喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the spot at the top: the place where the orders come from. Standing there does three things at once. Your word carries, so people act on it. Nothing blocks your eyes, so you see the whole scene below. And you are ahead of everyone who is still climbing. Commanding usually describes that spot — or the feeling of someone who seems to be standing in it — rather than any single action.

可以想成一個站在最上面的位置：命令是從那裡發出來的。站在那裡同時有三件事發生。你說的話有人照做。前面沒有東西擋住，底…更多收起可以想成一個站在最上面的位置：命令是從那裡發出來的。站在那裡同時有三件事發生。你說的話有人照做。前面沒有東西擋住，底下看得一清二楚。而且你走在還在往上爬的人前面。commanding 形容的多半就是這個位置，或是某個人身上那種「像是站在那裡」的感覺，而不是某個動作。

Two branches

站在下令的位子上

這一組最貼近核心：權力在誰手上。差別只在權力是職位給的，還是那個人自己帶著的。

adjective · B2

Holding the rank or job that gives a person the right to give orders to other people, as in a commanding officer.

有指揮權的

站得高，所以看得遠、走在前面

同一個位置的另外兩個好處：視線和優勢。站在上面的人不只是能下令，他也看得最完整，並且已經走在別人前面。

adjective · B2

Used about a view or a place: high up or well placed, so that you can see a long way over everything below.

居高臨下、視野開闊的

原始詞典資料5 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。

commandingadj/kəˈmændɪŋ/

  • 1

    Tending to give commands, authoritarian.

    • Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
  • 2

    Impressively dominant; very good and impressive.

    • a commanding structure
    • a man with a commanding presence
  • 3

    Dominating from above, giving a wide view (of a place or position)

    • 2018, Rail, issue 857, July 18-July 31, article on Severn Bridge Junction signal box at Shrewsbury On the top floor is the lever frame where signalmen are afforded an uninterrupted and commanding view of the junction below, and of Shrewsbury station's five working platforms.

commandingnoun/kəˈmændɪŋ/

  • 1

    The act of giving a command.

    • God could then have dispelled their ignorance by revealing to them that He had issued those commands; the fact of the occurrence of the earlier commandings would be the content of the revelation.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。