撞出那一聲的東西
-er 指器具的那一邊。這三個意思都是硬碰硬、發出一記短響的物件,差別只在它裝在哪裡、為了什麼而響。
noun · C1
The piece of metal that hangs inside a bell and swings against the side of it to make the sound.
鐘舌/鈴舌
Take the word apart and you get clap plus -er: the one that claps. is two hard things meeting and making a short, sharp noise, so a clapper is whatever brings that noise about. Usually it is a thing — the metal piece swinging inside a bell, two blocks of wood knocked together, the hinged arm on a film board — and sometimes it is a person, two hands meeting after a song. Every meaning of this word is somebody or something whose job is to make that one sound.
From clap + -er.
這個字由 clap 加上 -er 組成。-er 在英文裡既可以指人,也可以指做這件事的器具,所以同一個字才會同時可以是「鼓掌的人」和「鐘裡撞出聲音的零件」。
Wiktionary entry for clapper, etymology 1 (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:82011013:29701): From clap + -er.
Three branches
撞出那一聲的東西
-er 指器具的那一邊。這三個意思都是硬碰硬、發出一記短響的物件,差別只在它裝在哪裡、為了什麼而響。
noun · C1
The piece of metal that hangs inside a bell and swings against the side of it to make the sound.
鐘舌/鈴舌
拍手的那個人
-er 指人的那一邊。發出聲音的不是金屬或木頭,而是兩隻手掌。
noun · C1
Someone who claps their hands, usually to show that they liked something.
鼓掌的人
快到像鐘舌一樣
從鐘舌那個畫面再借一步,借的不是聲音,而是速度:鐘響的時候,裡面那塊金屬甩得飛快。
noun · C1
If you run, go, drive, work etc like the clappers, you do it very fast. It is informal, and it is heard mainly in British English.
飛快地、拼了命地