核心畫面
For the verb, picture a load pressing down on you and you still standing — not winning, not enjoying it, just holding up and carrying on. cope is about capacity meeting demand: the trouble is real, and you manage it well enough to keep going. The noun cope (a priest's robe) is a different word that only happens to be spelt the same.
動詞的 cope 可以想成:壓力壓下來,而你還站著。它不是「解決」也不是「贏」,而是「撐得住、還能繼續走」——事情確…更多收起
動詞的 cope 可以想成:壓力壓下來,而你還站著。它不是「解決」也不是「贏」,而是「撐得住、還能繼續走」——事情確實難,你勉力把它處理到不至於崩掉。重點在承載量對上需求。至於名詞的 cope(教士的長袍),是碰巧同拼法的另一個詞,跟這個畫面沒有關係。原始詞典資料26 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。
Copename
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A surname.
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A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Colorado, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana, United States.
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A town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States.
copeverb詞源 1/ˈkəʊp/
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To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
- Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.
- Phyllida Barlow, the sculptor representing the UK at the Venice Biennale, has said that while it may have taken the art world decades to pay attention to her work, the timing of her recognition was perfect, adding: “20 years ago, I wouldn’t have coped.”
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To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
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falconryhobbieshuntingTo clip the beak or talons of a bird.
- the beak and talons should be closely coped
copenoun詞源 1/ˈkəʊp/
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slangA coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure a hopeless situation.
- There was some public grousing about the number of white supremacists attempting to recruit, however; some incels argued that white supremacy was just another "cope"–just another self-deluding attempt to cover over the grim truth of the blackpill.
- My only 2 copes for the past 3 years have been food & the internet/surfing. Both of these copes have only hurt me further as I have addictions to both sugar and the internet now and have isolated myself further and further into the oblivion.
copeintj詞源 1/ˈkəʊp/
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derogatoryAn expression of spite towards someone who suffered a setback.
- "The other guy cheated, I had no chance!" "Cope."
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derogatoryA contemptuous dismissal, implying that someone should deal with some problem on their own and that the speaker will not engage any further.
copenoun詞源 2/ˈkəʊp/
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derogatoryA long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.
- […] there went firſt 160 Prieſts, all in their Copes, eight Biſhops next, […]
- He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.
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derogatoryAny covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
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derogatoryliteraryThe vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.
- the starry cope of heaven
- Who perceiveth and seeth himselfe placed here,[…]farthest from heavens coape, with those creatures, that are the worst of the three conditions; and yet dareth imaginarily place himselfe above the circle of the Moone, and reduce heaven under his feet.
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derogatorybusinessconstructionmanufacturingA covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.
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derogatoryThe top part of a sand casting mold.
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derogatoryAn ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
copeverb詞源 2/ˈkəʊp/
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derogatoryTo cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
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derogatoryTo form a cope or arch; to arch or bend; to bow.
- [W]e ſee that wreſtlers onely doe claſpe about, and imbrace one another with their armes; and the moſt part of their ſtriving one againſt another, whether it be performed by taking hold either directly or indirectly, by tripping, by coping and tugging, doe all bring them together, and enterlace them; […]
copeverb詞源 3/ˈkəʊp/
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derogatoryobsoleteTo bargain for; to buy.
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derogatoryobsoleteTo exchange or barter.
- [The Patron] Will cope with thee in reasonable wise; That if the living yerely doo arise To fortie pound, that then his yongest sonne Shall twentie have, and twentie thou hast wonne.
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derogatoryobsoleteTo make return for; to requite; to repay.
- Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, / We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
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derogatoryobsoleteTo match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
- I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
- They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
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derogatoryobsoleteTo encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
- Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal.
copeverb詞源 4/ˈkəʊp/
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derogatoryobsoletedialectalTo tie or sew up the mouth of a ferret used for hunting rabbits.
- His nimble ferrets must now become pioners for their master who coupes them, lest they should grow too fat to endure labour.
- The use of this word is confined to warreners, who are said to 'cope' their ferrets, when they sew or tie up their mouths, to prevent them from biting rabbits, when they are used to drive them from their holes.
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derogatoryobsoleteTo silence or prevent from speaking.
- Well sir? how triflingly soeuer you trauers the matter, these my Philosophicall proceedings (for any thing hitherto heard) might fullie suffice to put your fantasticall fooleries to a perpetuall non-sute: were you not like to the rauenous Ferret, which rendeth in peeces whatsoeuer poore Rabbet doth come in her reach. And therefore it shall not be amisse to cope vp your lips a little, by taking foorthwith so strict a course as you shall neuer be able to contradict with all your skill: which may in this sort be verie fitly effected.
- And tell me Signior, why when you eate our good cheare i'th City, haue you handſome wide chops, but meeting vs at Court, none; your gumme's glew'd vp, your lips coap'd like a Ferret, not ſo much as the corner of a Cuſtard; if a cold cup, and a dry cheate loaf 'tis well.
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。