真的在哭
最直接的一層：眼淚和聲音都是真的。
noun · A2
The act of producing tears from your eyes, and the sound that goes with it, usually because you are unhappy, hurt or upset.
哭（哭泣這件事、哭聲）
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: a sound coming through a wall. You cannot see who it is, but you stop walking, because crying is a sound that will not let you carry on as if nothing were happening. Two of the word's uses are that sound for real — the crying itself, and the person doing it. The other two keep only the second half of the picture: nothing is in tears, but something is calling out loudly enough that ignoring it feels wrong.
可以想成一陣穿過牆傳過來的哭聲。你看不到是誰，但腳步會停下來。因為哭聲就是這樣的聲音：它不讓你當作沒事發生。這個字的…更多收起
可以想成一陣穿過牆傳過來的哭聲。你看不到是誰，但腳步會停下來。因為哭聲就是這樣的聲音：它不讓你當作沒事發生。這個字的四個用法裡，有兩個是真的在哭——那陣聲音本身，還有正在哭的那個人。另外兩個留下的是畫面的後半段：沒有人掉眼淚，但有一件事在大聲喊，喊到你沒辦法假裝沒聽見。From the word’s history
Crying is simply cry plus -ing, which turns the action into a thing you can name and describe.
crying 就是 cry 加上 -ing 來的：-ing 把一個動作變成可以指稱、可以拿來形容的東西。所以它既能當「哭這件事」的名詞，也能放在名詞前面說「正在哭的」。
Wiktionary entries for crying (noun/adjective/verb), etymology_text 'From cry + -ing.' supplied in the evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:996651945:10301)
Two branches
沒有人在哭，但事情在喊
哭聲最強的地方是「你沒辦法不理它」。這兩個說法借走的就是這一半。
adjective · B2
Said about something that is very sad or very wrong, especially when it could have been avoided and nobody stopped it.
太不應該了、令人惋惜
原始詞典資料5 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。
cryingadj/ˈkɹaɪ̯.ɪŋ/
- 1
That cries.
- The crying child on the street was evidently lost.
- 2
That demands action or attention; desperate.
- There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
- 3
That deserves rebuke or censure; deplorable.
- It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!
cryingnoun/ˈkɹaɪ̯.ɪŋ/
- 1
The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.
- Their constant cryings kept us awake!
- […] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]
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。