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The whole physical form of a person or animal — head, trunk, arms, legs, all together as one solid mass. From this grow two directions: the body as a single whole/mass of stuff, and the 'main part' of anything (a trunk, a hull, the main text).

可以想成一個人或動物整副的身軀——頭、軀幹、手、腳全部合在一起的一團實體。從這裡長出兩個方向：一是把 body 當成…更多收起可以想成一個人或動物整副的身軀——頭、軀幹、手、腳全部合在一起的一團實體。從這裡長出兩個方向：一是把 body 當成「一整團、一整批」的整體；二是借它指任何東西「主要、最厚實的那一大塊」(軀幹、車身、正文)。

原始詞典資料30 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。

Bodyname

  • 1

    A surname transferred from the nickname.

Bodyname

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    archaicCorpus Christi College, Cambridge.

bodynoun/ˈbɒdi/

  • 1

    Physical frame.

    • I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
    • If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body? And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members, euery one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body.
  • 2

    Physical frame.

    • The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
  • 3

    Physical frame.

    • Her body was found at four o’clock, just two hours after the murder.
    • The bodies of 19-year-old best friends Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were returned to Australia on Tuesday night.
  • 4

    slangPhysical frame.

    • His gun had two bodies on it.
    • He caught a body and got forty years in prison.
  • 5

    Physical frame.

    • Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it […]
    • "Will ye giv a body a taste o' yer beer to thry?" sez Tom.
  • 6

    human-sciencessciencessocial-sciencePhysical frame.

    • the early modern English husband not only took control over his wife's property upon marriage, he also acquired property in her body.
    • This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.
  • 7

    Main section.

    • The boxer took a blow to the body.
  • 8

    Main section.

    • The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
    • The railless vehicles have been supplied by the Railless Electric Traction Company, of London, as contractors, to the joint specification of the general managers of the Leeds and Bradford Tramways. The bodies have all been constructed by Messrs. Hurst, Nelson and Company, of Motherwell.
另外 15 個記錄的用法
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    archaicMain section.

    • Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
  • 10

    Main section.

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    Main section.

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    computingengineeringmathematicsMain section.

    • In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
  • 13

    architectureMain section.

  • 14

    Coherent group.

    • I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
  • 15

    Coherent group.

    • The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
  • 16

    Coherent group.

    • We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
  • 17

    Material entity.

    • All bodies are held together by internal forces.
    • Arriving during late spring in the satellite's southern hemisphere, Voyager found the coldest body in the solar system, minus 235°C (-391°F).
  • 18

    Material entity.

    • The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.
    • We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
  • 19

    Material entity.

    • The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
    • "I’d Be Lost Without You" seems somewhat out of place from a vocal viewpoint — Lewis’s slightly reedy middle soprano is very expressive and absolutely true, but doesn’t have enough dark body to fully deal with the torchy melody.
  • 20

    Material entity.

    • Experimented with turning my hair up with cans. Rollers aren't large enough and leave a curl when you want body and just straightness.
  • 21

    Material entity.

    • The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
    • In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour […]
  • 22

    mediaprintingpublishingThe shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).

    • a nonpareil face on an agate body
    • The stemless notes could have been cast on a body as short as 4 mm but were probably cast on bodies of the standard 14 mm size for ease of composition.
  • 23

    geometrymathematicssciencesA three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

bodyverb/ˈbɒdi/

  • 1

    To give body or shape to something.

    • And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.
    • [A]s you stand on the steps of the Castle Green in this strange place, you feel quite floaty. This you are told is the scene of the Merthyr riots; and you feel still floatier as you body forth before your eyes a picture like the following— […]
  • 2

    To construct the bodywork of a car.

  • 3

    To embody.

    • I don’t say, one bodies the other / One’s spiritual truth; / But I do say it’s hard to lose either, / When you have both.
  • 4

    slangTo murder someone.

  • 5

    slangTo murder someone.

    • I keep getting bodied by kids half my age.

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。