- 1狀況（幾乎都用 in fine / good fettle：狀況很好）
If someone or something is in fine fettle, or in good fettle, they are healthy, cheerful, and working as they should. We almost always meet fettle inside that little phrase; by itself it means the condition or shape something is in. It has a slightly old-fashioned, British, ring — the kind of thing a or a sports writer might say after a rest: “She’s in fine fettle again.” A machine can be in fine fettle too, not only a person. In some northern English speech, to fettle something is to it or get it ready, but will rarely need that verb.
組成From Middle English fetlen, “to prepare, put in place, shape.” Scholars are not sure of the next step: possibly Old English fetel, a belt or girdle, or possibly from the old verb meaning “to fetch.” Further origin uncertain.
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
fettlenoun/ˈfɛtl̩/
- 1
A state of physical condition; kilter or trim.
- These strong 2-8-2s […] appeared in good fettle, especially those shedded at Lublin and several arrivals and departures were photographed in the fine evening light.
- 2
One's mental state; spirits.
- 3
Sand used to line a furnace.
- 4
ceramicschemistryengineeringA seam line left by the meeting of mould pieces.
- 5
dialectalThe act of fettling.
- 6
A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
- What’s yer fettle marra?
fettleverb/ˈfɛtl̩/
- 1
To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
- He is getting his saddle altered: fettling about this and that; does not consider what danger he is in.
- For some time after the train had gone Oscar stood on the track conversing with members of the fettling gang […]
- 2
To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
- Nor list he now go whistling to the car, But sells his team , and fettleth to the war
- 3
To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
- 4
To be upset or in a bad mood.
- Divint fettle yersel ower that!
- 5
ceramicschemistryengineeringTo remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
- 6
engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo machine away seam lines or more generally to make small adjustments to a component or machine to improve its fit or operation.
- He wants to fettle his gearchange mechanism before the next competition.
- 7
archaicTo prepare.
- But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next...
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