喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can think of flaming as a fire caught in the moment when the flames are actually visible — not smoke, not warmth, not glowing coals, but the yellow-orange tongues standing up off the thing that is burning. Everything else the word does seems to come from taking one piece of that sight and keeping it. Keep only the colour and you get flaming red hair. Keep only the heat and you get a flaming passion. Keep only the suddenness and you get a flaming row. Keep only the fact that fire hurts whatever it touches, move it online, and you get flaming in a comment thread.

flaming 的核心畫面可以想成火燒得正旺的那一刻：看得到黃橘色的火舌立在上面，不是煙，不是餘溫，也不是紅紅的炭。…更多收起flaming 的核心畫面可以想成火燒得正旺的那一刻：看得到黃橘色的火舌立在上面，不是煙，不是餘溫，也不是紅紅的炭。這個字後來的各種用法，就像是從這個畫面裡各挑一樣東西留下來。只留顏色，就變成 flaming red hair。只留熱度，就變成 a flaming passion。只留「一下子就燒起來」，就變成 a flaming row。只留「火碰到什麼就傷什麼」，再搬到網路上，就變成留言區的 flaming。

Four branches

真的在燒

這一組就是核心畫面本身，火是真的，火舌是看得見的。

adjective · B2

Burning with flames that you can actually see, especially while the thing is moving, falling, or being carried.

燃燒中的；冒著火的

只留下火的顏色

火不見了，顏色留下來：那種亮到會讓人多看一眼的橘紅。

adjective · B2

Bright orange or bright red, the colour of a flame — used about hair, skies, leaves, and anything with that strong warm colour.

火紅的；火焰色的

燒起來的情緒

火從東西上面搬到人身上：留下的是熱度，還有「說燒就燒」的那股突然。

adjective · C1

Extremely strong and full of feeling, as if it were burning — used about passion, enthusiasm, and about writing or speech that is full of such feeling.

熾烈的；激昂的

只剩溫度的語氣詞

連內容都燒光了，只剩下說話者的火氣掛在那個名詞前面。

adjective · C1

Put in front of a noun to show that the speaker is annoyed: it adds anger to the sentence but no extra meaning, as in 'that flaming phone' or 'you flaming idiot'.

該死的（純粹加重語氣）

原始詞典資料11 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。

Flamingname

  • 1

    A surname.

flamingadj/ˈfleɪmɪŋ/

  • 1

    On fire with visible flames.

    • The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.
    • On Christmas Day, the pudding was served piping hot, with flaming brandy on top.
  • 2

    Very bright and the color of flame.

    • In the evening she reveled in the flaming sunsets, with their spectacular orange glows that seemed to set the whole world on fire.
    • Edward was twelve when he had seen his first painting by Titian of a woman with flowing red locks. Since that day, he had always wanted to find a model he could paint who possessed the flaming hair that was Titian's trademark.
  • 3

    Very showy, flamboyant.

    • I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals fa-laaaaming.
  • 4

    Extremely obvious; visibly evident.

    • To call him a flaming homosexual would be an understatement, but I think he acts that way just to see people react.
  • 5

    Damned, bloody.

    • I wasted three hours in that flaming traffic jam!
  • 6

    Very enthusiastic or passionate.

    • I hate it with a flaming passion!
    • Before he had brought it into the study that morning, he had read in the journal a flaming account of "Festivities at Gaunt House," with the names of all the distinguished personages invited by the Marquis of Steyne to meet his Royal Highness.

flamingnoun/ˈfleɪmɪŋ/

  • 1

    An emission or application of fire; act of burning with flames.

    • The burning is done before the crop has come up, and usually two flamings are necessary to kill all weeds […]
  • 2

    Sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.

  • 3

    Vitriolic criticism.

    • You can expect a flaming if you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup.

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。