核心畫面

You can picture 'dangerous' as standing close to something that could hurt you — the harm hasn't happened yet, but it's near enough that you should be careful. The most literal version is a thing that can physically or kill; the looser versions move that same sense of 'harm waiting to happen' from the body to a plan, or to a touchy subject.

可以想成「站在會傷到你的東西旁邊」:傷害還沒發生,但已經近到讓你得小心。最實在的版本是會弄傷你、甚至要命的東西;比較更多收起可以想成「站在會傷到你的東西旁邊」:傷害還沒發生,但已經近到讓你得小心。最實在的版本是會弄傷你、甚至要命的東西;比較鬆的版本,就把這份「傷害正在等著發生」的感覺,從身體挪到一個計畫上,或挪到一個碰不得的話題上。

One branch

會傷人的危險

這一族就是核心畫面本身,從「會弄傷身體」最實在的一端,慢慢放寬到「會帶來麻煩」「會踩到地雷」,但底下都是同一句話:靠近它,壞事有機會發生。

dangerous, harmful · adjective · A2

Able or likely to hurt or kill you, or to cause serious harm.

危險的

原始詞典資料3 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。

dangerousadj/ˈdeɪn.ʒ(ə.)ɹəs/

  • 1

    Full of danger.

    • Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.
    • [I]t is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.
  • 2

    Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.

    • If they incline to think you dangerous, / They have their knaviſh Arts to make you ſo.
    • And the Duke thought: The truth could be worse than he imagines, but even dangerous facts are valuable if you’ve been trained to deal with them. And there’s one place where nothing has been spared for my son—dealing with dangerous facts.
  • 3

    datedIn a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。