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核心畫面

You can picture a group of people on a ship who each have a job and work together as one working unit — not random passengers, but the team that actually runs the vessel. From that picture, crew stretches to any small tight group who operate together.

可以想成一艘船上的一組人,每個人各有分工,合起來把這艘船開動、運轉——他們不是乘客,而是真正在「跑」這條船的工作團隊…更多收起可以想成一艘船上的一組人,每個人各有分工,合起來把這艘船開動、運轉——他們不是乘客,而是真正在「跑」這條船的工作團隊。crew 的核心畫面比較像這種「一群人綁在一起、當成一個運作單位」的感覺,後面所有意思都是從這個小而緊密的團隊往外長出來的。

Three branches

操作載具的工作團隊

這一族最貼近核心畫面:一群人在交通工具上分工合作、把它開起來。從船延伸到飛機,再從名詞延伸到動詞——當這個團隊的一員。

crew (ship or plane staff) · noun · B1

The whole group of people who do the jobs on a ship or plane.

全體船員

靠專門技術合作的工作組

把「船員」這個畫面抽掉船,只留下「一群有專長、分工把一件事做成的人」,就得到一般的工作團隊。划船隊則是這種團隊的運動版本。

crew (skilled work team) · noun · B1

A group of people with special skills who work together on a job.

工作團隊

湊在一起的一夥人

把「合作工作」這層拿掉,只留下「綁在一起、自成一團」的味道,crew 就用來指一夥人——可以是朋友圈、街頭組合,語氣帶點隨意或調侃。

crew (group of people/friends) · noun · B1

A group of people or friends, sometimes said in a joking or disapproving way.

一夥人

原始詞典資料28 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。

Crewname

  • 1

    A habitational surname from Welsh.

  • 2

    A male given name transferred from the surname.

  • 3

    A townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

  • 4

    A townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

crewnoun詞源 1/kɹuː/

  • 1

    obsoleteA group of people together

    • There a noble crew / Of Lordes and Ladies stood on every side.
    • Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?
  • 2

    A group of people together

    • If you need help, please contact a member of the crew.
    • He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.
  • 3

    A group of people together

    • The crews competed to cut the most timber.
  • 4

    artartsA group of people together

    • There are a lot of carpenters in the crew!
    • The crews for different movies would all come down to the bar at night.
  • 5

    derogatoryinformalA group of people together

    • I’d look out for that whole crew down at Jack’s.
  • 6

    derogatoryA group of people together

    • 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few, And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru; They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew, But his soul is marching on.
    • Malignant principles bear fruit in kind and the Revolution did no more than practice what men had been taught by the abandoned crew of philosophers.
  • 7

    A group of people together

  • 8

    slangdancinghip-hophobbiesA group of people together

    • And Jay cuts the records every day of the week / And we are the crew that can never be meek
    • The most popular and critically acclaimed rap and deejay “crews”—Run-D.M.C., Whodini, L.L. Cool J, the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, Public Enemy, Full Force, Salt & Pepa, Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, Mantronix, U.T.F.O., et al.—were spawned on that city's streets.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    hobbieslifestylerowingA group of people together

    • If a crew feather much under water, it is a good plan to seat them in a row on a bench, and give each man a stick to handle as an oar.
  • 10

    A person in a crew

    • One crew died in the accident.
  • 11

    artartsA person in a crew

    • There were three actors and six crew on the set.
  • 12

    nauticaltransportA person in a crew

    • The officers and crew assembled on the deck.
    • There are quarters for three officers and five crew.
  • 13

    hobbieslifestylerowingThe sport of competitive rowing.

    • The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.
    • Two Andover classmates, Al Wilson and Al Lindley, both went out for crew in our freshman year at Yale.

crewverb詞源 1/kɹuː/

  • 1

    To be a member of a vessel's crew.

    • We crewed together on a fishing boat last year.
    • The ship was crewed by fifty sailors.
  • 2

    To be a member of a work or production crew.

    • The film was crewed and directed by students.
  • 3

    To supply workers or sailors for a crew.

    • The seafood companies crewed huge trawlers with new fishermen, many of whom were fish-plant workers, since much of the work on board a modern trawler is fish processing.
    • Steele crewed the boat with men from his own regiment and volunteers from John Wood's detachment.
  • 4

    nauticaltransportTo do the proper work of a sailor.

    • The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.
  • 5

    nauticaltransportTo take on, recruit (new) crew.

    • The two ships will be crewing in the latter half of September.

crewnoun詞源 3/kɹuː/

  • 1

    dialectalA pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

    • Between the shippon and the pig-crew, with the wind blowing over from the vegetable ground.

crewnoun詞源 4/kɹuː/

  • 1

    dateddialectalThe Manx shearwater.

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。