核心畫面

One way to hold this word: not one mat you can pick up, but the whole covered floor — the soft stuff spread from wall to wall, and the material it is cut from.

可以想成:不是一塊可以撿起來的墊子,而是整片鋪好的地板。從這面牆到那面牆的那一層,加上剪下它的那捲材料。這也是它跟 更多收起可以想成:不是一塊可以撿起來的墊子,而是整片鋪好的地板。從這面牆到那面牆的那一層,加上剪下它的那捲材料。這也是它跟 carpet 的分工:一塊可以數,一整片不數。

Two branches

鋪在地上的那一整片

最貼著畫面的一支,也是這個字文法特徵最清楚的地方:不可數。

noun · B2

Carpet thought of as a material or as floor covering in general — the stuff itself, or all the carpet in a room or building, rather than one separate mat you can pick up.

地毯(總稱、材料)

被叫去訓的那幾分鐘

這一支跟地板那一支怎麼接上,字典沒有交代,所以下面給的是記法,不是字源。

noun · C1

A telling-off: an occasion when someone in authority speaks to you angrily because you have done something wrong. Countable, informal, and marked British English.

被叫去訓一頓

原始詞典資料4 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。

carpetingnoun

  • 1

    Carpet or a piece of carpet, especially when speaking of installation or removal.

    • As part of the restoration of the house, they took up the carpeting and left the hardwood floors exposed.
  • 2

    Cloth or materials for carpets.

  • 3

    informalA severe reprimand or telling-off.

    • She got a carpeting from the boss.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。