核心畫面
The state of having clothes on you. Not the act of putting them on — the finished condition: you look at someone and see that clothes are there, and often what kind. From that plain state, English builds phrases that push it further and further up: merely covered, then eye-catching, then in your very best.
可以想成「身上衣服已經在了」的那個狀態——不是穿的動作，而是穿完之後的樣子：你看著一個人，看見他衣服穿著，而且常常還…更多收起
可以想成「身上衣服已經在了」的那個狀態——不是穿的動作，而是穿完之後的樣子：你看著一個人，看見他衣服穿著，而且常常還看得出穿的是哪一種。從這個很素的狀態出發，英文再往上加碼：先是「有穿」，接著是「穿得讓人看一眼就記得」，再上去是「穿上最正式最好的那一套」。原始詞典資料5 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。
dressedadj/ˈdɹɛst/
- 1
Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.
- 2
Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
- 3
Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).
- 4
Wearing a dress.
- No longer would our profession’s stoical symbol of equality be the blindfolded, long-dressed lady holding scales. She would be replaced by a mini-skirted beautiful chick whose blindfold has been pushed up to be used as a head band.
- hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons
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。