核心畫面
You can picture chase as running hard after something that is moving away, wanting to catch it. Hold that image: someone or something is ahead, you go after it at speed. From there it spreads — driving something away by going at it, going hard after a goal or a person you want, rushing about — and the noun simply freezes the same act of running after.
可以把 chase 想成「拚命追在一個正在跑開的東西後面,想抓住它」的畫面。記住這個畫面:有人或有東西在前頭,你快步…更多收起
可以把 chase 想成「拚命追在一個正在跑開的東西後面,想抓住它」的畫面。記住這個畫面:有人或有東西在前頭,你快步追上去。從這裡散開——朝著某物衝過去把牠趕走、卯足勁去追一個目標或心儀的人、東奔西跑地忙——名詞則只是把「追上去」這個動作凝成一個東西。原始詞典資料43 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。
Chasename/t͡ʃeɪs/
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A surname transferred from the nickname from a Middle English nickname for a hunter.
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A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
- “Chase Strangio is our nation’s leading legal expert on the rights of transgender people, bar none,” said Cecillia Wang, the ACLU’s legal director.
- “We’re in a moment in this country where transgender people in this country are under attack in lawless ways,” said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who represented transgender teens at the high court.
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另外 4 個記錄的用法
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chasenoun詞源 1/t͡ʃeɪs/
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The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
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A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
- He was a good shot and passionately fond of the chase, and used to spend many hours in the neighbouring woods after the harts and the wild sows.
- By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the hill-side.
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A children's game where one player chases another.
- Some children like to be caught when playing chase, and others do not.
- So we played chase up and down the concourses of the airport.
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A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
- Outside, the stately oaks, rooted for ages in the green ground which has never known ploughshare, but was still a chase when kings rode to battle with sword and shield and rode a-hunting with bow and arrow, bear witness to his greatness.
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Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
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obsoleteA wild animal that is hunted.
- As touching the Harte and such other light chases or beasts of Uenerie, the huntesmen on horsebacke may followe theyr houndes alwayes by the same wayes that they saw him passe ouer,
- Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase, For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
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nauticaltransportAny of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
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The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
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A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
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cyclinghobbieslifestyleOne or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
chaseverb詞源 1/t͡ʃeɪs/
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To pursue.
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To pursue.
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To pursue.
- The team are chasing their first home win this season.
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To pursue.
- He spends all his free time chasing girls.
- She was the girl, I know that now. But I pushed her away. So, I've spent every day since then chasing Amy… so to speak.
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nauticaltransportTo pursue.
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To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
- I need something to chase this shot with.
- [He] chases his bedtime Valium with Johnny Walker Red.
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ball-gamescricketgamesTo attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
- Australia will be chasing 217 for victory on the final day.
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ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
- Jones chases one out of the zone for strike two.
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ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
- The rally chased the starter.
chasenoun詞源 2/t͡ʃeɪs/
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mediaprintingpublishingA rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
- The die-maker should work upon the surface of an imposing table. First, he places on the table the chase in which the die is to be locked up. Second, he fills in the chase with regular printer’s wood furniture, leaving space in the center for the die, and placing locking quoins near the top of the chase and on the right-hand side of the chase. Third, the cutting and creasing rules are set in the open space in the center of the chase, filling in with metal or wood furniture.
chasenoun詞源 3/t͡ʃeɪs/
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A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
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architectureA trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
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The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
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The cavity of a mold.
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businessmanufacturingshipbuildingA kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
chaseverb詞源 3/t͡ʃeɪs/
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To groove; indent.
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To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
- chase the pipe
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To cut (the thread of a screw).
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To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
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。