喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture end as the very tip of a long thing — the point of a stick, a rope, a road. Everything else grows from that one image: walk a line of TIME instead of a stick and the 'tip' becomes the moment it finishes; treat a piece of work as a stretch you travel and the 'far point' becomes its purpose or the part you handle.

可以想成：end 的核心畫面比較像一根長條東西的「最尾端」——一根棍子、一條繩、一條路最遠的那一點。其他用法都從這個…更多收起可以想成：end 的核心畫面比較像一根長條東西的「最尾端」——一根棍子、一條繩、一條路最遠的那一點。其他用法都從這個畫面長出來：把這條線改成一段「時間」，那個尖端就變成事情「結束」的那一刻；把一件工作想成一段要走完的路，那個遠端就變成你的「目標」或你「負責的那一頭」。

原始詞典資料19 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。

Endnoun

  • 1

    A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the last character of the current line.

endnoun/ɛnd/

  • 1

    The terminal point of something in space or time.

    • they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end.
    • I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
  • 2

    Share of joint responsibility.

    • Are you sure they'll honor their end of the deal?
  • 3

    The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.

    • Is there no end to this madness?
    • The new electronic switching system means expanded service and an end to irritances such as cross-talk, line-hum, and being cut off in mid-conversation.
  • 4

    Death.

    • He met a terrible end in the jungle.
    • I hope the end comes quickly.
  • 5

    The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.

    • Hold the string at both ends.
    • My father always sat at the end of the table nearest the kitchen.
  • 6

    Result.

    • O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!
    • The end was that he was thought an archfool.
  • 7

    A purpose, goal, or aim.

    • For what end should I toil?
    • The end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.
  • 8

    ball-gamescricketgamesOne of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.

    • The Pavillion End
另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    American-footballball-gamesfootballThe position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.

    • Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven […].
  • 10

    ball-gamescurlinggamesA period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.

  • 11

    mathematicssciencesAn ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)

  • 12

    That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.

    • odds and ends
    • I clothe my naked villainy / With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, / And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
  • 13

    businessmanufacturingtextilesA single warp thread.

    • Wind a warp of 459 ends 3¾ yd long, following the warp color order in Figure 1.
  • 14

    slangMoney.

    • Don't give them your ends. You jack that shit!

endverb/ɛnd/

  • 1

    To come to an end.

    • Is this movie never going to end?
    • The lesson will end when the bell rings.
  • 2

    To conclude; to bring something to an end.

    • The orchestra ended with a performance of Dvořák.
  • 3

    To finish, terminate.

    • The referee blew the whistle to end the game.
    • And on the seventh day God ended his worke[…]

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。