喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture 'fashion' as making and shaping — giving something a form with your hands. From 'the way a thing is shaped' grows 'the way a thing is done' (manner), and from there 'the shape of the moment' — the styles of clothes and looks that everyone is shaping themselves into right now.

可以想成「動手把東西塑出形狀」這個畫面：用手把材料捏成一個樣子。從「東西被塑成的樣子」長出「做事情的樣子（方式）」，…更多收起可以想成「動手把東西塑出形狀」這個畫面：用手把材料捏成一個樣子。從「東西被塑成的樣子」長出「做事情的樣子（方式）」，再從那裡長出「當下大家正把自己塑成的樣子」——也就是此刻流行的衣著、打扮與風尚。fashion 的根本畫面比較像一隻正在塑形的手，先塑物、再塑做法、最後塑出一個時代的潮流。

原始詞典資料9 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。

fashionnoun/ˈfæʃən/

  • 1

    A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

    • The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
  • 2

    Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.

    • Check out the latest in fashion.
    • He had always been interested in fashion, so he decided to take a sewing class.
  • 3

    A style or manner in which something is done.

    • the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
    • Ophelia: My lord, he hath importuned me with love in honourable fashion. Lord Polonius: Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.
  • 4

    The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

    • I do not like the fashion of your garments.
    • The fashion of his countenance was altered.
  • 5

    datedPolite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

    • men of fashion

fashionverb/ˈfæʃən/

  • 1

    To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.

    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
    • […] a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
  • 2

    datedTo make in a standard manner; to work.

    • Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
  • 3

    datedTo fit, adapt, or accommodate to.

    • Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people.
  • 4

    obsoleteTo forge or counterfeit.

    • Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion feet.

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。