喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a ball dropping onto hard ground: it hits, and instead of stopping it springs straight back up. 'Bounce' is that spring-back — contact with a surface that throws something back instead of swallowing it. The same springiness shows up as up-and-down motion, as a thing that gets returned to , and as lively energy in a person.

可以想成一顆球落到硬地上：碰到地面後不是停住，而是立刻彈回來。bounce 就是這個「彈回」的動作——東西碰到一個面…更多收起可以想成一顆球落到硬地上：碰到地面後不是停住，而是立刻彈回來。bounce 就是這個「彈回」的動作——東西碰到一個面，那個面不把它吞掉，反而把它推回去。從這個彈回的核心畫面，可以一路長出：反覆的上下跳動、被退回給原主的東西（支票、郵件），還有一個人身上那股蹦蹦跳跳的活力。

原始詞典資料41 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。

bounceverb/baʊns/

  • 1

    To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.

    • The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
  • 2

    To move quickly up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.

    • He bounces nervously on his chair.
    • The Black Cats contributed to their own downfall for the only goal when Titus Bramble, making his first appearance since Boxing Day, and Michael Turner, let Phil Jones' cross bounce across the six-yard box as Rooney tucked in at the back post.
  • 3

    To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.

    • He bounced the child on his knee.
    • The children were bouncing a ball against a wall.
  • 4

    To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) someone, in order to gain feedback.

    • I'm meeting Bob later to bounce some ideas off him about the new product range.
  • 5

    To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.

    • She bounced happily into the room.
    • Out bounced the mastiff.
  • 6

    To move rapidly (between).

    • “The Queen’s Justice” had some fantastic moments of wit and heart but the structure and pacing didn’t do it any favors. The first section of the episode mostly bounced between Jon Snow’s arrival at Dragonstone and Cersei Lannister burning through her enemies and giving nary a fuck.
  • 7

    informalTo be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.

    • We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced.
  • 8

    informalTo fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a cheque/check drawn on one's account).

    • He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.
另外 15 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangTo leave.

    • Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce.
    • I was definitely looking forward to getting me some more of Yasmere in the future, so I took a quick second to give her a last little bit of love before I bounced.
  • 10

    datedslangTo eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.

    • Nobody took umbrage and bounced me out of the Union for being a pro.
    • Anyone who gets bounced out of [this bar] is not just pushed onto the street — he is walked home, or put in a cab.
  • 11

    datedslangTo eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.

    • I met him back when he bounced at the bar where I worked.
  • 12

    slangTo have sexual intercourse.

  • 13

    To attack unexpectedly.

    • The squadron was bounced north of the town.
  • 14

    businesscomputingelectrical-engineeringTo turn power to (a device) off and back on; to reset; to reboot.

    • See if it helps to bounce the router.
  • 15

    To return undelivered.

    • What’s your new email address? The old one bounces.
    • The girl in the bar told me her address was thirsty@example.com, but my mail to that address was bounced back by the server.
  • 16

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.

    • The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.
  • 17

    hobbieslifestyleskydivingTo land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.

    • After the mid-air collision, his rig failed and he bounced.
  • 18

    entertainmentlifestylemusicTo mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.

    • Bounce tracks two and three to track four, then record the cowbell on track two.
  • 19

    engineeringentertainmentlifestyleTo render two or more tracks to computer storage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with further material added.

    • bouncing stems
  • 20

    archaicslangTo bully; to scold.

    • Would I had him here again, I would so bounce him, I would so thank his lordship for his lewd plot.
  • 21

    archaicslangTo boast; to bluster.

  • 22

    archaicTo strike or thump, so as to make a sudden noise upon rebound; to knock loudly.

    • Another bounces as hard as he can knock.
  • 23

    slanghobbieshorse-racinghorseracingTo race poorly after a successful race.

bouncenoun/baʊns/

  • 1

    A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.

    • Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.
  • 2

    A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.

  • 3

    An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.

  • 4

    A hypothetical event where a collapsing system, such as a universe in the Big Bounce theory, reaches a point of extreme density and then rebounds back into an expanding phase, essentially reversing the contraction due to quantum mechanical effects.

  • 5

    slangThe sack, dismissal.

    • Someone more clever than I said, "It's not the bounce that counts, it's the bounce back. "
    • Customers said I was a hoot; management gave me the bounce.
  • 6

    archaicA bang, boom.

    • I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.
  • 7

    archaicA drink based on brandy, cherry bounce.

    • A prologue of cherry bounce,—brandy,—preceded the entertainment, which was enlivened by hob-nobs and joyous toasts.
    • He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
  • 8

    archaicA heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.

    • The bounce burst ope the door.
另外 10 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    archaicBluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.

    • And, in fact, the whole story is a bounce of his own. For, in a most abusive letter which he wrote “to a learned person,” (meaning Wallis the mathematician,) he gives quite another account of the matter
  • 10

    Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.

  • 11

    A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.

  • 12

    slangDrugs.

  • 13

    slangSwagger.

  • 14

    slangA good beat in music.

  • 15

    slangA talent for leaping.

    • Them pro-ballers got bounce!
  • 16

    informalgovernmentpoliticsAn increase in popularity.

  • 17

    An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of two fences close together so that the horse cannot take a full stride between them, nor jump both at once.

  • 18

    slanghobbieshorse-racinghorseracingThe situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.

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。