喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture an engine over and something moving at an easy, speed, with no fixed place it must reach. A ship between islands, a car going up and down the same street, an empty taxi circling the block, even a baby sideways along the sofa. In every case the movement is steady, the eyes are open, and arriving is not the point.

cruising 可以想成這樣一個畫面：東西一直在動，速度不快不慢，而且沒有一個非到不可的終點。船在島跟島之間開，車…更多收起cruising 可以想成這樣一個畫面：東西一直在動，速度不快不慢，而且沒有一個非到不可的終點。船在島跟島之間開，車在同一條街來回，空計程車在市區繞圈，連扶著沙發橫著走的小孩也是這樣。共同點是：移動是穩的，眼睛是張開的，重點不在抵達，而在一路上。

From the word’s history

The supplied source analyses the word simply as cruise + -ing: the name for doing what cruise names. That is as far as the evidence in front of us goes.

手上的資料把這個字分析成 cruise + -ing，也就是「做 cruise 這件事」的名稱。再往前的來歷這裡沒有證據，就不多說。

Wiktionary via kaikki extract (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:850146676): 'By surface analysis, cruise + -ing.'

Three branches

不趕路地移動

這一組最貼近核心畫面：交通工具在走，但沒有非到不可的地方。差別只在誰在開、為了什麼。

noun · B1

The activity of taking a holiday on a cruise ship, where you live on board and the ship sails from port to port. It is also used for sailing a boat around for pleasure with no fixed place to reach.

郵輪旅遊

一邊晃一邊物色

核心畫面裡「一邊移動一邊看」的那個看，在這裡對準的是人。

noun · C1

The activity of moving around bars, parks, streets and other public places in order to find someone for casual sex. The sources mark it as slang, and it is used most often about gay men.

出去物色性伴侶

扶著東西一步一步走

把同一個慢速、有支撐、沒有終點的移動，整個搬到客廳的地板上。

noun · C1

The stage when a baby who cannot yet walk alone moves along on its feet while holding on to furniture, a wall or someone's hand. The source says it usually starts at around ten months, just before walking.

扶著東西走（嬰兒）

原始詞典資料7 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。

cruisingnoun/ˈkɹuːzɪŋ/

  • 1

    Sailing about without an exact destination, especially for pleasure.

    • Cruising is a popular activity among the over-60s.
    • Maintenance time takes away from the time for sightseeing, fishing, reading, or the other things that were the original objectives of cruising.
  • 2

    Driving around without an exact destination, as a social activity.

    • Cruising was a popular pastime for teens in this area at the time.
  • 3

    Walking unsteadily while holding onto objects such as furniture and walls: a stage in the development of ambulation (unassisted walking), typically occurring around age 10 months.

    • Cruising is a fun stage for the baby, even though there are going to be some mild falls and crying during the course of it.
  • 4

    transportDriving about a locality in search of passengers.

    • In commenting upon a suggestion of W. W. Arnheim, representing the Broadway Association, that taxicab stands be established on all one-way streets in midtown to reduce cruising, John Ullman, secretary of the Empire State Taxicab Chamber of Commerce, said that if property owners were unselfish enough to permit such stands 90 per cent of the cruising would be eradicated.
  • 5

    slangWalking or driving about a locality in search of a sex partner for casual sex, especially among gay men.

    • There was a fair amount of cruising going on at the gay party.
    • Within their [homosexuals'] own group, too, there is considerable social discrimination. In the most “respectable” class are those who do no “cruising,” i.e., picking up “friends” at random in the parks or streets.
  • 6

    slangbodybuildinghobbieslifestyleReducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off.

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。