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Picture the lowest part of anything — the floor of it, the part everything else sits on top of. From that single 'lowest part' the word spreads to surfaces (the , the inside floor, the ), to people and ranks (the lowest place in a list, the part you sit on), to the far end of a road, and finally to the deepest layer of a thing — the very base where the real cause sits.

可以想成任何東西「最下面的那一塊」——它的底，是其他部分壓在上面的那一層。整個 bottom 都從這個「最低處」散開…更多收起可以想成任何東西「最下面的那一塊」——它的底，是其他部分壓在上面的那一層。整個 bottom 都從這個「最低處」散開：往表面走，變成底面、容器內底、水底；往人和排名走，變成名次最後、身體坐的那部分；往遠處走，變成路的盡頭；最後往深處走，變成一件事最底層的東西——真正的原因就坐在那個底上。

原始詞典資料39 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。

Bottomname

  • 1

    A surname.

bottomnoun/ˈbɒt.əm/

  • 1

    The lowest part of anything.

    • barrels with the bottoms knocked out
    • a great ship’s kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out
  • 2

    The lowest part of anything.

    • The Red Sox are at the bottom again.
  • 3

    businessclothingfashionThe lowest part of anything.

    • There’s a hole in her pyjama bottoms.
  • 4

    The lowest part of anything.

    • In Ireland, where 14.5% of the population are jobless, emigration has climbed steadily since 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the Irish housing market. In the 12 months to April this year, 40,200 Irish passport-holders left, up from 27,700 the previous year, according to the central statistics office. Irish nationals were by far the largest constituent group among emigrants, at almost 53%.
  • 5

    The lowest part of anything.

  • 6

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe lowest part of anything.

    • bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs
  • 7

    entertainmentlifestylemusicThe lowest part of anything.

    • a soda and a bottom of brandy
  • 8

    agriculturebusinesslifestyleThe lowest part of anything.

    • single-bottom plow
    • three-bottom plow
另外 16 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    The remotest or innermost part of something.

    • Near-synonym: fundus (anatomical)
    • There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.
  • 10

    The fundamental part; a basic aspect.

    • get to the bottom of it
    • Thereupon Billali did a curious thing. Down he went, that venerable-looking old gentleman - for Billali is a gentleman at the bottom - down on to his hands and knees, and in this undignified position, with his long white beard trailing on the ground, he began to creep into the apartment beyond.
  • 11

    Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.

    • Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?
    • The horses staled in a small brook that runs in a bottom, betwixt two hills.
  • 12

    Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.

  • 13

    The buttocks or anus.

    • Calvin, if you shoot that paper clip at me, I'll get your bottom hauled to the principal's office so fast you'll think you were in a time warp!!
  • 14

    The bed of a body of water.

  • 15

    An abyss.

    • In the Carpathian Bottom makes abode / The Shepherd of the Seas, a Prophet and a God
  • 16

    nauticaltransportA cargo vessel, a ship.

    • We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; [...]
  • 17

    nauticaltransportCertain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.

    • My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
    • Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped.
  • 18

    slangA person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.

    • James and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.
  • 19

    slangA person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.

    • Since what I wanted to do was be a bottom, a masochist, I had to learn that you could do it and be safe, that you could do it and not sign your life away, that you could do it by agreement, and that it was still fun.
  • 20

    slangCharacter, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.

    • lack bottom
  • 21

    datedPower of endurance.

    • This was why Dee had always ridden a buckskin; a man following his kind of trails needed a horse with bottom, and a line-back like this one never wore out.
  • 22

    A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

    • the [silk]worms will fasten themselves, and make their bottoms, which in about fourteen days are finished.
  • 23

    raregovernmentheraldryhobbiesA trundle or spindle of thread.

    • Edward Hoby of Bisham in Berkshire, Esq; Or, a Fess, Sable, between three Hobby-Hawks, proper; otherwise, Azure, three Bottoms in Fess, Gules.
    • BOTTOM, a trundle or quill of gold thread. See TRUNDLE. Argent three bottoms, in fess gules, the thread or; name, Hoby, of Badland.
  • 24

    obsoleteDregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

bottomverb/ˈbɒt.əm/

  • 1

    To furnish (something) with a bottom.

    • to bottom a chair
  • 2

    To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).

    • We shall bid that thoughtful waiter place beside him, near and handy, / Large supplies of soda water, tumblers bottomed well with brandy, […]
  • 3

    obsoleteTo wind (like a ball of thread etc.).

    • As you vnwinde her loue from him, / Lest it should rauel and be good to none, / You must prouide to bottome it on me.
  • 4

    To establish or found (something) on or upon.

    • But an absurd opinion concerning the king’s hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy.
    • those false and deceiving grounds upon which many bottom their eternal state
  • 5

    To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.

    • My first night in America was spent in a motel with plywood over its windows, its pool bottomed with garbage sacks.
  • 6

    obsoleteTo be based or grounded.

    • c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms'.
  • 7

    engineeringmechanical-engineeringmechanicsTo reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.

    • allowance at the bottom of blind bores for the chamfered tip of the reamer will obviate additional operations with shouldering or bottoming reamers to completely finish the entire length of a hole.
  • 8

    To reach the bottom of something.

    • Squeaker's dog sniffed and barked joyfully around them till his licking efforts to bottom a salmon tin sent him careering in a muzzled frenzy, that caused the younger woman's thick lips to part grinningly till he came too close.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To fall to the lowest point.

    • The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index bottomed on October 24.
  • 10

    datedBDSMlifestylesexualityTo be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.

  • 11

    To take on the receptive role during intercourse.

    • I've never bottomed in my life.
    • Daw hadn’t bottomed in a long time. He hadn’t had sex in a year.

bottomadj/ˈbɒt.əm/

  • 1

    The lowest or last place or position.

    • Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
  • 2

    Relating to the genitals.

    • bottom dysphoria
    • bottom surgery

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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。