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You can picture a small round open hollow that holds something — the little curved bowl you drink from. Everything else grows from that one shape: round, hollow, open at the top, made to cradle or hold. Even the trophy, the bra cup, the golf hole and your cupped hands are all 'that cup shape' applied somewhere new.

可以想成一個小小的、圓圓的、上面開口的凹容器，能盛住東西——就是你拿來喝水的那個小杯。cup 幾乎所有意思都從這個「…更多收起可以想成一個小小的、圓圓的、上面開口的凹容器，能盛住東西——就是你拿來喝水的那個小杯。cup 幾乎所有意思都從這個「圓、中空、上開口、用來盛或捧」的形狀長出來：獎盃、罩杯、高爾夫球洞、捧成杯狀的手，全都是把「杯子的形狀」搬到新的地方。

原始詞典資料33 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。

Cupname

  • 1

    informalhobbieslifestylesportsA particular trophy that is a cup; sometimes with the definite article "the".

Cupnoun

  • 1

    informalhobbieslifestylesportsA win of a championship that is awarded a cup.

  • 2

    informalhobbieslifestylesportsA win of an event comprising part of the championship, which is awarded a cup

cupnoun/ˈkʌp/

  • 1

    A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.

    • Pour the tea into the cup.
  • 2

    The contents of said vessel.

    • I drank two cups of water but still felt thirsty.
    • In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
  • 3

    A customary unit of measure

  • 4

    A customary unit of measure

  • 5

    datedA customary unit of measure

  • 6

    A customary unit of measure

  • 7

    A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.

    • The World Cup is awarded to the winner of a quadrennial football tournament.
    • Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
  • 8

    A contest for which a cup is awarded.

    • The World Cup is the world's most widely watched sporting event.
另外 14 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesThe main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.

    • Until it was disbanded in 1999, the European Cup-Winners Cup was contested annually by the winners of Europe's national cups.
    • Wallace had the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Scottish Cups in the same season.
  • 10

    golfhobbieslifestyleA cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.

    • The ball just misses the cup.
  • 11

    A container in which dice are held and shaken before being thrown.

  • 12

    Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.

    • cider cup
    • gin cup
  • 13

    A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.

    • Players of contact sports are advised to wear a cup.
    • Boys, I thought I told you to let the store tell you what cup size you needed.
  • 14

    One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.

    • The cups are made of a particularly uncomfortable material.
  • 15

    One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.

    • "For cleavage to show up in these photos, a girl has to have C-cup breasts — at least that's what they told me once."
  • 16

    mathematicssciencesThe symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.

  • 17

    human-sciencesmysticismphilosophyA suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.

  • 18

    A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.

  • 19

    A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.

  • 20

    Anything shaped like a cup.

    • the cup of an acorn
    • The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
  • 21

    historicalmedicinesciencesA cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.

  • 22

    That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.

    • O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.

cupverb/ˈkʌp/

  • 1

    To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.

    • Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
  • 2

    To hold something in cupped hands.

    • He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
  • 3

    To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.

    • We are cupping some new brands of coffee today.
  • 4

    obsoleteTo supply with cups of wine.

    • Cup us, till the world go round.
  • 5

    archaicmedicinesciencessurgeryTo apply a cup or cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.

  • 6

    engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo make concave or in the form of a cup.

    • to cup the end of a screw

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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。