核心畫面
You can picture extend as something reaching out and growing longer or farther: a line, a piece of land, an arm — it stretches from where it is now to somewhere further. Everything else is this same act of 'making it reach further', applied to time, size, scope, or even a polite gesture.
可以想成一條線、一塊土地、一隻手臂從現在的位置往外伸長、往遠處延伸——本來到這裡，現在伸得更遠。其他用法幾乎都是同一…更多收起
可以想成一條線、一塊土地、一隻手臂從現在的位置往外伸長、往遠處延伸——本來到這裡，現在伸得更遠。其他用法幾乎都是同一個動作：把某個東西「往外推得更遠」，只是推的對象換成時間、大小、範圍，甚至一個禮貌的姿態。原始詞典資料11 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。
extendverb/ɛkˈstɛnd/
- 1
To increase in extent.
- 2
To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
- The desert extended for miles in all directions.
- Szechuan extends from the Wushan Mountains in the east to the Chinsha River — the upper reaches of the Yangtse — in the west.
- 3
To cause to increase in extent.
- 4
To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- 5
To straighten (a limb).
- 6
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- to extend credit to a valued customer
- 7
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
- There's little stew left, but we can always extend it by adding more potatoes.
- The skim milk and middlings should be mixed in a tub or barrel, and, if the supply of milk is short , it may be extended with water.
- 8
lawTo value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
- 9
Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
- The classes Person and Dog extend the class Animal.
- 10
governmentmilitarypoliticsTo reenlist for a further period.
- Two years later, back to amtracs, this time at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, and I liked it so much I extended.
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。