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核心畫面

A surface with nothing unwanted on it — no dirt, no dust, no marks. You can picture wiping a table until it's bare and bright: whatever shouldn't be there has been taken away, leaving only the thing itself.

可以想成一個表面上「沒有任何不該在那裡的東西」的畫面——沒有灰塵、沒有污漬、沒有痕跡。像把桌面擦到光亮見底：該拿掉的…更多收起可以想成一個表面上「沒有任何不該在那裡的東西」的畫面——沒有灰塵、沒有污漬、沒有痕跡。像把桌面擦到光亮見底：該拿掉的都拿掉了，只剩東西本身。clean 的所有用法幾乎都從這個「沒有雜質、沒有多餘」的畫面長出來：有時是真的乾淨，有時是紀錄上沒有污點，有時是動作上沒有拖泥帶水。

原始詞典資料39 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。

Cleanname

  • 1

    A surname.

cleanadj/kliːn/

  • 1

    Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.

    • Are these dishes clean? Your room is finally clean! For a baby, happiness is a full bottle and a clean diaper.
    • Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • 2

    Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.

    • clean steel
  • 3

    slangFree of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.

    • I don't think he's clean, look at those traps.
  • 4

    Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.

    • Insert a clean swab into your nose.
    • "Serious as cognitohazard." Lillihammer danced down the corridor towards them, doing little pirouettes and leaping from toe to toe. "Reuben Wirth no longer exists. Gonna have to get Forsythe to do that brain scan to make sure I'm clean, but otherwise yeah. Poof."
  • 5

    Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.

    • I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
  • 6

    slanggovernmenthobbieslifestyleFree of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.

    • Our team won, but it wasn't clean.
  • 7

    climbinghobbieslifestyleFree of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.

  • 8

    Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.

    • clean land
    • clean timber
另外 15 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.

    • Put a clean sheet of paper into the printer.
  • 10

    Free of immorality or criminality.

    • Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean.
    • Create in me a clean heart, O God.
  • 11

    Free of immorality or criminality.

    • go clean
    • I've been clean this time for eight months.
  • 12

    Free of immorality or criminality.

    • It was my dream to be a Soviet spy. The vetting process started, and I was “clean”: no Jews in either my background or my wife's, no relatives abroad, already a member of the Soviet Communist Party, high marks on exams, three foreign languages, no dissident inclinations[…]
    • "If the Tramells hadn't passed away, we still wouldn't know. The background check was clean." "How can it be clean, for fuck's sake?" I knocked back the whiskey in one swallow. "Eva's mother used Monica's name, birthdate, and family history, but she never opened a line of credit, which is how most identity theft is discovered."
  • 13

    informalFree of immorality or criminality.

    • I'm clean, officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want.
  • 14

    informalFree of immorality or criminality.

  • 15

    Free of infiltration by covert listening or recording devices (bugs), enemy spies, etc.

    • We are currently clean on OPSEC.
    • "[Are you sure the] room is clean?" "As a whistle. It's swept at irregular intervals every week." "That still leaves time to plant a bug[…]"
  • 16

    Empty.

    • The cargo hold is clean.
    • Mister, I want to see a clean dinner plate or there'll be no dessert for you.
  • 17

    Smooth, exact, and performed well.

    • I'll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.
    • a clean leap over a fence
  • 18

    That does not damage the environment (as much as some alternative).

    • clean energy
    • clean coal
  • 19

    aerodynamicsaeronauticsaerospaceAllowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.

  • 20

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationHaving the undercarriage and flaps in the up position.

  • 21

    Well-proportioned; shapely.

    • clean limbs
  • 22

    informalCool or neat.

    • Wow, dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
  • 23

    Utter, complete, total; pure; free from restraint.

    • a clean sweep
    • When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.

cleannoun/kliːn/

  • 1

    A removal of dirt.

    • This place needs a clean.
    • Give the pan a thorough clean.
  • 2

    hobbieslifestylesportsThe first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.

  • 3

    entertainmentlifestylemusicOf heavy metal, clear vocals, contrasted with death growls and screams.

    • When people complained the songs were too hard, Kyle's clean vocals could bail out the band. Adding cleans would set off a chain reaction though - Kyle's crisp, clear presence could be seen as "betraying" the raw assault that Mike inflicts on the fans with his screams and growls.
    • Vocalist Kaan is impeccable in his performance engaging with the crowd and soulfully executing both searing screams and hauntingly melodic cleans.

cleanverb/kliːn/

  • 1

    To remove dirt from a place or object.

    • Can you clean the windows today?
  • 2

    To tidy up, make a place neat.

    • Clean your room right now!
  • 3

    To make things clean in general.

    • She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
  • 4

    climbinghobbieslifestyleTo remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.

  • 5

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).

  • 6

    ball-gamescurlinggamesTo brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.

  • 7

    slangmangaTo purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.

  • 8

    hobbieslifestylesportsTo lift a weight from the ground to one's shoulders.

    • Mike Aidala grunts as he cleans and presses 300 pounds up from the floor of his garage.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    video-gamesSynonym of clean up.

  • 10

    To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.

    • The fishmonger cleaned the mackerel.
  • 11

    slangTo beat, to thrash; to defeat.

cleanadv/kliːn/

  • 1

    Fully and completely.

    • He was stabbed clean through.
    • You must be clean mad.

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。