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核心畫面

Picture something moving toward you and arriving where you are. 'Come' is the verb of approach: motion that closes the distance and ends up HERE, at the speaker, at this point in space or time. Everything else 'come' does is this same arrow of arrival pointed at different targets.

可以想成一個朝『你這邊』移動、最後抵達你所在位置的畫面。come 的核心畫面比較像一支指向『這裡』的箭頭：距離被拉近…更多收起可以想成一個朝『你這邊』移動、最後抵達你所在位置的畫面。come 的核心畫面比較像一支指向『這裡』的箭頭：距離被拉近，東西、人、或時刻最後落在說話者的腳邊。它後來的各種用法，都是同一個『靠近並抵達某個點』的動作，只是把那個『點』換成不同的目標——換成一個地方、一個時刻、一個狀態、甚至一個結論。

原始詞典資料32 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。

comeverb詞源 1/kʌm/

  • 1

    To move nearer to the point of perspective.

    • She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes the wrong way […]
    • Look, who comes yonder?
  • 2

    To move nearer to the point of perspective.

    • I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.
    • Stop dawdling and come here!
  • 3

    To move nearer to the point of perspective.

    • Hold on, I'll come in a second.
    • You should ask the doctor to come to your house.
  • 4

    To move nearer to the point of perspective.

    • No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.
    • Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year.
  • 5

    To move nearer to the point of perspective.

    • King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.
    • He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him.
  • 6

    To move nearer to the point of perspective.

    • The butler should come when called.
  • 7

    To arrive.

    • Late at night comes Mr. Hudson, the cooper, my neighbour, and tells me that he come from Chatham this evening at five o'clock, and saw this afternoon "The Royal James," "Oake," and "London," burnt by the enemy with their fire-ships: […]
    • Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
  • 8

    To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.

    • The pain in his leg comes and goes.
    • The news came as a shock.
另外 17 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To begin (to have an opinion or feeling).

    • We came to believe that he was not so innocent after all.
    • She came to think of that country as her home.
  • 10

    To do something by chance or unintentionally.

    • Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?
  • 11

    To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.

    • Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn.
  • 12

    vulgarslangTo achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.

    • She came after a few minutes.
    • Come in me!
  • 13

    To become butter by being churned.

    • when butter does refuse to come
  • 14

    To approach or reach a state of being or accomplishment.

    • They came very close to leaving on time. His test scores came close to perfect.
    • One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.
  • 15

    To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.

    • He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.
  • 16

    archaicTo become, to turn out to be (often in set phrases and certain collocations).

    • Near-synonyms: become, get, go, turn, fall, grow, wax
    • come true
  • 17

    To be supplied, or made available; to exist.

    • He's as tough as they come.
    • Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours.
  • 18

    slangTo carry through; to succeed in.

    • You can't come any tricks here.
  • 19

    To happen.

    • This kind of accident comes when you are careless.
    • But out of sight is out of mind. And that[…]means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous.
  • 20

    To have as an origin, originate.

    • While Kate Roberts came from a poor background and, later in life, in the post-Second World War period suffered from severe money shortages, in the early 1930s, she and her husband must have counted themselves relatively well off, particularly in comparison with their neighbours in Tonypandy.
  • 21

    To have as an origin, originate.

    • Where did you come from?
  • 22

    To have as an origin, originate.

    • She comes from a good family.
    • He comes from a disreputable legal firm.
  • 23

    To have as an origin, originate.

    • The river comes from Bear Lake.
    • Where does this road come from?
  • 24

    To germinate.

  • 25

    informalTo pretend to be; to behave in the manner of; to assume the role of.

    • Don’t come the innocent victim. We all know who’s to blame here.
    • “Hush! hush! Mr. Sikes,” said the Jew, trembling; “don’t speak so loud!” / “None of your mistering,” replied the ruffian; “you always mean mischief when you come that. You know my name: out with it! I shan’t disgrace it when the time comes.”

comenoun詞源 1/kʌm/

  • 1

    obsoleteComing, arrival; approach.

    • “If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women.”
  • 2

    vulgarslangSemen.

    • When a man uses a condom during sex, he takes all of his come with him, preventing her from getting pregnant.
  • 3

    vulgarslangFemale ejaculatory discharge.

comeprep詞源 1/kʌm/

  • 1

    Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.

    • Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests.
    • Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.

comeintj詞源 1/kʌm/

  • 1

    datedformalAn exclamation to express annoyance.

    • Come, come! Stop crying.
    • Come now! Things could be worse.
  • 2

    datedformalAn exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

    • Come, come! You can do it.
    • Come now! It won't bite you.

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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。