核心畫面

A picture you can hold: a tall narrow shaft standing upright inside a building, open at the top, with smoke from the fire below climbing up it and out into the sky. Two things make it a chimney — it is a vertical hollow passage, and something rises through it. That shape, upright and narrow with walls close on both sides, is what all the other meanings borrow.

一條直直站著的細長通道,穿過房子往上,頂端開口通向天空,底下爐火的煙沿著它一路往上爬、散出去。讓它成為 chimne更多收起一條直直站著的細長通道,穿過房子往上,頂端開口通向天空,底下爐火的煙沿著它一路往上爬、散出去。讓它成為 chimney 的有兩件事——它是垂直中空的通道,而且有東西沿著它往上走。這個「直立、狹窄、兩邊有壁」的形狀,正是其他意思共同借用的東西。

Three branches

排煙的管道與塔

這一支就是核心畫面本身,差別只在你看的是通道還是整座結構。

chimney pipe · noun · A2

A pipe that goes up through a building and lets the smoke from a fire get out into the air. It can also mean the part of that pipe you can see standing above the roof.

煙囪

岩壁上的煙囪形地形

純粹是形狀的借用:同樣是垂直、狹窄、兩壁夾著的通道,只是這一條是石頭天然裂出來的,裡面上升的不是煙而是人。

rock-climbing chimney · noun · C1

A narrow opening in tall rocks or in a cliff, with two walls close enough together that a climber can press against both sides and climb up it.

煙囪地形

只活在片語裡的比喻

借的是核心畫面的一個附帶特徵:煙囪的工作就是不斷冒煙。這條線不是 chimney 這個字本身多出一個意思,而是整句話一起產生的效果。

smoke like a chimney · noun · B2

If someone smokes like a chimney, they smoke a great many cigarettes. People say it in a joking way, and the word chimney only carries this meaning inside that phrase.

菸不離手

原始詞典資料7 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。

chimneynoun/ˈt͡ʃɪmni/

  • 1

    A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.

    • Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and piping the eye.
    • The external aspect of the oficina was not unlike that of a north-country coal or iron mine—tall chimneys and machinery, corrugated iron buildings, offices and houses, the shanties of workmen, a high bank of refuse.
  • 2

    The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.

    • By next winter he was spending every evening poring over the work of Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné on the French Reformation by the light of a little oil lamp, with a tiny cistern the size of an orange and no chimney[.]
  • 3

    The smokestack of a steam locomotive.

  • 4

    A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.

  • 5

    vulgarA vagina.

  • 6

    slangA black eye; a shiner.

chimneyverb/ˈt͡ʃɪmni/

  • 1

    climbinghobbieslifestyleTo negotiate a chimney (narrow vertical cave passage) by pushing against the sides with back, feet, hands, etc.

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