最大的那一塊
把「體積最大的那團」搬到抽象的東西上：一筆錢、一份工作、一群人裡面，佔掉最多的那一部分。
main part · noun · B2
The main part or largest part of something.
大部分
核心畫面
One way to hold it: sheer mass taking up room. Picture a huge crate, or a big man lowering himself into a small chair — what you notice is not the shape or the beauty, just how much space it fills. From that one idea English gets three directions: the size itself, the biggest slice of something, and goods moving in large amounts.
可以想成一團佔位子的體積。想像一個巨大的木箱，或一個大塊頭的人慢慢坐進小椅子——你注意到的不是形狀好不好看，而是「它…更多收起
可以想成一團佔位子的體積。想像一個巨大的木箱，或一個大塊頭的人慢慢坐進小椅子——你注意到的不是形狀好不好看，而是「它佔了好多空間」。英文從這個畫面長出三個方向：體積本身、一件事裡最大的那一塊，以及一次搬一大批、不分小包裝的貨。From the picture
一次一大批
體積大到不再一小包一小包處理，而是整批地買、整批地運——「量大」在商業上的說法都掛在 bulk 這個字上。
sold loose, unpackaged · adjective · B2
Sold or moved in large amounts, not in small packets.
散裝的／大宗的
在心裡顯得龐大
把佔空間這件事搬進腦袋裡：一件事在你心裡佔的位置很大，於是顯得重要。
bulk large · verb · C2
To seem important or to be a big part of something, especially in someone's mind.
顯得重要
Also in this word
large size · noun · B2
The large size or heavy shape of something big, especially the way it looks or takes up space.
龐大的身軀／龐然大物
size or volume · noun · B2
How big something is, especially in the amount of space it takes up.
體積／大小
原始詞典資料19 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。
bulknoun/bʌlk/
- 1
Size, specifically, volume.
- The Quantity of Matter is the measure of the same, arising from its density and bulk conjunctly.
- “ Didn't Balbus say this morning that, if a body is immersed in liquid, it displaces as much liquid as is equal to its own bulk? ” said Hugh.
- 2
Any huge body or structure.
- The obese woman couldn't ease her bulk through the narrow passageway.
- 3
The major part of something.
- In the case of such a contract, there must be an implied condition that the bulk shall correspond with the sample in quality
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
- 4
The major part of something.
- The bulk of my income comes from my office job, but I also teach a couple of evening classes.
- The bulk of the criticisms were invalid.
- 5
The major part of something.
- I understood the bulk of what you were saying, just one of two points I need to hear again.
- 6
Dietary fibre.
- 7
transportUnpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.
- 8
A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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bodybuildinghobbieslifestyleExcess body mass, especially muscle.
- 10
bodybuildinghobbieslifestyleA period where one tries to gain muscle.
- 11
A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- 12
obsoleteThe body.
- ...haunted the chocolate-houses, beat the watch, lay on bulks, and got claps;
- Methought I had, and often did I strive To yield the ghost, but still the envious flood Stopped in my soul and would not let it forth To find the empty, vast, and wand'ring air, But smothered it within my panting bulk, Who almost burst to belch it in the sea.
bulkadj/bʌlk/
- 1
Being large in size, mass, or volume (of goods, etc.).
- 2
Total.
- Bulk fermentation
bulkverb/bʌlk/
- 1
To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment.
- Last, behold on Juss’s right hand, yon lord that bulks mighty as Hercules yet steppeth lightly as a heifer.
- 2
To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- 3
To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- 4
To put or hold in bulk.
- 5
obsoleteTo add bulk to; to bulk out.
- Some of the towne dwellers haue ſo large an opinion of their ſetled prouiſion, that if all her Maieſties fleet at once ſhould put into their bay, within twelue dayes warning with ſo much double beere, beefe, fiſh and bisket they would bulke them as they could wallow away with.
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。