你讓它跑，而且跑得遠
上一個家族講的是「誰在出力」，這個家族講的是出力之後被送出去的那個東西：車子、球。都是你讓它走，而且走得遠。
noun · A2
The activity of controlling a car, truck, bus or similar vehicle and making it go where you want, including how well or how badly a person does it.
開車（這件事）
核心畫面
Driving can be pictured as drive caught in the middle of happening: something is being pushed along and kept moving, and the word points at whatever is doing the pushing. A small wheel keeps the rest of the clock turning. Wind keeps the rain moving sideways at the window. A wish keeps a person going back to work on the same thing for years. And when your hands are the thing doing the pushing, what you are doing is driving a car, or sending a golf ball down the fairway.
「driving」可以想成：drive 正在發生的樣子——有東西被推著往前，而這個字指的是「在推的那一邊」。時鐘裡的…更多收起
「driving」可以想成：drive 正在發生的樣子——有東西被推著往前，而這個字指的是「在推的那一邊」。時鐘裡的小輪子推著其他零件轉。風推著雨橫著打上窗戶。一個念頭推著人一年一年做同一件事。而當出力的是你的手，那就是你在開一台車，或是把高爾夫球送到球場另一頭。From the word’s history
The packet's Wiktionary entry traces driving to Middle English dryvyng and Old English drifende, the present participle of the verb that became drive, so the form has always meant something like the one that is pushing.
packet 裡的 Wiktionary 記載，driving 來自中古英語 dryvyng、古英語 drīfende，是後來的 drive 這個動詞的現在分詞（drive 加 -ing）。這跟核心畫面一致：這個字從一開始就是「正在推的那一個」。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract supplied in packet, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:460243249 and :460256035)
From the picture
Also in this word
adjective · C1
Used in front of a noun for the thing that supplies the force and keeps something else moving: the part of a machine that turns the rest, or the feeling inside a person that keeps them going.
帶動…的；推動…的
adjective · B2
The driving force behind something is the person or the thing that gives it its energy and keeps it moving, so that it would probably slow down or stop without them.
推動的力量；幕後推手
adjective · C1
A driving ambition is a very strong wish to do or achieve something, the kind that keeps pushing a person on for years.
強烈的企圖心；一心想做的事
adjective · B2
Driving rain or driving snow falls very hard and fast and is blown almost sideways at you, so it hits things instead of just falling on them.
狂掃的；橫打的（雨、雪）
原始詞典資料6 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。
drivingadj詞源 1/ˈdɹaɪvɪŋ/
- 1
That drives (a mechanism or process).
- But the dull, cool, calculating effect given cumulatively through Stalin’s long career, the air of a great glacier moving slowly and by the easiest path to overwhelm some Alpine valley, is only part of the picture. At various times - and especially in his early career - the calm of his general manner was broken, and expression given to the driving emotions that possessed him.
- 2
That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent (of wind, rain, etc)
drivingnoun詞源 2/ˈdɹaɪvɪŋ/
- 1
The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
- […] with all its drivings of cattle and all its tithe battles, and all the killings and maimings consequent upon those battles, […]
- 2
In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
- There had been the whisky and Perrier in the morning but, in my ignorance of alcoholics then, I could not imagine one whisky harming anyone who was driving in an open car in the rain.
- Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.
- 3
golfhobbieslifestyleThe act of driving the ball; hitting the ball a long distance, especially from the tee to the putting green.
- Heigh-ho! Sing heigh-ho! my Golf is most shocking; My driving is topping, my caddie's still mocking.
- Ever since I started talking to myself with this new attitude toward my driving and my performance on the first tee and the first few holes, I have experienced consistently better performance with my driver.
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。