喜樂美語
  1. 1深陷的、眼窩深的（幾乎都用來形容眼睛）

    Deep-set eyes seem to sit further back in the face than most people’s, in a deeper hollow. It is a note about the shape of a face, not a judgment, and not a medical complaint. Though actually, tired or ill eyes can look a bit sunken, and sometimes mash those two pictures together: sunken often hints that something is wrong; deep-set is just how the eyes are placed. The phrase you will meet again and again is deep-set eyes. You may occasionally see the word with other things that sit back in a surface, but eyes are the meaning that matters. It is : deep-set.

    deep-set 形容眼睛位置比一般人更往臉部深處陷，眼窩比較深。它是在描述臉的形狀，不是評價，也不是醫療問題。最常見的搭配是「deep-set eyes」，指深陷的眼睛。

    不要和凹陷的眼睛混在一起。疲倦或生病時，眼睛看起來會凹下去，常暗示有狀況；deep-set 則只是眼睛原本的位置。這個字偶爾也會用在其他往表面後面陷的東西上，但最常見的還是眼睛。它要寫成有連字號的形式。

From the word’s history

Compound of deep + set.

由 deep 和 set 合成。

Wiktionary

組成From deep + set. Set here means placed or fixed in position.

同家族的字

  • deepfar in
  • setplaced or fixed in position

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

deep-setadj

  • 1

    Set deeply below a surface, as on a face.

    • His haggard eyes were deep-set, sunken into their sockets from exhaustion.
    • Deep-set and steady, with eyelashes that many a woman had envied, they [the eyes] showed the man for what he was—a sportsman and a gentleman. And the combination of the two is an unbeatable production.
  • 2

    firmly in place; long-standing

    • deep-set beliefs
    • deep-set inequalities

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。