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Picture someone with a line in the water: you cannot see what is down there, so you put something out and wait to see what you pull up. That is fishing — as a quiet weekend hobby or as the work that feeds a whole coastal town. English also lends this picture to conversation, but only inside one fixed phrase.
可以想成一個人把線垂進水裡：水面下有什麼你看不見，所以你先把東西放出去，然後等，看能拉上來什麼。這個畫面既可以是週末…更多收起
可以想成一個人把線垂進水裡：水面下有什麼你看不見，所以你先把東西放出去，然後等，看能拉上來什麼。這個畫面既可以是週末的休閒釣魚，也可以是養活整個漁村的行業。英文也把這個「看不見底、丟下去再說」的畫面借去講對話裡的試探，不過只借給一個固定的說法用。原始詞典資料5 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。
fishingnoun詞源 1/ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
- 1
The act of catching fish.
- We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
- Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
- 2
informalThe act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
- 3
Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
- This is good news for the fishing industry.
- 4
A fishery, a place for catching fish.
- the rent of the fishings
- Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.
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。