核心畫面

One way to hold this word: 'face' is the side of a thing that is turned for people to see. 'Facing' can be pictured as living around that side in two ways. Sometimes it means turned towards that side — two things looking straight at each other, like two seats or two pages. Sometimes it means the layer that makes that side — the stone put over a wall, the small piece of cloth sewn to an inside edge, the band of colour on a collar and cuffs. When you meet the word, a useful first question is whether it is talking about a direction or about a layer.

可以想成:face 是一樣東西給人看的那一面。facing 的幾個意思,都繞著這一面轉。一邊是「朝著那一面」——兩樣更多收起可以想成:face 是一樣東西給人看的那一面。facing 的幾個意思,都繞著這一面轉。一邊是「朝著那一面」——兩樣東西正對著,像對坐的位子、攤開的兩頁。另一邊是「做出那一面的東西」——蓋在牆外的一層材料、縫在衣服邊上的一塊布、領口袖口那一圈顏色。看到 facing,先問一句:這裡講的是方向,還是講外面那一層?

One branch

貼在表面的那一層

如果 face 是「給人看的那一面」,那 facing 也可以想成「做出那一面的東西」:一層蓋在外側、決定別人看到什麼的材料。這是幫助理解的連結,不是歷史來源的說法。

noun · C1

An outer layer on a wall or a building, made of a different material from the rest of it, so that the outside looks good.

外牆貼面

原始詞典資料8 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。

facingadj/ˈfeɪsɪŋ/

  • 1

    Positioned so as to face (in a particular direction)

    • (Concluded on facing page)
  • 2

    rail-transportrailwaystransportDiverging in the direction of travel.

facingnoun/ˈfeɪsɪŋ/

  • 1

    The most external portion of exterior siding.

  • 2

    businessmanufacturingsewingFabric applied to a garment edge on the underside.

  • 3

    artscraftsengineeringA powdered substance, such as charcoal or bituminous coal, applied to the face of a mould, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting.

  • 4

    governmentmilitarypoliticsThe collar and cuffs of a military coat, commonly of a different colour from the rest of the coat.

    • Red coats were worn by the King's Life Guards and Queen's Life Guards in 1645, while other regiments wore white, blue or grey. Prince Rupert's Footguards wore scarlet, and in Cromwell's army some wore scarlet coats with different facings.
  • 5

    governmentmilitarypoliticsThe movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。