核心畫面

A round band of gold and jewels resting on top of a king's head. It marks both a literal top (it sits at the highest point of the body) and supreme status (only the ruler wears it). Almost every other meaning of 'crown' grows from one of these two ideas: the thing that sits on the very top, or the mark of being number one.

可以想成一圈鑲著珠寶的金環,端端正正戴在國王頭頂的最高處。這個畫面同時抓住兩件事:它在「最頂端」(戴在頭最高的地方)更多收起可以想成一圈鑲著珠寶的金環,端端正正戴在國王頭頂的最高處。這個畫面同時抓住兩件事:它在「最頂端」(戴在頭最高的地方),也代表「最高地位」(只有統治者能戴)。crown 後面幾乎所有意思,都是從這兩條線長出來的——不是「位於最頂端的東西」,就是「第一名的標記」。

原始詞典資料60 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。

Crownname

  • 1

    governmentThe sovereign of a monarchy; often with reference to that of the Commonwealth realms.

  • 2

    governmentThe government of a monarchy; often with reference to one that is a member of the Commonwealth realms.

  • 3

    lawA Crown attorney.

crownnoun詞源 1/kɹaʊ̯n/

  • 1

    businessclothingfashionA royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.

    • Before so many of Europe's crowns came tumbling off the heads of their royal owners, Continental Europe could show a rich variety in the matter of royal trains.
  • 2

    A wreath or band for the head, especially one given as reward of victory or a mark of honor.

  • 3

    Any reward of victory or mark of honor.

    • the martyr’s crown
  • 4

    Imperial or regal power, or those who wield it.

  • 5

    The sovereign (in a monarchy), as head of state.

    • A parliament may be diſſolved by the demiſe of the crown.
  • 6

    The state, the government (headed by a monarch).

    • Treasure recovered from shipwrecks automatically becomes property of the Crown.
    • Large arrears of pay were due to the civil and military servants of the crown; and only forty thousand pounds remained in the Exchequer.
  • 7

    datedslangThe police (referring to Crown Victoria police cars).

  • 8

    The top part of something:

    • [...]if he awake, / From toe to crowne hee'l fill our skin with pinches, / Make vs ſtrange ſtuffe.
    • In more than twenty things, which I ſet down; / This done, I twenty more had in my Crown, / And they again began to multiply, / Like ſparks that from the coals of fire do fly.
另外 29 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    medicinesciencesThe top part of something:

  • 10

    lifestylereligionThe top part of something:

  • 11

    The top part of something:

    • Huge Trunks of Trees, fell'd from the ſteepy Crown / Of the bare Mountains, rowl with Ruin down.
    • We walk’d together on the crown/Of a high mountain which look’d down/Afar from its proud natural towers/Of rock and forest, on the hills—/The dwindled hills! begirt with bowers/And shouting with a thousand rills.
  • 12

    The top part of something:

  • 13

    The top part of something:

    • Watt was beginning to tire of running his eyes up and down this highway, when a figure, human apparently, advancing along its crown, arrested, and revived, his attention.
  • 14

    The top part of something:

    • The arch failed first at the crown, then at the quarterings, and finally at the springings.
  • 15

    The top part of something:

  • 16

    The top part of something:

  • 17

    The top part of something:

  • 18

    businessforestryThe top part of something:

    • Holonym: canopy
  • 19

    architectureA kind of spire or lantern formed by converging flying buttresses.

  • 20

    Splendor; culmination; acme.

    • […] happie in our mutual help/ And mutual love, the Crown of all our bliſs/ Ordain'd by thee, […]
  • 21

    Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress); (translation) various currencies known by similar names in their native languages, such as the korona, koruna, krona, króna, krone.

  • 22

    historicalA former predecimalization British coin worth five shillings.

    • Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.
  • 23

    historicalA coin or note worth five shillings in various countries that are or were in the British Commonwealth, such as Ireland or Jamaica.

    • There is no difficulty getting married in Jamaica, is there? No, it only costs half a crown.
    • Maggie Murphy had some knickers that she bought in Bagenalstown, an interlock of knickers that she got for a half a crown.
  • 24

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesThe part of a plant where the root and stem meet.

  • 25

    anatomydentistrymedicineThe part of a tooth above the gums.

  • 26

    dentistrymedicinesciencesA prosthetic covering for a tooth.

  • 27

    nauticaltransportA knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling.

  • 28

    nauticaltransportThe part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet.

    • The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up.
  • 29

    nauticaltransportThe rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line.

  • 30

    mediaprintingpublishingA standard size of printing paper measuring 20 × 15 inches.

  • 31

    mediaprintingpublishingA standard size of writing paper measuring 19 × 15 inches.

  • 32

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA monocyclic ligand having three or more binding sites, capable of holding a guest in a central location.

  • 33

    engineeringfirearmsgovernmentA rounding or smoothing of the barrel opening.

  • 34

    geometrymathematicssciencesThe area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.

  • 35

    cookingfoodlifestyleA whole bird with the legs and wings removed to produce a joint of white meat.

    • When these TV chefs show you that they can cook a turkey crown in less than two hours; they aren't magicians or have secret turkey suppliers. The twenty minute per pound rule is based on our grandparents' ovens.
  • 36

    A formal hat worn by women to Sunday church services; a church crown.

    • "His [Barack Obama's] unofficial slogan 'fired up and ready to go!' was borrowed from an 'old lady in a church crown [Sunday best hat]."
  • 37

    hobbieshorologylifestyleThe knurled knob or dial, on the outside of a watch case, used to wind it or adjust the hands.

crownadj詞源 1/kɹaʊ̯n/

  • 1

    Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.

    • crown prince
  • 2

    Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.

    • a crown fire

crownverb詞源 1/kɹaʊ̯n/

  • 1

    To place a crown on the head of.

    • The king of the Huns was crowned with steel, and rode a stallion red,/Saying: “Proud must my father’s spirit feel of me who crowned my head […]”
  • 2

    To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc.

    • Her, vvho faireſt does appear, / Crovvn her Queen of all the year.
  • 3

    To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.

    • Thou […] hast crowned him with glory and honour.
  • 4

    To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.

    • the grove that crowns yon tufted hill
    • To crown the whole, came a proposition.
  • 5

    To declare (someone) a winner.

    • New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.
  • 6

    medicinesciencesTo have its head's surface appear in the vaginal opening during the birthing process.

    • The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
    • You will see the baby's head crowning during contractions, at which time you must prepare to assist the mother in the delivery of the baby.
  • 7

    To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, such as the face of a machine pulley.

  • 8

    To hit on the head.

    • ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended. She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    video-gamesTo shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.

  • 10

    In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.

    • “Crown me!” I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.
  • 11

    firefightinggovernmentTo spread to the crowns of the trees and thence move from tree to tree independent of the surface fire.

  • 12

    engineeringfirearmsgovernmentTo widen the opening of the barrel.

  • 13

    governmentmilitarypoliticsTo effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.

  • 14

    nauticaltransportTo lay the ends of the strands of (a knot) over and under each other.

  • 15

    vulgarslangTo have its topmost part emerge partially from the body, as a result of heightened internal pressure in the bowels.

  • 16

    vulgarslangTo struggle to hold back an imminent, crowning bowel movement.

    • Where's the bathroom, I'm crowning here!
  • 17

    slangTo shoot (someone) in the head.

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