核心畫面

Picture the end of a working day and money coming to you — not given, not found, not won by luck, but paid because of what you put in. Earn always keeps that shape: something comes to you, and your own effort is the reason it came.

可以想成:一天工作結束,錢進到你手上——不是別人送的,不是撿到的,也不是運氣好抽中的,是因為你付出了才給你的。ear更多收起可以想成:一天工作結束,錢進到你手上——不是別人送的,不是撿到的,也不是運氣好抽中的,是因為你付出了才給你的。earn 一直保留這個形狀:東西來到你身上,而理由是你自己做了什麼。後來來的東西不一定是錢,可能是尊敬、名聲,甚至是一頓飯。

From the picture

用表現換來的好東西

把拿到手的東西從錢換成別的:尊敬、名聲、一個位子、一次休假。付出換回報的結構完全沒變,只是這次沒有金額——所以 earn 帶著「這是他應得的」這層味道,說 She earned it 是在肯定她。

earn, deserve · verb · A2

To get something good because you have worked hard for it or you deserve it.

贏得;掙得

固定說法:earn your keep

這一支是 earn your keep 這個固定說法撐起來的:keep 在這裡是舊用法,指「食宿、養你的花費」。整串的意思是「靠做事抵掉別人養你的成本」,單看 earn 這個字看不出來,要整句記。

earn your keep · verb · A2

To do jobs for someone in return for the food and home they give you.

掙得食宿

Also in this word

earn money · verb · A2

To get money by working for it.

earn (profit or interest) · verb · A2

To make money as a profit from a business, or from money you have put in a bank.

賺得;生利

原始詞典資料12 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。

Earnname

  • 1

    A river in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, which flows into the tidal River Tay.

earnverb詞源 1/ɜːn/

  • 1

    To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.

    • You can have the s'mores: you earned them, clearing the walkway of snow so well.
    • With their hard work and dedication, they earned respect and a seat at the table.
  • 2

    To receive payment for work or for a role or position held (regardless of whether effort was applied or whether the remuneration is deserved or commensurate).

    • He earns seven million dollars a year as CEO.  My bank account is only earning one percent interest.
    • She earns more than forty thousand dollars a year in passive income from her parents' investments — that's what she gets before she even gets out of bed or lifts a finger.
  • 3

    To receive payment for work.

    • Now that you are earning, you can start paying me rent.
  • 4

    To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.

    • My CD earns me six percent!
    • In that era, all their long, hard, dangerous labor in the mines barely earned them even enough to eat!
  • 5

    To achieve by being worthy of.

    • to earn a spot in the top 20

earnverb詞源 2

  • 1

    archaicdialectalTo curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.

  • 2

    obsoletedialectalOf milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.

earnverb詞源 3

  • 1

    obsoletedialectalTo strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something).

    • And ever as he rode, his hart did earne / To prove his puissance in battell brave.
  • 2

    obsoletedialectalTo grieve.

    • [M]y manly heart doth erne. […] Boy, briſsle thy Courage vp: For Falſtaffe hee is dead, and wee muſt erne therefore.

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。