喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to picture 'dash': a quick, movement that hits or rushes — your body bolting forward, or something flung hard against a wall. From that one burst of fast, striking motion the word spreads: a sudden run, a splash of something thrown in, a quick stroke of the pen (the mark), and the lively energy of someone who moves with flair.

可以想成： dash 是一種又快又用力的動作——不是猛地往前衝，就是把東西用力一摔、撞上去。從這一下「快而帶勁的動」…更多收起可以想成： dash 是一種又快又用力的動作——不是猛地往前衝，就是把東西用力一摔、撞上去。從這一下「快而帶勁的動」往外散開：一段突然的飛奔、丟進去的一點點東西、筆尖快快畫的一道（破折號），還有一個人做事帶著的那股俐落衝勁。

原始詞典資料30 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。

Dashname

  • 1

    A topographic surname.

  • 2

    rareA male given name transferred from the surname.

dashnoun/ˈdæʃ/

  • 1

    mediapublishingtypographyAny of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).

  • 2

    computingengineeringmathematicsAny of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).

  • 3

    The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.

  • 4

    A short run, flight.

    • When the feds came they did the dash.
  • 5

    A rushing or violent onset.

    • The oar squeaks, a dash sound like moon-hustle on the river:
  • 6

    Violent strike; a whack.

    • They say that I’m way too cold, I never get tired of rappin My word is bang where I come from Watch be one work is magic Do it and dash it Smile on MAT No way this peng one acting Who got whacked and who got slapped And who got spared by dashes
  • 7

    A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.

    • Add a dash of vinegar.
  • 8

    A slight admixture.

    • There is a dash of craziness in his personality.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Ostentatious vigor.

    • Aren't we full of dash this morning?
  • 10

    A bribe or gratuity; a gift.

    • The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash" to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.
    • Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law, from 8 to 20 rods according to the status of the man[…]The dowry is made small because whatsoever a woman farms or reaps during her life time is by native custom the property of her parents."
  • 11

    datedA stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)

    • Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband. Comment: Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.
    • Who the dash is this person whom none of us know? and what the dash does he do here?
  • 12

    informalEllipsis of dashboard.

    • -i hope you find at least one thing on your dash that will make you laugh today.
    • i cannot tell you how happy it makes me when i see my dash filled with selfies from other folks who look like me.
  • 13

    A prime symbol.

dashverb/ˈdæʃ/

  • 1

    To run quickly or for a short distance.

    • He dashed across the field.
    • As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.
  • 2

    informalTo leave or depart.

    • I have to dash now. See you soon.
  • 3

    To destroy by striking (against).

    • He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
    • There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
  • 4

    To throw violently.

    • The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
    • If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.
  • 5

    To sprinkle; to splatter.

    • On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade white-dashing fall.
    • The very source and fount of Day Is dash’d with wandering isles of night.
  • 6

    datedTo mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.

    • to dash wine with water
  • 7

    To ruin; to destroy.

    • Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
    • Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win were dashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.
  • 8

    To dishearten; to sadden.

    • Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To complete hastily.

    • He dashed down his eggs.
    • She dashed off her homework.
  • 10

    To draw or write quickly; jot.

    • "Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.
    • Going out the door, he grabbed a windbreaker and dashed a note to his father and left it on the entry table.
  • 11

    datedDamn (in forming oaths).

    • Dash his impudence! Who is that scoundrel?

dashintj/ˈdæʃ/

  • 1

    Damn!

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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。