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Picture a rubber hose next to a metal pipe: push both and only one gives way, then returns. Flexible describes the one that gives. Say it about a person or a plan and the picture holds — the situation pushes, and instead of breaking or refusing, they bend into a new shape.

可以想成：一條橡皮管旁邊放著一根金屬水管，兩個都推推看，只有一個會彎，然後又彈回來。flexible 說的就是會彎的…更多收起可以想成：一條橡皮管旁邊放著一根金屬水管，兩個都推推看，只有一個會彎，然後又彈回來。flexible 說的就是會彎的那一個。把它用在人或計畫上，畫面一樣成立——情況推過來，他不是硬碰硬，也不是斷掉，而是順著彎成新的樣子。

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。

flexibleadj/ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/

  • 1

    Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.

    • When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks.
  • 2

    Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.

    • Phocion the Athenian (a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people[…]
    • Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible.
  • 3

    Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations.

    • You can't always get what you want: you need to learn to be flexible.
  • 4

    Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.

    • a flexible language
    • This they foresaw was a Principle more flexible to their Purpose

flexiblenoun/ˈflɛk.sɪ.bəl/

  • 1

    businessengineeringmanufacturingSomething that is flexible.

    • Alcan is mostly flexibles -- and so it boosts Amcor's flexible packaging business to a globally significant $7 billion one.

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。