浮著、沒有被固定
這一組是畫面本身，以及把畫面裡的水拿掉之後剩下的「不固定」。
adjective · A2
Resting on the top of water, or moving slowly through air, held up instead of sinking or falling.
漂浮的
核心畫面
You can think of floating as a leaf on a pond. Nothing holds it down and nothing pushes it along: the water carries its weight, so it stays on top and goes wherever the water goes. Every other use keeps one half of that picture — either the being-carried, or the not-being-tied-down.
floating 的核心畫面可以想成一片浮在池面上的葉子。沒有東西把它壓住，也沒有東西推著它走：水替它撐住重量，所以…更多收起
floating 的核心畫面可以想成一片浮在池面上的葉子。沒有東西把它壓住，也沒有東西推著它走：水替它撐住重量，所以它停在表面上，水往哪流它就往哪去。其他的用法都留著這幅畫面的一半——不是「被托著」，就是「沒有被綁住」。From the word’s history
By surface analysis, float + -ing.
維基詞典記錄這個字從表面拆開就是 float 加 -ing，所以它的意思就是 float（被托著、沒有沉下去）這個動作的形容詞和名詞形式。
Wiktionary entry for floating, etymology_text: "By surface analysis, float + -ing." (supplied in the evidence packet)
Two branches
讓水托著你的療程
這一個不是比喻，而是把畫面直接搬到人身上，再拿來當一件事的名字。
noun · C1
The activity of lying in a closed tank of very salty water, so that your body is held up by the water; people do it to relax, or to help with an illness or an injury.
漂浮療法
原始詞典資料8 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。
floatingadj/ˈfloʊtɪŋ/
- 1
That floats or float.
- floating buoys
- 2
Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
- The outcome of the forthcoming election is still unclear due to the large number of floating voters.
- In China, the large floating population has tended to gravitate to cities.
- 3
human-scienceslinguisticssciencesthat is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.
floatingnoun/ˈfloʊtɪŋ/
- 1
The motion of something that floats.
- 2
Material that floats in a liquid.
- Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings.
- 3
The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.
- 4
biologymedicinenatural-sciencesA veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.
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。