垂著晃的東西
這一族就是核心畫面本身：東西吊在上面，下面鬆鬆地晃。
verb · B2
To hang down with the lower end loose, so that it swings a little; also, to hold or let something hang in this way.
垂掛；晃盪
核心畫面
Picture something held at the top and free at the bottom: a bulb on a wire, a charm on a zip, your legs over the edge of a pier. Nothing is holding the lower end, so the smallest touch or step sets it swinging. That loose, swinging bottom end is what makes dangle different from hang, and every other use of the word keeps it — the thing that swings can be an object, a small ornament, an offer held above someone's reach, or a puck that seems tied to the end of a stick.
可以想成一個畫面：上面被吊住，下面是自由的。電線上的燈泡、拉鍊上的小掛飾、你坐在碼頭邊垂下去的腿。因為下面沒人固定，…更多收起
可以想成一個畫面：上面被吊住，下面是自由的。電線上的燈泡、拉鍊上的小掛飾、你坐在碼頭邊垂下去的腿。因為下面沒人固定，輕輕一碰、走一步，它就開始晃。這個「下面會晃」正是 dangle 和 hang 不一樣的地方。而 dangle 的其他用法，好像都還留著這個晃動：晃的可以是一個東西，可以是耳環下面的小垂飾，可以是一個被舉在別人搆不到的地方的好處，也可以是一顆彷彿被線吊在球桿上的冰球。From the word’s history
The source entry says the origin is uncertain, but likely North Germanic — beside Danish dingle and Swedish dangla, 'to swing about'. If that is right, the swinging was in the word from the start, which fits a word that means more than simply 'hang'.
來源說法並不確定。詞源資料說它可能來自北歐語族，和丹麥語 dingle、瑞典語 dangla（來回擺盪）是同一家人。如果這條線索對，那「會晃」從一開始就在字裡面。這也剛好對上它今天的用法：dangle 說的從來不只是「掛著」。
Wiktionary entry for dangle (kaikki extract supplied in this packet: kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:841566198)
Three branches
把好處吊在眼前
同樣的畫面換成了人：東西被舉在別人看得到、卻拿不到的位置。差別在於這次吊著的不是實物，是一個好處。
verb · C1
To dangle something in front of somebody is to keep something they want — money, a job, a chance — where they can see it, so that they will do what you want.
利誘；吊胃口
冰球場上的過人（俚語）
這一族是把晃動搬到球場上：晃的不是掛件，是球和防守者的重心。
verb · C1
In ice hockey and lacrosse: to get past a defender or the goalie by moving the puck or ball with quick, tricky stick moves while keeping it on your stick.
盤球過人
原始詞典資料10 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。
dangleverb/ˈdæŋ.ɡəl/
- 1
To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
- His feet are dangling in the water.
- He'd rather on a gibbet dangle / Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.
- 2
slangball-gamesgameshobbiesThe action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
- He dangled around three players and the goalie to score.
- 3
To hang or trail something loosely.
- I like to sit on the edge and dangle my feet in the water.
- 4
To put forth as a possibility.
- That it happens to have been produced under the imprimatur of Michael Bay dangles the possibility of poor taste, but unfortunately, bombast and conspicuous consumption are nowhere to be found.
- 5
datedTo trail or follow around.
- To dangle at the elbow of a wench who can't make up her mind to accept the common title of wife, till she has been courted a certain number of weeks — so the old blinker, her father, says.
- 6
medicinesciencesOf a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
- Record the time and duration of dangling, patient's pulse and respirations and patient's general tolerance of the procedure. […] The next step usually in getting the patient out of bed is sitting […]
- [P]ivot to bring the patient's legs over the side of the bed. Be Smart! Stay with the patient as he dangles.
- 7
medicinesciencesTo position (a patient) in this way.
- Using proper body mechanics for dangling a patient at the side of the bed.
danglenoun/ˈdæŋ.ɡəl/
- 1
An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
- The example of Oswald will show how the different operations of a dangle and a barium meal would work more efficiently together.
- 2
slangball-gamesgameshobbiesThe action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
- That was a sick dangle for a great goal!
- 3
A dangling ornament or decoration.
- So her father wrote to Mrs. Herring, and one day she arrived and turned out to be a little, lean old lady with a dark brown mole on one leathery cheek and wearing a black bonnet decorated with jet dangles, like tiny fishing rods.
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。