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In the garden, to deadhead a plant is to pick or cut off the flowers that have already died or are dying. do this so the plant does not spend its strength making seeds from old blooms, and so it may make more new flowers. You deadhead roses, petunias, and many other plants through the season; it is a small, ordinary job, said by people who grow flowers, in speech and in garden notes. The “head” here is the flower head — the round top of the bloom — not a person’s head. Though actually, the same spelling has other lives in English: a deadhead can be someone let into a show without paying, or a dull person who adds nothing, and buses or planes can deadhead when they run empty. Those uses grew from old theatre talk (a “dead head”), probably like dead weight or deadwood — someone who brings in no money — and only later a lazy person. This entry is the garden one: you are taking the dead flower heads off.
摘枯花、剪掉凋謝的花
組成From dead + head. For this sense, head is the flower head that has died. Other senses of the same spelling come from theatre slang for people admitted without paying (a dead head), probably in analogy to dead weight or deadwood. Some writers even point to Latin caput mortuum, an old alchemy name for leftover stuff after distilling — that is a “perhaps,” not a sure garden origin.
原始詞典資料16 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。
Deadheadnoun/ˈdɛdhɛd/
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slangA fan of the rock band Grateful Dead.
- Out on the road today / I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
deadheadnoun/ˈdɛdhɛd/
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A person either admitted to a theatrical or musical performance without charge, or paid to attend.
- Among the Romans.... The free admission tickets were small ivory death's heads, and specimens of these are to be seen in the Museum of Naples. From this custom, it is stated, that we derive our word “Deadhead,” as denoting one who has a free entrance to places of amusement.
- […] we critics were not his fellow-guests, but simply deadheads whose business it was to "dress the house" and write puffs.
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An employee of a transport company, especially a pilot or flight attendant, traveling as a passenger for logistical reasons, for example to return home or travel to the next assignment.
- Are you my deadhead to Miami?
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Anyone traveling for free, without paying the expected fare.
- With the check came two through tickets—good on the railroad from Hawkeye to Washington via New York—and they were “deadhead” tickets, too, which had been given to Senator Dilworthy by the railway companies. Senators and representatives were paid thousands of dollars by the government for traveling expenses, but they always traveled “deadhead” both ways, and then did as any honorable, high-minded men would naturally do—declined to receive the mileage tendered them by the government. The Senator had plenty of railway passes, and could. easily spare two to Laura—one for herself and one for a male escort.
- I reckon I won't take the vote of any deadhead passenger.
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A train or truck moved between cities with no passengers or freight, in order to make it available for service.
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A person staying at a lodging, such as a hotel or boarding house, without paying rent; freeloader.
- For the Caput mortuum (or deadhead, in vulgar phrase) is apt to be furnished with a Venter vivus, or, as we may say, a lively appetite.
- Haviland had a sense of humor; it would make a story too good to keep--the new oil operator, the magnificent and mysterious New York financier, a “deadhead” at the Ajax. Oh, murder!
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A stupid or boring person; dullard.
- 1967, James Jones, Go to the Widow-Maker, Delacorte Press (1967), 72, “Listen, you two deadheads,” he growled at them, more viciously energetic than he meant, and both turned to stare. He softened his tone. “What's going on here, anyway? What kind of a morgue is this? Is this any way to spend my last four days in town? Come on, let's all go out and do something.”
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A tree or tree branch fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable body of water, partially submerged or rising nearly the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk; snag.
- A portable sawmill crew dredges the riverbed for sunken deadheads, many of which drowned during the hell-for-leather log-drives of the glory days. Rows of these mud-stained corpses are drawn up on shore at the old landings—all in perfect condition, and some of great value, for no such pine exists in the north woods today.
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slangDriftwood.
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slangA zombie.
- I was dreaming about working at Wal-Mart before the deadheads came.
deadheadverb/ˈdɛdhɛd/
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To admit to a performance without charge.
- […] the "puffing" system in criticism, whereby newspaper people were deadheaded in exchange for complimentary notices.
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To travel as a deadhead, or non-paying passenger.
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To drive an empty vehicle.
- Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.
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To send (a person or message) for free.
- Washington suggested that she get some old friend of the family to come with her, and said the Senator would “deadhead” him home again as soon as he had grown tired, of the sights of the capital.
- He said that if the operator had taken $800 and sent the message at the regular rate, which was twenty-five cents, it would have been all right, as the Jew would be punished for trying to bribe a military operator; but when the operator took the $800 and then sent the message deadhead, he couldn't stand it, and he would never relent.
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agriculturebusinesshorticulture(transitive) To remove spent or dead blossoms from a plant.
- If you deadhead your roses regularly, they will bloom all season.
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。