- 1燭台。（金融）K線／蠟燭圖 candlestick chart — 台灣股市講的「K線」就是這個字。
A candlestick is the holder you stand a candle in so it will not fall over and so the hot wax has somewhere to go. The usual shape is a small base with a cup or a spike on top, made of metal, wood, glass, or china. Note the trap in the word: the 'stick' is not the candle. The stick is the holder; the candle is the soft thing that burns. A tall pair of candlesticks on a dinner table is a picture of a formal meal, and old brass or silver ones are the kind of thing families keep for years. If a holder carries several candles at once on branching arms, English usually calls that a rather than a candlestick. Two other places you will meet the word. Games and books: 'candlestick maker' comes from an old children's rhyme, and Candlestick is a weapon card in the board game Cluedo. Finance: a candlestick chart is the standard way of drawing stock prices, where each little box with lines coming out of the top and bottom shows one day's high, low, open and close. That sense is very common in Taiwan, so a student who will meet the word there first — 蠟燭圖 or K線.
組成candle + stick, together since Old English candelsticca. Here 'stick' keeps its old, wider meaning of a piece of wood shaped for a job, not a thin twig — so the whole word is 'the wooden thing that holds a candle', even after people started making them from metal.
同家族的字
- candlethe thing it holds
- candlelightcandle + light, the light it gives
- chopstickthe same everyday '-stick' compound pattern
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
candlesticknoun/ˈkændəlˌstɪk/
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A holder with a socket or spike for a candle.
- Neither doe men light a candle, and put it vnder a bushell: but on a candlesticke, and it giueth light vnto all that are in the house.
- Sorcerers and other practitioners of witchcraft used to make a variety of candlestick called the Hand of Glory, chiefly from the flesh of criminals[.]
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gymnasticshobbieslifestyleA gymnastics move in which the legs are pointed vertically upward.
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businessfinanceA color-coded bar showing the open and closing prices of a stock on a candlestick chart.
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historicalslanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsThe central ignition tube connecting the fuse and charge of a WWI shrapnel shell, shaped like a candle stick.
- Inside the shrapnel shell was an iron bar with a flattened, broad nose. When the shell burst in the air this iron object fell to the ground and, since it came often from a great height, its fall was dangerous. The men called these candlesticks, which they much resembled.
candlestickverb/ˈkændəlˌstɪk/
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To catch on fire, so that the chute resembles a tapered candle with a flame on top.
- Planes fell in flames, planes fell not in flames. Men fell in flames, men fell safely in their parachutes, some candlesticked.
- Archie Jack had a second lucky escape in a later attempt when his pilot, nervous of flying over the high mountain ranges, made him jump out at a much greater altitude than was usual. What initially seemed inconsiderate saved Jack's life as his parachute 'candlesticked', ...
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To analyze stock behavior using Japanese candlestick charts.
- The other book I would recommend is on a technical evaluation method called “candlesticking.”
- “You wouldn't happen to be the B. J. Devine who wrote the Devine candlestick formula?” I blurted, not thinking it could be true. Candlesticking is one of the trickier methods of charting stock.
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To adorn with candlesticks.
- The Drama's altar isn't on the stage; it is candlesticked and flowered in the box-office.
- 3 When I get my room arranged, it will be carpeted, cushioned, curtained (one set crimson dama[s]k, one white), mirrored, silver candlesticked, etc., etc., etc.
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To form a tall, thin, tapering shape similar to a candle.
- If cut on the individual stems at three-leaf clusters, the cane will "candlestick."
- Initially, the end of the shaft is ragged, but then begins to taper smoothly, exhibiting the "candlesticking" or "pencilling" referred to in the literature (Fig. 13).
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