泡泡本身:看得見的,和會破的
這一支貼著字面:bubble + -y = 有泡泡的。分成兩面——真的看得到泡泡,以及拿泡泡「外大內空」的性質來作判斷。
adjective · B1
Full of small bubbles, or making a lot of them. Used about drinks, water, and mixtures such as soap or beaten egg white.
冒泡的;有氣泡的
One way to hold this word: a glass just poured, with small bubbles climbing up the side and never quite stopping. Two things about that glass matter, and English uses both. The rising never stops — so a person can be bubbly, with that keeps coming up. And a bubble is big on the outside and empty inside, ready to go at a touch — so a market can be bubbly, priced high on nothing much. The drink named bubbly sits right in the middle: it is called after the very thing you are looking at.
The source gives the make-up of the word plainly: bubble plus the adjective ending -y. So the literal meaning is 'having bubbles', and every other use in this entry can be read as that picture put to work somewhere else.
資料直接寫出了這個字的組成:bubble 加上形容詞字尾 -y。所以它字面就是「有泡泡的」。這個條目裡其他的用法,都可以想成是把同一個畫面搬到別的地方去用。
Packet evidence: Wiktionary entry 'bubbly', etymology_text 'From bubble + -y.' (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:465694374).
Three branches
泡泡本身:看得見的,和會破的
這一支貼著字面:bubble + -y = 有泡泡的。分成兩面——真的看得到泡泡,以及拿泡泡「外大內空」的性質來作判斷。
adjective · B1
Full of small bubbles, or making a lot of them. Used about drinks, water, and mixtures such as soap or beaten egg white.
冒泡的;有氣泡的
停不下來的上冒,放到人身上
取的是泡泡「一顆接一顆、停不下來」那一面:人的活力也是這樣一直往外冒。
adjective · B2
Always cheerful, friendly and full of energy, in a way other people notice at once. Used about a person, or about someone's personality, voice or laugh.
開朗活潑的
用泡泡當名字的那杯酒
這一支沒有比喻,是直接拿最顯眼的特徵當名字:杯子裡冒的那串氣泡,就成了這種酒的暱稱。
noun · C1
Champagne. This is a light, friendly word for it, used most often when people are celebrating something.
香檳
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。
bubblyadj/ˈbʌbli/
Full of bubbles.
informalCheerful, lively.
Having the characteristics of bubbles.
economicssciencesHaving the characteristics of economic bubbles.
bubblynoun/ˈbʌbli/
informalChampagne.
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。