喜樂美語

核心畫面

Think of a deep open container with a handle across the top — you fill it with water, lift it by the handle, and carry it. Everything else the word does grows out of that one object: what it holds, a machine part shaped like it, and the sheer bulk a bucketful suggests.

可以想成一個上面橫著提把的深容器：裝滿水，一手提起來就走。這個字後面幾個意思都是從這個實物長出來的——它裝得下多少（…更多收起可以想成一個上面橫著提把的深容器：裝滿水，一手提起來就走。這個字後面幾個意思都是從這個實物長出來的——它裝得下多少（一桶）、機器上長得像它的那個部件（鏟斗），以及「一桶」給人的那種份量感（一大堆、傾盆而下）。抓住這個提得起來、裝得滿的畫面，其他用法就都串在一起了。

原始詞典資料27 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。

Bucketname

  • 1

    Nickname for Pawtucket: a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.

    • ‘You really think the Bucket's a shithole, Mousy?’ ’[They should] put a toilet seat on top of this place.’
    • People used to call Pawtucket ‘the Bucket’. And it was a derogatory term. But you know what there are some artists who've taken that term ‘the Bucket’ and reinvigorated it and they actually sell shirts, ‘the Bucket’ shirts. They're proud of being from the Bucket

bucketnoun/ˈbʌkɪt/

  • 1

    A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.

    • I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.
    • The crab was cool and very light. But the water was thick with sand, and so, scrambling down, Jacob was about to jump, holding his bucket in front of him, when he saw, stretched entirely rigid, side by side, their faces very red, an enormous man and woman.
  • 2

    The amount held in this container.

    • The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
  • 3

    informalA large amount of liquid.

    • It rained buckets yesterday.
    • I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.
  • 4

    informalA great deal of anything.

    • My new suit cost me buckets.
    • We had buckets of fun.
  • 5

    archaicA unit of measure equal to four gallons.

  • 6

    The part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).

  • 7

    derogatoryslangSomeone who habitually uses crack cocaine.

  • 8

    slangAn old vehicle that is not in good working order.

另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    informalball-gamesbasketballgamesThe basket.

    • The forward drove to the bucket.
  • 10

    informalball-gamesbasketballgamesA field goal.

    • We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
    • [Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block.
  • 11

    A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.

  • 12

    computingengineeringmathematicsA storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.

  • 13

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.

  • 14

    A bucket bag.

    • Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.
  • 15

    The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.

  • 16

    The pitcher in certain orchids.

  • 17

    slangA helmet.

bucketverb/ˈbʌkɪt/

  • 1

    To place inside a bucket.

  • 2

    To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.

    • to bucket water
  • 3

    informalTo rain heavily.

    • It’s really bucketing down out there.
  • 4

    informalTo travel very quickly.

    • The boat is bucketing along.
  • 5

    To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.

  • 6

    slangTo criticize vehemently; to denigrate.

  • 7

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.

    • These candidates are then bucketed into a discretized version of the space of all possible lines.
    • Thus, sorting each bucket takes O(1) times. The total effort of bucketing, sorting buckets, and concotenating^([sic]) the sorted buckets together is O(n).
  • 8

    businessfinanceTo engage in an illegal practice where a broker confirms a client's trade order without actually executing it on the free market.

    • In United States v. Ficken (N.D. Ohio) the defendant was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to charges of converting clients' funds by "bucketing" their orders.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    hobbieslifestylerowingTo make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

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。