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Cursive is a style of writing in which the letters in a word join up, so the pen does not lift after every letter. Printed letters that stand apart are not cursive; joined handwriting is. You can use it as an adjective (cursive handwriting) or as a noun (write in cursive). English-speaking children used to spend years learning it; some schools still teach it, others do not, so younger and older people may not share the same habit. It is a school and handwriting word, not slang. The underlying idea is that the line of writing “runs” on without stopping.
草寫、連筆字（指字母連在一起的英文筆跡，不是中文書法的「草書」）
原始詞典資料6 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。
cursiveadj/ˈkɝsɪv/
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Running; flowing.
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Having successive letters joined together.
- Then Mambro handed me his manuscript, a sheaf of loose pages really, his cursive handwriting scrawled over them, the exaggerated tails of the f’s and the j’s, the distinct loop of the q.
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsOf or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that occurs in a straight line (in space or time).
- cursive aspect
- […] of the action or state of affairs expressed by the verb to the time of utterance; rather they express how the speaker regards the event: many grammarians distinguish between a constative aspect, in which an occurrence is simply registered as such, as something concluded, and a cursive aspect, in which the action is described in its course. (I need not add that this is an oversimplification, but there is no time for a more detailed account.)
cursivenoun/ˈkɝsɪv/
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A cursive character, letter or font.
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A manuscript written in cursive characters.
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Joined-up handwriting.
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。