像水晶一樣清透的玻璃
把天然水晶的「透亮」借去形容人做出來的東西：這種玻璃清澈到像礦石一樣，所以直接沿用同一個字。
fine glass · noun · C2
A type of very high-quality clear glass, often used to make expensive cups, bowls, and decorations.
水晶玻璃
核心畫面
Picture a grain of sugar or a under a magnifying glass: flat faces, sharp edges, angles that repeat — a shape nobody cut, which appeared on its own as the substance hardened. Two things stand out, the regular shape and the see-through clearness, and English later borrows the clearness alone to name a kind of glass.
可以想成：把一粒糖或一片雪花放到放大鏡下看——平整的面、銳利的邊、重複出現的角度。這個形狀沒有人切過，是物質在凝固的…更多收起
可以想成：把一粒糖或一片雪花放到放大鏡下看——平整的面、銳利的邊、重複出現的角度。這個形狀沒有人切過，是物質在凝固的時候自己長出來的。畫面裡有兩個特點：形狀規則，還有透亮。後來英文把「透亮」單獨借走，拿去命名一種特別清澈的玻璃，於是同一個字既指天然的結晶，也指人做出來的高級玻璃。From the picture
Also in this word
mineral crystal · noun · C2
A small piece of a solid substance with a regular shape, formed naturally as the substance becomes solid.
結晶
quartz rock · noun · C2
A clear or nearly clear rock found in nature, or a piece of this rock.
水晶
原始詞典資料16 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。
Crystalname
- 1
A female given name from English.
- "Crystal's pretty. The name, I mean." Jewel shook her head. "It doesn't look like her. She looks like Beaver Cleaver." […] Crys chuckled. For the first time since she'd planted herself fiercely on Lusa's driveway that morning she sounded clear and transparent, like a child. Like the crystal she was.
- "No prob. I'm wired, anyway...Christa or Crystal. Why'd Kayla peg her for a stripper?" "Because Gavin said she was a dancer," I said. "Well," he said, "name a girl Crystal and what's more likely? That she'll get a Ph.D. in biomechanics, or end up shaking her tail for tips?"
- 2
A surname.
- In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them.
- 3
A ghost town in Gunnison County, Colorado.
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A town in Maine.
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A city in Minnesota.
- 6
A census-designated place in New Mexico.
- 7
A city and town in North Dakota.
- 8
A town in Wisconsin.
crystalnoun/ˈkɹɪstəl/
- 1
A solid composed of an array of atoms or molecules possessing long-range order and arranged in a pattern which is periodic in three dimensions.
- 2
A piece of glimmering, shining mineral resembling ice or glass.
- 3
A fine type of glassware, or the material used to make it.
- 4
slangCrystal meth; methamphetamine hydrochloride.
- He tells me he's been shooting crystal, which I already pretty much know because he does not bother to keep his sleeves rolled down over the needle tracks.
- 5
obsoleteA person's eye.
- Come, let's away. My loue, giue me thy Lippes: Looke to my Chattels, and my Moueables: [...] Goe, cleare they Chryſtalls. Yokefellowes in Armes, let vs to France
- 6
The glass over the dial of a watch case.
crystaladj/ˈkɹɪstəl/
- 1
Made of crystal.
- Its ceiling was crystal, around on the wall / Thickly studded were rubies and diamonds rare; / But purer than crystal, and brighter than all / Of the jewels adorning her glittering hall, / Was the mermaiden languishing there.
- The walls were crystal, and they seemed to have hundreds of different-colored lights shifting behind them.
- 2
Very clear; coherent.
- "Do I make myself clear?" / "Crystal."
- […] the more faire and chriſtall is the skie, The vglier ſeeme the cloudes that in it flye: […]
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。