喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can hold cross as two lines that meet and pass through each other — the shape of an X or a +. From that one picture two big ideas branch: the mark/shape itself (a cross, a ), and the action of going across — moving from one side over to the other, or two things passing over each other.

可以想成：兩條線交會、互相穿過，畫出一個 X 或 ＋ 的形狀。從這一個畫面長出兩大支：一支是那個「形狀／記號」本身（…更多收起可以想成：兩條線交會、互相穿過，畫出一個 X 或 ＋ 的形狀。從這一個畫面長出兩大支：一支是那個「形狀／記號」本身（叉號、十字架），另一支是「橫越、交叉」這個動作——從一邊穿到另一邊，或兩個東西彼此穿過、交錯。cross 幾乎所有意思都能回到「兩條線相交」這個原型上。

原始詞典資料65 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。

Crossname/kɹɒs/

  • 1

    ChristianityThe cross on which Jesus died and, in metonymical uses, such as to refer to Christ's suffering in general.

  • 2

    A number of places with the name "Cross":

  • 3

    A number of places with the name "Cross":

  • 4

    A number of places with the name "Cross":

  • 5

    A number of places with the name "Cross":

  • 6

    A number of places with the name "Cross":

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    A number of places with the name "Cross":

  • 8

    A number of places with the name "Cross":

另外 5 個記錄的用法
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    A number of places with the name "Cross":

  • 10

    A number of places with the name "Cross":

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    A number of places with the name "Cross":

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    A number of places with the name "Cross":

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    A number of places with the name "Cross":

Crossname/kɹɒs/

  • 1

    A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a stone cross on a road.

    • Max Cross cut a fine figure as the Colonel, Percy Penny was a somewhat unducal Duke, while Edgar McHale gave a particularly good rendering of the Major.

crossnoun/kɹɒs/

  • 1

    A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.

    • Put a cross for a wrong answer and a tick for a right one.
  • 2

    governmentheraldryhobbiesAny geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.

  • 3

    A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).

    • Criminals were commonly executed on a wooden cross.
  • 4

    ChristianityA hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross; sign of the cross.

    • She made the cross after swearing.
  • 5

    ChristianityAny representation of the crucifix, as in religious architecture, burial markers, jewelry, etc.

    • She was wearing a cross on her necklace.
  • 6

    A difficult situation that must be endured.

    • It's a cross I must bear.
    • Heaven prepares good men with crosses.
  • 7

    The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other

    • A quick cross of the road.
  • 8

    biologynatural-sciencesAn animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.

另外 15 個記錄的用法
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    One element of a hybrid species or type.

    • The native Amboynese who reside in the city are a strange half-civilized, half-savage lazy people, who seem to be a mixture of at least three races - Portuguese, Malay, and Papuan or Ceramese, with an occasional cross of Chinese or Dutch.
  • 10

    A hybrid of any kind.

    • Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler
  • 11

    boxinggovernmenthobbiesA hook thrown over the opponent's punch.

  • 12

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesA pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.

    • And Stamford Bridge erupted with joy as Florent Malouda slotted in a cross from Drogba, who had stayed just onside.
    • More German peril would follow as Joshua Kimmich swung in a cross for Havertz, whose well-placed header was majestically saved by Yahia Fofana.
  • 13

    A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).

  • 14

    A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)

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    obsoleteA coin stamped with the figure of a cross, or that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.

    • I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse.
  • 16

    obsoleteChurch lands.

    • the church-lands lying within the same, which were called the Cross
  • 17

    A line across or through another line.

  • 18

    geographynatural-sciencessurveyingAn instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.

  • 19

    A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.

  • 20

    Rubik's-CubegamesFour edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.

  • 21

    cartomancyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe thirty-sixth Lenormand card.

  • 22

    archaicA betrayal; dishonest practices, especially deliberately losing a sporting contest.

  • 23

    slangCrossfire.

crossadj/kɹɒs/

  • 1

    Transverse; lying across the main direction.

    • At the end of each row were cross benches which linked the rows.
    • the cross refraction of the second prism
  • 2

    archaicOpposite, opposed to.

    • His actions were perversely cross to his own happiness.
  • 3

    archaicOpposing, adverse; being contrary to what one would hope or wish for.

    • As a fat body is more subject to diseases, so are rich men to absurdities and fooleries, to many casualties and cross inconveniences.
    • a cross fortune
  • 4

    (of someone) Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed; (of words) tinged with anger.

    • They exchanged a few cross words.
    • She was rather cross about missing her train on the first day of the job.
  • 5

    Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.

    • cross interrogatories
    • cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other
  • 6

    nauticaltransportOf the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.

    • As my father remarked to me when I stole on deck to view the state of affairs, the sea was a "cross one," and very difficult to steer against.
  • 7

    archaicDishonest.

crossprep/kɹɒs/

  • 1

    archaicAcross.

    • She walked cross the mountains.
    • A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.
  • 2

    The cross product of the previous vector and the following vector.

    • The Lorentz force is q times v cross B.

crossverb/kɹɒs/

  • 1

    To make or form a cross.

    • She frowned and crossed her arms.
  • 2

    To make or form a cross.

    • to cross the letter t
  • 3

    To make or form a cross.

    • Cross the box which applies to you.
  • 4

    To make or form a cross.

    • An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
  • 5

    To make or form a cross.

    • Again Beatrice crossed herself and sighed heavily as she bent over the dead insect.
  • 6

    To make or form a cross.

    • "Well, no! that's what I cannot make out either," said the mother quite innocently, "for I've had castor in the cradle, - I have crossed him, and I put a silver brooch in his shirt, and I stuck a knife in the beam over the door, so I don't know how they could have managed to change him."
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    obsoleteslangTo make or form a cross.

    • 2022, Andrew Lang, Oxford The reign of Mary was scarcely more favourable to letters. No one knew what to be at in religion. In Magdalen no one could be found to say Mass, the fellows were turned out, the undergraduates were whipped — boyish martyrs — and crossed at the buttery.
  • 8

    To move relatively.

    • Why did the chicken cross the road?
    • You need to cross the street at the lights.
另外 10 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To move relatively.

    • Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.
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    To move relatively.

    • November 4, 1866, James David Forbes, letter to E. C. Batten Esq. Your kind letter crossed mine.
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    ball-gamescricketgamesTo move relatively.

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    ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo move relatively.

    • He crossed the ball into the penalty area.
  • 13

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo move relatively.

    • England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break.
  • 14

    To oppose.

    • "You'll rue the day you tried to cross me, Tom Hero!" bellowed the villain.
    • At length I begged him, with all the earnestness I felt, to tell me what had occurred to cross him so unusually, and to let me sympathize with him, if I could not hope to advise him.
  • 15

    obsoleteTo oppose.

    • to cross me from the golden time I look for
  • 16

    lawTo oppose.

  • 17

    biologynatural-sciencesTo cross-fertilize or crossbreed.

    • They managed to cross a sheep with a goat.
    • Question: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino? Answer : El-if-I-no.
  • 18

    To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.

    • The English practice of crossing checks so that payment may be made to the bank account or to order is prevalent.

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。