- 1有花紋的;提花的
Figured, as an adjective on cloth, paper, or wood, means the surface carries a small repeating pattern — little flowers, leaves, curls, or shapes. The pattern is not a sticker on top; it belongs to the thing itself. On silk or wallpaper it may be woven or printed in. On wood, figured means the grain makes , ripples, or spots that look almost like a picture, and people often pay more for that. You will meet this use in shops, antique notes, , and furniture talk. It is a quiet describing word, a little old-fashioned, not everyday chat. Same spelling as I figured (“I thought / I worked it out”), but that is the verb. Here figured means “having figures,” and figure is a shape, not a number and not an idea in your head.
figured 當形容詞時,說的是布料、紙或木頭的表面有一種小小的重複花紋,例如小花、葉子、捲曲的線條或形狀。這個花紋是東西本身就有的,不是貼上去的。在絲綢或壁紙上,它是織進去或印進去的;在木頭上,木紋會形成像畫一樣的波紋或斑點,所以常常賣得更貴。
這個用法常見於店家、古董說明、縫紉和家具的談話裡。它是安靜的描述用詞,有點老派,不是日常閒聊。
拼法和「I figured」一樣,但那是動詞,意思是我想到或推算出來。這裡的 figured 來自 figure,指形狀,所以是「有花樣的」,不是數字,也不是腦中的想法。
From the word’s history
From figure + -ed.
由 figure「圖形」加 -ed 組成。
組成figure + -ed. Figure here is the old sense “a shape or pattern.” -ed makes an adjective: “having that kind of pattern.”
原始詞典資料3 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。
figuredadj/ˈfɪɡəd/
- 1
Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.
- Figured wood is especially sought after for its distinctive texture.
- 2
Adorned with a figure or figures.
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
- Some of these mosaics have been carefully altered to replaced figured by non-figured designs.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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