核心畫面

A single drop gathering at the edge of something, hanging for a moment, and falling. Then another. Nothing pours and nothing rushes — it arrives one drop at a time, and you can hear each one land. Everything this word does comes out of that slow repeated drop: the sound of it, the stuff that collects underneath it, and the state of being wet enough to produce it.

可以想成一滴水在邊緣慢慢聚起來,懸著一下,然後落下。接著又一滴。沒有沖、沒有流,就是一滴一滴來,每一滴落地都聽得見。更多收起可以想成一滴水在邊緣慢慢聚起來,懸著一下,然後落下。接著又一滴。沒有沖、沒有流,就是一滴一滴來,每一滴落地都聽得見。這個字的三個意思都是從這個慢慢重複的動作長出來的:那個聲音、底下接住的東西,還有「濕到會這樣滴」的狀態。

One branch

一滴一滴落下

三個意思站在同一個動作的三個位置:動作本身、動作留下的東西、會產生這個動作的狀態。

noun · B1

The falling of a liquid in small separate drops, or the sound that makes. In the plural, drippings can mean the drops that have fallen.

滴水(聲);滴落

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。

drippingnoun/ˈdɹɪpɪŋ/

  • 1

    Solid animal fat, traditionally collected from dripping off roasting meat.

    • They were pleased because he was not above drinking a cup of tea with them, and when the dawn came and they were still waiting they offered him a slice of bread and dripping; he was not squeamish and could eat most things now with a good appetite.
  • 2

    The sound or action of something that drips.

    • Lying in bed, I could hear drippings from the leaky roof.
  • 3

    The use of a drip tip to drip e-liquid directly onto the atomizer of an e-cigarette.

    • When dripping, it can be eaiser to flood your atomizer. I suggest to only add the amount of E-liquid that you plan on vaping at that particular moment.

drippingadj/ˈdɹɪpɪŋ/

  • 1

    very wet.

    • I am sure that the whole scene, with its dripping bamboo forest, every tree festooned with fern, orchid and creeper, filled him with disgust—all so different from the deserts and oases of his lost Bokhara.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。