核心畫面

Hold one sound in your ear: many quick hits in a row on a surface, evenly spaced, and not stopping. A hand on a drum skin does it on purpose. Rain on a metal roof does it by accident. Because the ear cannot tell the two apart, English lets one word cover both — the drum being played, and anything else that arrives as that same run of beats.

先把一種聲音放在耳朵裡:一下接一下,打在某個面上,間隔很勻,而且沒有停。手打鼓皮是刻意做出來的。雨打鐵皮屋頂是自然發更多收起先把一種聲音放在耳朵裡:一下接一下,打在某個面上,間隔很勻,而且沒有停。手打鼓皮是刻意做出來的。雨打鐵皮屋頂是自然發生的。可是耳朵聽起來很像,所以英文用同一個字裝下兩邊——真的在打的那面鼓,以及任何同樣以「一串密集敲擊」抵達的聲音。

One branch

一串密集的敲擊聲

兩個意思共用同一個聽覺畫面,差別只在「是不是真的有一面鼓」。有鼓的是本義,沒鼓的是把這個聲音借去形容別的東西。

noun · B1

The playing of a drum, or the sound a drum makes while it is being played.

打鼓(聲)

原始詞典資料4 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。

drummingnoun/ˈdɹʌmɪŋ/

  • 1

    The act of beating a drum.

  • 2

    A noise resembling that of a drum being beaten.

  • 3

    In many species of catfish, the sound produced by contraction of specialized sonic muscles with subsequent reverberation through the swim bladder.

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。