核心畫面
You can picture cheerful as happiness that shows on the outside. Not deep joy, not excitement — just a person whose good mood is visible in the face and the voice: smiling, humming, saying good morning as if they mean it. The key is that other people can see it; cheerful is happiness turned outward.
可以想成：一種看得出來的好心情。不是深刻的喜悅，也不是興奮，就是那種掛在臉上、聽得到的愉快——笑著、哼著歌、跟你說早…更多收起
可以想成：一種看得出來的好心情。不是深刻的喜悅，也不是興奮，就是那種掛在臉上、聽得到的愉快——笑著、哼著歌、跟你說早安時語氣是暖的。cheerful 的關鍵在於「別人感受得到」：心裡開心但一臉沒表情，不會被說成 cheerful；反過來，只要那份輕快傳了出去，不管來源是人、是房間、還是一面黃牆，都用得上這個字。原始詞典資料2 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。
cheerfuladj/ˈt͡ʃɪəfl̩/
- 1
Noticeably happy and optimistic.
- Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou, when others are filled with Gloomy forebodings of illl, and see only ruin before them.
- He moped, she felt, as the time went by, and he was cheerfuler only when some letter, full of hope without expectation, came from Dick.
- 2
Bright and pleasant.
- They enjoyed a cheerful room.
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
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。