核心畫面

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.

「bubbly」可以想成一杯剛倒好的飲料:小泡泡沿著杯壁一顆顆往上衝,而且停不下來。這個畫面有兩個重點,英文兩個都拿更多收起「bubbly」可以想成一杯剛倒好的飲料:小泡泡沿著杯壁一顆顆往上衝,而且停不下來。這個畫面有兩個重點,英文兩個都拿去用了。一是「一直往上冒」——所以人可以 bubbly,那股開朗像泡泡一樣不斷湧出來。二是「外面大、裡面空,一碰就破」——所以市場可以 bubbly,價格撐在幾乎空的東西上面。至於被叫做 bubbly 的那杯酒,就站在畫面正中央:名字直接取自你眼前看到的氣泡。

From the word’s history

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

原始詞典資料5 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。

bubblyadj/ˈbʌbli/

  • 1

    Full of bubbles.

    • Whip the egg white into a bubbly froth.
  • 2

    informalCheerful, lively.

    • She has a bubbly personality.
    • “Our priority is to make relationships with people,” says Mariana Gomes, a bubbly social worker who methodically jots down whom she meets and what they need in a giant binder.
  • 3

    Having the characteristics of bubbles.

    • The architecture of the conservatory was bubbly.
  • 4

    economicssciencesHaving the characteristics of economic bubbles.

    • China’s economy is too bubbly and will soon slow down.

bubblynoun/ˈbʌbli/

  • 1

    informalChampagne.

    • We're getting married–this calls for a bottle of bubbly!
    • “[…] Maybe some bubbly for the ladies, since we just bought the house of life, and break camp . . . since they are very appreciative that things got wrapped up so fast.”

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。