會孵出生命的蛋
這一組是核心畫面本身:一個把新生命包起來、等它長好的容器。差別只在尺寸——一顆看得見的蛋,或一個看不見的細胞。
egg (animal) · noun · A1
A round object with a hard shell that a female bird, snake, fish, or insect makes, with a baby animal growing inside it.
蛋、卵
Picture a rounded thing with a thin hard shell, and a life quietly growing inside it. The shell keeps the world out until the right moment, then it breaks. Almost everything English does with this word comes from one of that object's features: the life inside, the thin shell that breaks easily, the fact that you cannot see in from outside, and the plain oval shape.
Four branches
會孵出生命的蛋
這一組是核心畫面本身:一個把新生命包起來、等它長好的容器。差別只在尺寸——一顆看得見的蛋,或一個看不見的細胞。
egg (animal) · noun · A1
A round object with a hard shell that a female bird, snake, fish, or insect makes, with a baby animal growing inside it.
蛋、卵
當食物的蛋
同一顆蛋,只是我們不等牠孵出來。日常對話裡出現的 egg 大多是這一個。
egg (food) · noun · A1
An egg from a chicken that people cook and eat as food.
蛋
蛋的形狀
這一組只借形狀,不管裡面有沒有生命,也不管能不能吃。
egg-shaped object · noun · A1
An object that has the same rounded oval shape as an egg.
蛋形物
拿蛋來比喻的說法
蛋有幾個很鮮明的特點:薄殼一摔就破、破了會糊一片、從外面看不出裡面好不好、形狀又剛好像個零。英文的慣用語各自抓住其中一個特點,所以這幾句話彼此不太像,共同點是都從真的蛋長出來。
have egg on your face · noun · A1
If someone has egg on their face, they have been made to look foolish by something that went wrong, often in front of other people.
出糗、丟臉
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。
Eggname
A surname.
informalautomotivetransportvehiclesA Koenigsegg car.
The character Solas from the Dragon Age franchise (referring to his baldness).
A market town in Bregenz district, Vorarlberg, Austria.
A municipality in Uster district, Zürich canton, Switzerland.
eggnoun詞源 1/ɛɡ/
biologynatural-scienceszoologyAn approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
biologynatural-scienceszoologyAn approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
biologynatural-scienceszoologyAn approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
biologycytologymedicineSynonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
architectureA thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
hobbieslifestylesportsA thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
datedgovernmentmilitarypoliticsA thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
cellular-automatacomputingengineeringA thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
golfhobbieslifestyleA thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
datedinformalSenses relating to people.
derogatoryslurrareSenses relating to people.
derogatorydatedSenses relating to people.
Senses relating to people.
Senses relating to people.
derogatorySenses relating to people.
derogatoryobsoleteSenses relating to people.
archaicSomething regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.
computingengineeringmathematicsOne of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
eggverb詞源 1/ɛɡ/
To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
cookingfoodlifestyleTo coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
vulgardialectalTo conceive a child, especially recklessly.
eggverb詞源 2/ɛɡ/
To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
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。