喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture 'company' as people who are WITH you — the word literally grew from 'sharing bread together'. From that one warm image two roads open: the soft road of 'having others around you' (, guests, friends, a crowd), and the firm road of 'a body of people organized into one unit' (a business, a , an army company).

可以把 company 想成「跟你在一起的人」。這個字最早的畫面其實是「一起分一塊麵包」——同桌吃飯的人。從這個溫暖…更多收起可以把 company 想成「跟你在一起的人」。這個字最早的畫面其實是「一起分一塊麵包」——同桌吃飯的人。從這個溫暖的起點岔出兩條路:一條是軟的,「身邊有人、不孤單」(陪伴、客人、朋友、一群人);一條是硬的,「一群人被組織成一個單位」(公司、表演團、軍隊的一個連)。核心可以想成「在一起的人」,再看是隨意聚在一起,還是被編成一個團體。

原始詞典資料18 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。

companynoun/ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/

  • 1

    A team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose.

    • a company of knights
  • 2

    A team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose.

    • a company of actors
  • 3

    governmentmilitarynauticalA team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose.

    • a ship's company
  • 4

    governmentmilitarypoliticsA team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose.

    • the boys in Company C
    • It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.
  • 5

    A team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose.

    • It took six companies to put out the fire.
  • 6

    informalespionagegovernmentmilitaryA team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose.

    • As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.
  • 7

    informalaeronauticsaerospaceaviationA team; a group of people who work together for a common purpose.

  • 8

    A small group of birds or animals.

另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    lawAn entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.

    • a financial services company
    • “[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes; love of the people, and that sort of guff.”
  • 10

    businesslawAn entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.

    • Marconi set up the company who made the first radios.
    • In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
  • 11

    lawAn entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.

    • Smith, Capitano and Company
    • Here come Will, Martin and company.
  • 12

    Companionship.

    • I treasure your company.
    • He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
  • 13

    Companionship.

    • Keep the house clean; I have company coming.
    • Come, O thou Traveller unknown, / Whom still I hold, but cannot see! / My company before is gone, / And I am left alone with Thee; / With Thee all night I mean to stay, / And wrestle till the break of day.
  • 14

    Companionship.

    • Get your guns ready: intel said there'd be no hostiles in the area, but it looks like we've got company.
    • I thought we'd be the only ones exploring this abandoned tunnel system today, but judging by that light up ahead, it looks like we've got company. I wonder if it's anyone we know.

companyverb/ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/

  • 1

    archaicTo accompany, keep company with.

    • Ye dooe knowe howe thatt hytt ys an vnlawefull thynge for a man beynge a iewe to company or come vnto an alient […].
    • it was with a distinctly fallen countenance that his father hearkened to his mother's parenthetical request to “’bide hyar an’ company leetle Moses whilst I be a-milkin’ the cow.”
  • 2

    archaicTo associate.

    • Men which have companied with us all the time.
  • 3

    obsoleteTo be a lively, cheerful companion.

    • If thee list unto the Court to throng […]there thou needs must learne, to laugh, to lie, To face, to forge, to scoffe, to companie.
  • 4

    obsoleteTo have sexual intercourse.

    • companying with Infidels may not be simply condemned

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。