核心畫面
Something that was held in one piece, under pressure, suddenly gives way all at once — it bursts outward with a bang, and whatever was contained is now everywhere. The key is the suddenness plus the outward force: not a slow leak, one violent instant.
可以想成「一直被壓住的東西，在某一瞬間整個撐破、向外炸開」：原本被容器或外殼關住的力量，不是慢慢漏出來，而是一次全部…更多收起
可以想成「一直被壓住的東西，在某一瞬間整個撐破、向外炸開」：原本被容器或外殼關住的力量，不是慢慢漏出來，而是一次全部釋放，帶著巨響，四周的東西也跟著被掀開。抓住兩個重點就好——一瞬間，而且是往外衝。這個畫面後面的每個用法，換的只是「被壓住的是什麼」。原始詞典資料14 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。
explodeverb/ɪkˈspləʊd/
- 1
To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
- The bomb explodes.
- But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
- 2
To destroy with an explosion.
- The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.
- 3
To make a violent or emotional outburst; to suddenly give expression to powerful and often negative or unpleasant emotion, especially anger.
- She exploded when I criticised her hat.
- Dobbin […] fell back in the crowd, crowing and sputtering until he reached a safe distance, when he exploded amongst the astonished market-people with shrieks of yelling laughter.
- 4
To increase suddenly.
- When pigeons can come to a spot day in and day out for a guaranteed meal, their populations explode.
- Despite these products typically costing more, the market for organic food has exploded over the last couple of decades.
- 5
mathematicssciencesTo increase arbitrarily or boundlessly.
- The function f(x) = 1/x explodes around x = 0.
- 6
To destroy violently or abruptly.
- They sought to explode the myth.
- 7
To create an exploded view of.
- Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible.
- 8
archaicTo disprove or debunk.
- Astrology is required by many famous physicians […] doubted of, and exploded by others.
- [W]henever the person who is possessed of [natural goodness] doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
- 9
To emerge suddenly.
- to explode into the mainstream; to explode onto the scene
- In recent years, words and ideas used to describe discrimination against members of historically marginalized and disadvantaged groups have seemingly exploded into the lexicon: systemic inequality, privilege, white supremacy, the patriarchy, etc.
- 10
vulgarslangTo ejaculate.
- 11
computingengineeringmathematicsTo break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
- The third check uses the exploded data stored in the array $parts and the function checkdate() to test if the date is a valid calendar date.
- 12
computingengineeringmathematicsTo decompress (data) that was previously imploded.
- I'm looking for some code that will implode data using the PKZIP method.. and explode it. PKWare sells an object that you can link with that does the job, and we have licensed this, but we are now writing 32 bit code for MS-DOS and the PKWare stuff won't work […]
- 13
To open all doors and hatches on an automobile.
- 14
Of a die, to produce the highest face result and consequently reroll.
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。