喜樂美語

這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 be on fire, burning · stream (Scottish)

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burn

n, v

核心畫面

Picture a fire taking hold — flames, heat, light, and something slowly being eaten away and changed by it. 'burn' is that whole event of fire at work. From this one picture the word reaches out two ways: outward to anything fire does to skin, food, fuel or the body, and inward to feelings and wants that flare up inside a person like a fire.

可以想成：一團火燒起來——有火焰、有熱、有光，被燒的東西慢慢被吃掉、被改變。burn 講的就是「火在運作」這整件事。…更多收起可以想成：一團火燒起來——有火焰、有熱、有光，被燒的東西慢慢被吃掉、被改變。burn 講的就是「火在運作」這整件事。抓住這個畫面後，這個字往兩個方向伸展：往外，是火對皮膚、食物、燃料、身體做的各種事；往內，是人心裡像火一樣燒起來的情緒和渴望。

A second word, same spelling

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burn

n

核心畫面

Picture a small stream of water running through the countryside. This 'burn' is a separate word that happens to share the spelling — it has nothing to do with fire. It comes from a different old root meaning a spring or brook, and survives mainly in Scotland and place-names.

可以想成：鄉間流過的一條小溪。這個 burn 其實是另一個碰巧拼法相同的字，和「火」完全無關。它來自另一個古字根，意…更多收起可以想成：鄉間流過的一條小溪。這個 burn 其實是另一個碰巧拼法相同的字，和「火」完全無關。它來自另一個古字根，意思是泉水或小溪，今天主要在蘇格蘭和地名裡還用得到。

原始詞典資料45 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。

Burnname

  • 1

    A village and civil parish in Selby district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE5928).

  • 2

    A river in Dartmoor, Devon, England, a tributary of the River Tavy.

  • 3

    A short river in Norfolk, England, which flows into the North Sea.

  • 4

    A river in North Yorkshire, England, a tributary of the River Ure.

  • 5

    A surname.

burnnoun詞源 1/bɜːn/

  • 1

    A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

    • She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.
    • He burnt his hand in the fire.
  • 2

    A sensation resembling such an injury.

    • chili burn from eating hot peppers
  • 3

    The act of burning something with fire.

    • They’re doing a controlled burn of the fields.
    • One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn.
  • 4

    slangAn intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.

  • 5

    slangAn effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).

  • 6

    Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.

    • One and, two and, keep moving; feel the burn!
  • 7

    slangTobacco.

    • TOM: I’m serious bruv. Put my burn and lighter and all that in my jeans please and give them here, then press the cell bell.
    • “Any of you want to borrow some burn,” asked a scarred inmate known as Bull.
  • 8

    computingengineeringmathematicsThe writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

    • Allow additional burns enables you to create a multisession CD, which can be used again to write more data.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.

    • They have a good burn.
  • 10

    A disease in vegetables; brand.

  • 11

    aerospacebusinessengineeringThe firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.

    • On 4 March 1999, the MCO performed its second course correction manoeuvre with a burn involving its four thrusters […]

burnverb詞源 1/bɜːn/

  • 1

    To cause to be consumed by fire.

    • He burned his manuscript in the fireplace.
    • They haue ſlayne my baylye⸝ and diſtroyed the houſes of my men⸝ banyſſhed and chaſed away myne offycers, and brent yͤ houſe in the worlde that I loued beſt.
  • 2

    To be consumed by fire, or in flames.

    • He watched the house burn.
    • Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
  • 3

    To overheat so as to make unusable.

    • He burned the toast.    The blacksmith burned the steel.
    • with a heavy fire in the fire box there would be great danger of overheating, and thus injuring the boiler or of "burning" it, as it is ordinarily termed.
  • 4

    To become overheated to the point of being unusable.

    • The grill was too hot and the steak burned.
  • 5

    To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.

    • to burn a hole;    to burn letters into a block
    • I posted myself near a place where they had been burning charcoal, and very soon the hare came running past, close to where I was standing.
  • 6

    To give off light; to be lit up.

    • I knew that if a light was burning I should be able to see the window lit up from the yard at the back, although the gas itself would be out of sight.
  • 7

    To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.

    • She burned the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.
  • 8

    medicinesciencessurgeryTo cauterize.

另外 20 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To sunburn.

    • She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.
  • 10

    To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.

    • to burn the mouth with pepper
    • This tyrant fever burns me up.
  • 11

    To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.

    • The child’s forehead was burning with fever.  Her cheeks burned with shame.
    • In ſlumbers oft for fere I quake / For hete & cold I burne & ſhake / For lake of ſlepe my hede dothe ake / What menys thys
  • 12

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.

    • to burn iron in oxygen
    • A human being burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.
  • 13

    datedchemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo combine energetically, with evolution of heat.

    • Copper burns in chlorine.
  • 14

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.

    • We’ll burn this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.
    • At first they didn’t do anything by design, beyond writing songs and gigging around Sheffield, distributing homemade demo CDs at shows. Their canny friends burned copies to leave on buses, but more importantly, uploaded them to filesharing sites and set up a MySpace page.
  • 15

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image (hardsubs).

    • My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to burn them in.
  • 16

    slangTo betray.

    • The informant burned him.
  • 17

    slangTo insult or defeat.

    • I just burned you again.
  • 18

    To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.

    • We have an hour to burn.
    • The company has burned more than a million dollars a month this year.
  • 19

    In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

    • You’re cold… warm… hot… you’re burning!
    • Not being accustomed to make fine distinctions, or to appreciate magnanimity, they read his letters and speeches as if they read them not. They were not aware when they approached a heroic statement,—they did not know when they burned.
  • 20

    ball-gamescurlinggamesTo accidentally touch a moving stone.

  • 21

    card-gamesgamesIn pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.

  • 22

    artsbroadcastingfilmTo make an area of an image darker (when processing photographs in a darkroom, this is accomplished by increasing the exposure of that area to light).

  • 23

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsTo be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.

  • 24

    slangcard-gamesgamblinggamesTo discard.

  • 25

    slangTo shoot someone with a firearm.

  • 26

    espionagegovernmentmilitaryTo compromise (an agent's cover story).

    • He had already burned his cover with Mrs. Phillips, and it was not a mistake he intended to make again.
    • Eventually they'd report back to Ryker, and he still didn't know if Ryker had personally burned his cover and sent assassins after him, or if the SSU had a mole. Until he knew for certain, he had to play this safe.
  • 27

    espionagegovernmentmilitaryTo blackmail.

    • "How does Leipzig burn him precisely?" Enderby insisted. "What's the pressure? Dirty pix—well, okay. Karla's a puritan, so's Kirov. But I mean, Christ, this isn't the fifties, is it? […]
  • 28

    slangTo desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).

burnnoun詞源 2/bɜːn/

  • 1

    A large stream.

    • This darksome burn, horseback brown, / His rollrock highroad roaring down, / In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam / Flutes and low to the lake falls home.
    • He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn, and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.

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。