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
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.
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
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/
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.
The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
vulgarA vagina.
slangA black eye; a shiner.
chimneyverb/ˈt͡ʃɪmni/
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 Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。