喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture cloth up close: separate threads crossing each other so many times that they hold together as one sheet. Pull a few and the whole thing . English uses that weave as a picture for anything held together the same way — a society made of relationships and habits, a building made of walls and roof.

可以想成：把布拉近了看——一根一根的線互相交錯太多次，於是撐成了一整片。抽掉幾根，整片就鬆了。英文把這個「織」的畫面…更多收起可以想成：把布拉近了看——一根一根的線互相交錯太多次，於是撐成了一整片。抽掉幾根，整片就鬆了。英文把這個「織」的畫面借去形容任何以同樣方式撐住的東西：一個由關係和習慣織成的社會，一棟由牆和屋頂撐起來的建築。

From the picture

撐住整體的結構

把布的織法借出去：不管是社會還是房子，都是靠許多部分彼此交纏才立得住，抽掉幾條就會鬆開。

social structure · noun · B2

the basic structure of a society — its way of life, relationships, and traditions.

結構；社會結構

Also in this word

cloth · noun · A2

cloth used for making clothes, curtains, and other things you sew.

布料

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。

fabricnoun/ˈfæb.ɹɪk/

  • 1

    archaicAn edifice or building.

    • Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.
    • They withdrew from the gate, as if to depart, but he presently thought he heard them amongst the trees on the other side of the fabric, and soon became convinced that they had not left the abbey.
  • 2

    archaicThe act of constructing, construction, fabrication.

    • Tithe was received by the bishop […] for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
  • 3

    archaicThe structure of anything, the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship, texture, make.

    • cloth of a beautiful fabric
  • 4

    The physical material of a building.

    • This church dates back to the 11th century, though the great majority of its fabric is fifteenth century or later.
  • 5

    The framework underlying a structure.

    • the fabric of our lives
    • Only with the second actor, can plot, […] the reaction of man on man, be knit into the very fabric of dramatic art.
  • 6

    A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.

    • Near-synonym: cloth (not always differentiated)
    • cotton fabric
  • 7

    The texture of a cloth.

  • 8

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesThe appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    archaeologyhistoryhuman-sciencesThe fired clay material of pottery artifacts.

  • 10

    computingengineeringmathematicsInterconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.

    • The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.

fabricverb/ˈfæb.ɹɪk/

  • 1

    To cover with fabric.

    • Fabricking and Carpeting a Room. If your ballroom's walls are in need of a paint job, or the space feels cavernous, or your tent is just looking too bare, you can have the ceiling and walls draped with fabric to create an intimate enclave.

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。