喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture thick soft material laid right across a floor, edge to edge, so you cannot see the boards underneath. From that come the two things carpet does: it covers a surface completely, and — in a couple of fixed uses — it is the floor you stand on while the boss tells you off.

可以想成：厚厚軟軟的一層鋪滿整個地板，邊到邊，底下的木板完全看不見。這個字後面的用法都從這裡長出來：一是「整片蓋住」…更多收起可以想成：厚厚軟軟的一層鋪滿整個地板，邊到邊，底下的木板完全看不見。這個字後面的用法都從這裡長出來：一是「整片蓋住」，二是在幾個固定說法裡，那塊地毯成了你被主管訓話時站的地方。

From the picture

像地毯一樣蓋滿一整片

把地毯的樣子借給自然界：落葉、花瓣、雪蓋在地上，也是厚厚一層、邊到邊，底下什麼都看不見。這一支標為文學性的用法，寫景時特別好用。

a carpet of something · noun · B2

In the phrase 'a carpet of something': a thick layer of something that covers the ground.

一片；一層

被叫去訓話

這一支的畫面是主管辦公室裡那塊地毯：你被叫進去，站在地毯上聽訓。兩個意思都屬於口語，動詞用法也是從這個場景長出來的。

called on the carpet (told off) · noun · B2

In the phrase 'be called on the carpet': to be told by someone in charge that you have done something wrong.

被叫去挨訓

Also in this word

carpet, floor covering · noun · A2

Thick soft material that covers a floor or stairs, or a piece of this material.

地毯

carpet, lay carpet · verb · B1

To cover a floor or stairs with carpet.

鋪地毯

原始詞典資料8 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。

carpetnoun/ˈkɑː.pɪt/

  • 1

    A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

    • A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
    • The railways are anxious to refurbish their stations and rolling stock when they can get labour and materials, although it is unlikely that they contemplate deep carpets in wayside waiting rooms. Lack of carpets at present is not confined to railways, and roaring fires in the present fuel scarcity would probably be considered anti-social in wayside waiting rooms.
  • 2

    Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

    • the grassy carpet of this plain
    • Way deep in left field, where the carpet of green sloped upward to a terrace and greeted the thick line of trees, he reached out his glove.
  • 3

    Any of a number of moths in the geometrid subfamily Larentiinae

  • 4

    obsoleteA wrought cover for tables.

    • Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets.
  • 5

    vulgarslangA woman's pubic hair.

carpetverb/ˈkɑː.pɪt/

  • 1

    To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.

    • After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.
    • The builders were carpeting in the living room when Zadie inspected her new house.
  • 2

    To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.

    • Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.
    • Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.
  • 3

    To reprimand.

    • Even Colonel Yakov, so recently carpeted by St Petersburg, was reported to be back in the Pamirs.
    • At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.

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。