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核心畫面

Lie on your back in a room and look up. There is a flat surface above you, and it stops there — you cannot go higher inside this room. That is the picture in ceiling: the top you run into. Every other use of the word keeps that same feeling of a lid overhead, even when nothing is actually built out of plaster.

可以想成你躺在房間裡往上看：頭頂上有一片平面，到那裡就沒了，在這個房間裡你再也上不去。ceiling 給人的畫面，大…更多收起可以想成你躺在房間裡往上看：頭頂上有一片平面，到那裡就沒了，在這個房間裡你再也上不去。ceiling 給人的畫面，大概就像這個「頂到就停住」的面。這個字後來的每一種用法，都還帶著頭頂上有一層蓋子的感覺，就算那層蓋子並不是真的用水泥或木板做的。

Three branches

房間頭頂的那一面

看得見、摸得到的那個頂，其他意思都從這裡長出來。

room's upper surface · noun · A2

The inside surface at the top of a room.

天花板

數字上不去的那條線

把天花板從房間搬到數字上：金額、人數、價格往上升，升到某個高度就頂住了。差別在於這層頂是人訂出來的，不是蓋出來的。

official upper limit · noun · B1

An official limit that an amount is not allowed to go above.

上限

天空裡的那層頂

同樣是頭頂上那一面，只是這次房間換成了天空：飛機往上爬，爬到某個高度就再也爬不上去；或是抬頭看，雲層自己形成了一片蓋子。

aircraft's maximum altitude · noun · B1

The greatest height an aircraft can fly at, or the height of the lowest thick clouds.

升限；雲幕高

原始詞典資料9 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。

ceilingnoun詞源 1/ˈsiːlɪŋ/

  • 1

    The overhead closure of a room.

    • The dining room had an ornate ceiling.
  • 2

    The upper limit of an object or action.

    • […] and only at Barnet did Tappin give Empire of India a burst to bring us up to the 60 m.p.h. speed ceiling of the London area.
    • Market forces naturally move the economy to the equilibrium, and the price ceiling has no effect on the price or the quantity sold.
  • 3

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationThe highest altitude at which an aircraft can safely maintain flight.

  • 4

    climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesThe measurement of visible distance from ground or sea level to an overcast cloud cover; under a clear sky, the ceiling measurement is identified as "unlimited."

    • Even though it was cloudy, there was still enough ceiling for the Blue Angels to perform a great show.
  • 5

    mathematicssciencesThe smallest integer greater than or equal to a given number.

    • The ceiling of 4.5 is 5; the ceiling of −4.5 is −4.
  • 6

    nauticaltransportThe inner planking of a vessel.

  • 7

    businessfinanceThe maximum permitted level in a financial transaction.

  • 8

    architectureThe overhead interior surface that covers the upper limits of a room.

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 Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。