核心畫面
Doing is the act of 'do' turned into a thing you can point at — the having-done-it. When you ask whose doing this was, you're pointing back to the hand behind it. From there it stretches two ways: the effort a doing takes ('take some doing'), and the whole bundle of things a person is busy doing ('doings').
可以想成 doing 是把動詞「do」凝成一個可以指著看的東西——「做出來這件事」本身。問「這是誰的 doing」,…更多收起
可以想成 doing 是把動詞「do」凝成一個可以指著看的東西——「做出來這件事」本身。問「這是誰的 doing」,其實是把手指回那個動手的人。從這個畫面往外伸出兩條線:一條講這件事「做起來要花多少力」(take some doing),一條講一個人手上正在忙的那一堆事(doings)。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。
doingnoun詞源 1/ˈduːɪŋ/
- 1
A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
- This is his doing. (= "He did it.")
- Draining that swamp is going to take some doing!
doingintj詞源 2/dɔɪŋ/
- 1
The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。