核心畫面
You can think of it as a person already leaning forward before the door opens — the wanting has arrived ahead of the thing itself.
門還沒開，人已經整個往前傾了。心裡對接下來要發生的事又期待又坐不住，身體先一步跑到事情前面去——腳尖朝著門口、話講得…更多收起
門還沒開，人已經整個往前傾了。心裡對接下來要發生的事又期待又坐不住，身體先一步跑到事情前面去——腳尖朝著門口、話講得比平常快、一直看時間。這股「快點開始吧」的前傾感，就是這個字要抓的畫面；它不描述事情本身，而是描述人朝著事情湊過去的那個姿態。原始詞典資料2 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。
eagernessnoun/ˈiɡɚnəs/
- 1
The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.
- The things he had to tell about...were enough to make you almost tremble with excitement, when you heard all the intimate details from an animal charmer and realized with what thrilling eagerness and anxiety the whole busy underworld was working.
- "I shouldn't have cared for Newport, or the Springs, father, truly," said Leslie, with a little hopeful flutter of eagerness in her voice, "but the real mountains, - O father!"
- 2
obsoleteTartness, sourness.
- Senvie, which is of a most biting and stinging tast, of a fierie effect,[…]serveth also to make a pretie dish of meat to be eaten, being boiled or stewed between too^([sic – meaning two]) little dishes in some convenient liquor, in such sort, as a man shall not feele it to bite at the tongues end, nor complaine of any eagernesse that it hath.
- Presently the balsamick body is wounded, and turns sour sooner or later according to the degree of the motion; for this fierce motion or working wastes the pure spirituous Balsam, and awakens the original Qualities of Saturn and Mars, viz. an astringent Eagerness, or sour hard Quality, that would not have been manifested, if this irregular Motion had not excited it.
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。