喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can start from a single feather: very thin, very light, and laid flat against what is under it. A bird is covered in thousands of them, lying in a smooth layer with nothing sticking up. Most uses of feathered keep one part of that picture — either the layer of them lying over a surface, or the thinness of the one blade turned edge-on.

可以從一根羽毛開始想：很薄、很輕，而且是貼著底下的東西平躺的。一隻鳥身上有幾千根這樣的東西，排成平順的一層，沒有一根…更多收起可以從一根羽毛開始想：很薄、很輕，而且是貼著底下的東西平躺的。一隻鳥身上有幾千根這樣的東西，排成平順的一層，沒有一根翹起來。feathered 的各種用法，多半各留下這張圖的一半——有的留「鋪成一層蓋在表面上」，有的留「單薄的一片側著」。

Three branches

真的有羽毛

這一支就是字面：羽毛真的在那裡，長在身上或被拿來做東西。

adjective · B2

Covered with feathers, or made out of feathers. It also joins onto another word to say what kind of feathers something has, as in blue-feathered or long-feathered.

有羽毛的

看起來像羽毛鋪著

從那張圖裡取走「薄薄一層、細細地鋪在表面上」，套到完全沒有羽毛的東西上。這是文學上的借用，講的是外觀像，不是說它有羽毛。

adjective · C2

Covered or edged with something light and fine, so that it looks the way feathers look. This use belongs to poetry and literary writing, and the thing doing the covering is named after with.

如羽覆蓋的

薄的一邊朝前

這一支只留下羽毛「薄」的那一面：一片葉子轉成側的，讓水或空氣抓不住它。這是划船和機械上的用法，跟前面幾個意思是概念上的連結，不代表歷史上誰先誰後。

adjective · C2

Said of the blades of oars or propellers: turned so that the flat face lies along the direction of movement, with the thin edge leading, instead of pushing against the water or the air.

順槳的

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。

featheredadj

  • 1

    Covered with feathers.

    • “Er...Feathered Omen, hoot not,” he continued uneasily, “Son of Tanit, hoot not!”
    • Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings.
  • 2

    hobbieslifestylerowingHaving the blades of oars or propellers parallel to the direction of motion.

  • 3

    businessengineeringmanufacturingHaving a finely bevelled edge.

  • 4

    Badly beaten.

  • 5

    Having a specific type or number of feathers.

    • a blue-feathered bird
  • 6

    Swift, like the flight of a feathered creature.

  • 7

    Covered or adorned with something, as if with feathers.

    • […]when at night he sees moon and stars, mountain ridges feathered with pines, jutting white capes, bold promontories[…]

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。