喜樂美語

核心畫面

Think of LOADING something onto someone or something — putting a weight on them. You can load a cost onto a buyer (they must pay), load a duty onto a person (they must do it), load blame onto someone, load power into a battery, load explosive into a hole, or load your whole body forward in a rush. 'Charge' is that act of loading a burden, a demand, or stored-up force.

可以想成把某個東西「裝上去、壓上去」：把費用壓到買家身上（他得付）、把責任交到某人身上（他得做）、把過錯扣到某人頭上…更多收起可以想成把某個東西「裝上去、壓上去」：把費用壓到買家身上（他得付）、把責任交到某人身上（他得做）、把過錯扣到某人頭上、把電力灌進電池、把炸藥塞進洞裡、或是把整個身體往前一股勁衝出去。「charge」的核心畫面比較像「裝載一份負擔、一份要求、或一股蓄積的力量」——所有用法幾乎都從這個「把東西壓上去／灌進去」的動作長出來。

原始詞典資料44 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。

chargenoun/ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    The amount of money levied for a service.

    • There will be a charge of five dollars.
    • There is a cancellation charge if you withdraw your order.
  • 2

    governmentmilitarypoliticsAn attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.

    • Pickett's Charge; the Charge of the Light Brigade
  • 3

    A forceful forward movement.

    • Abou Diaby should have added Arsenal's fourth in the 50th minute after he danced round a host of defenders on a charge towards goal
  • 4

    An accusation.

    • two charges of manslaughter
    • "Ain't gone be no Rikers Island for you next time," I warned him. "You get tapped on another gun charge and you looking at some upstate time."
  • 5

    An accusation.

    • That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
    • we'll nail the sophist to it, if we can get him on that charge;
  • 6

    chemistryelectrical-engineeringelectromagnetismAn electric charge.

  • 7

    The scope of someone's responsibility.

    • The child was in the nanny's charge.
    • He had the key of a closet in which the moneys of this fund were kept, but the outer key of the vault, of which the closet formed part, was in the charge of another person.
  • 8

    Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.

    • The child was a charge of the nanny.
另外 13 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A load or burden; cargo.

    • The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
  • 10

    An instruction.

    • I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
  • 11

    lawpropertyA mortgage.

  • 12

    ball-gamesbasketballgamesAn offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.

  • 13

    engineeringfirearmsgovernmentA measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.

  • 14

    A measured amount of explosive.

    • Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that.
  • 15

    governmentheraldryhobbiesAn image displayed on an escutcheon.

    • Near-synonym: emblem
  • 16

    engineeringgovernmentmilitaryA position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.

    • to bring a weapon to the charge
  • 17

    farrieryhobbieshorsesA sort of plaster or ointment.

  • 18

    obsoleteWeight; import; value.

    • many suchlike as's of great charge
  • 19

    obsoletehistoricalA measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.

  • 20

    ecclesiasticallifestylereligionAn address given at a church service concluding a visitation.

  • 21

    slangCannabis.

    • At about the same time I went off pills and started smoking charge marijuana, you know.
    • It had been a false alarm, and £2 worth of charge (marijuana) had gone out of the window.

chargeverb/ˈt͡ʃɑːd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.

    • Moses […] charged you to love the Lord your God.
    • Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition.
  • 2

    To assign (a debit) to an account.

    • Let's charge this to marketing.
    • The law firm's billings are up this month: she's charged 1,000 billing hours to that case.
  • 3

    To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).

    • to charge high for goods
    • I won't charge you for the wheat.
  • 4

    To pay on account, as by using a credit card.

    • Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?
    • Can I charge this purchase?
  • 5

    datedTo sell (something) at a given price.

    • to charge coal at $5 per unit
  • 6

    governmentlaw-enforcementTo formally accuse (a person) of a crime.

    • I'm charging you with assault and battery.
  • 7

    lawpropertyTo mortgage (a property).

  • 8

    To impute or ascribe.

    • No more accuse thy pen, but charge the crime / On native sloth, and negligence of time.
    • He lacked the art of wounding with the sword, and in any case his critics charged that he shrank from steel; but his invective was worthy of Demosthenes and his words drew blood.
另外 14 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To call to account; to challenge.

    • to charge me to an answer
  • 10

    To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.

    • the charging of children's memories[…] with rules
    • [H]er grandfather […] charged her as she valued her life never to mention that again […]
  • 11

    To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.

    • to charge an architectural member with a moulding
  • 12

    governmentheraldryhobbiesTo place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.

    • He charges three roses.
  • 13

    governmentheraldryhobbiesTo place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.

    • He charges his shield with three roses or.
    • Within a blue garter inscribed "Great Northern Railway Ireland" is a shield, on which are marshalled the arms of the principal towns in the company's area. The shield is divided quarterly with the arms of Dublin in the first quarter, Londonderry in the second quarter, Enniskillen in the third, and Belfast in the fourth; and overall is a gold inescutcheon (a small shield placed in the centre of the large shield) charged with the red left hand of Ulster.
  • 14

    To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.

    • Charge your weapons; we're moving up.
    • their battering cannon charged to the mouths
  • 15

    To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.

    • Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
  • 16

    To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.

    • He charged the battery overnight.
    • Don't forget to charge the drill.
  • 17

    To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.

    • The battery is still charging: I can't use it yet.
    • His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.
  • 18

    To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.

    • Faced with an enemy whose largest gun turrets weigh more than the entire ship, Johnston decides that running is boring, and instead pulls a full 180-degree turn and charges straight back at the attacking forces.
  • 19

    governmentmilitarypoliticsTo move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.

    • The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.
    • My Lord, we haue diſcouered the enemie Readie to Charge you with a mightie army.
  • 20

    ball-gamesbasketballgamesTo move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.

  • 21

    ball-gamescricketgamesTo move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.

  • 22

    To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)

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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。