advised her to be presently blooded by way of prevention.
  • 3

    To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.

    • Roberts-Smith and his commander had made it clear the "rookie" needed to kill someone to truly become part of the squadron. They called it a "blooding". The assault patrols cleared the compound known as Whiskey 108 and declared it secure. An opportunity for a blooding emerged when a hidden tunnel was discovered in a courtyard. Inside, two Afghan men were found hiding.
  • 4

    obsoleteTo make eager for bloodshed or combat; to incite or enrage against.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。