- 1（尤指嬰兒）健壯活潑的、精力充沛的
When bouncing describes a person — especially a baby — it means they look healthy, strong, and full of life, not that they are jumping up and down. ‘A bouncing baby boy’ is the set phrase you will hear again and again: a , energetic infant, the opposite of a one. Adults can be bouncing too, in a warm, slightly old-fashioned way: bouncing with health. Though actually, the same spelling is also just the ordinary -ing form of the verb bounce (the ball is bouncing). The sentence tells you which one you have. The ‘healthy’ meaning is an adjective with a folksy, cheerful feel — the kind of thing a says, not a line on a hospital chart.
From the word’s history
bounce + -ing; bounce is from Middle English bounsen 'to beat, thump', of uncertain origin, perhaps imitative.
bounce 加 -ing；bounce 源自中古英文，來源不明。
組成bounce + -ing. Here it is not ‘in the middle of bouncing’ but an adjective that grew from that verb: someone so full of life they seem to bounce.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
bouncingadj/ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/
- 1
Healthy; vigorous.
- a bouncing baby girl
- By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child. But she had the dismal precocity of poverty.
- 2
obsoleteinformalExcessively big; whopping.
- a bouncing reckoning
bouncingnoun/ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/
- 1
The act of something that bounces.
- […] this book, with its multiple trajectories and frequently violent juxtapositions, is the record, in many senses, of those bouncings.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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