喜樂美語

這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 fold (bend flat) · fold (sheep pen)

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fold

n, v

核心畫面

You can picture fold as bending something flat so one part lies over another — the paper doubles onto itself, and where it bends a crease appears. Everything here grows from that one motion of laying one part over another.

可以想成「把一個平的東西彎過來、讓一部分蓋在另一部分上」：紙對折，自己疊到自己上面，彎的地方就留下一道摺痕。fold…更多收起可以想成「把一個平的東西彎過來、讓一部分蓋在另一部分上」：紙對折，自己疊到自己上面，彎的地方就留下一道摺痕。fold 的核心畫面，比較像「一折——一部分覆到另一部分上」；不論是疊衣服、收椅子、交叉手臂，還是把人摟進懷裡，都是這個『一部分蓋過另一部分』的動作在伸展。

A second word, same spelling

2

fold

n

核心畫面

You can picture this other fold as a small pen with a wall or fence around it where sheep are kept safe together — a enclosure that gathers a flock. From the real sheep-pen grows the idea of the group you belong to.

可以想成「一個用牆或籬笆圍起來、把羊安全聚在一起的小圈」：一個有遮護的圍欄，把一群羊攏在裡頭。這個 fold 跟『摺…更多收起可以想成「一個用牆或籬笆圍起來、把羊安全聚在一起的小圈」：一個有遮護的圍欄，把一群羊攏在裡頭。這個 fold 跟『摺疊』那個其實是不同來源的同形字，核心畫面比較像「圈住一群的圍欄」——從真正的羊圈，再延伸出『你所屬的那個圈子、那群人』。

原始詞典資料45 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。

foldverb詞源 1/ˈfəʊld/

  • 1

    To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.

    • Next, fold the paper over, so the right half is on top of the left half.
    • The newspaper was folded under his arm.
  • 2

    To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.

    • If you fold the sheets, they'll fit more easily in the drawer.
    • The clothes were folded by the housekeeper.
  • 3

    To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.

  • 4

    cookingfoodlifestyleTo stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.

    • Fold the egg whites into the batter.
    • 8 Jan 2020, Felicity Cloake in The Guardian, How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies – recipe if you want to make life really easy for yourself, may I point you in the direction of Sunflour’s recipe, which folds four eggs and 150g ground almonds into 500g chocolate spread.
  • 5

    To become folded; to form folds.

    • Cardboard doesn't fold very easily.
  • 6

    informalTo fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.

    • The chair folded under his enormous weight.
  • 7

    To give way on a point or in an argument.

    • He folded that point and didn't bring it up again.
    • He kept saying it was my fault, but when I brought up Sausalito, he folded.
  • 8

    card-gamespokerTo withdraw from betting.

    • With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded.
另外 10 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To withdraw or quit in general.

  • 10

    To fail, to collapse, to disband.

  • 11

    businessOf a company, to cease to trade.

    • The company folded after six quarters of negative growth.
  • 12

    To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.

    • He folded his arms in defiance.
  • 13

    obsoleteTo plait or mat (hair) together.

  • 14

    To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.

  • 15

    To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).

    • He put out his arms and folded her to his breast. And for a while she lay there sobbing. He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils. His mouth was set as steel.
  • 16

    To cover up, to conceal.

    • I will not poyſon thee with my attaint, / Nor fold my fault in cleanly coin’d excuſes, / My ſable ground of ſinne I will not paint, / To hide the truth of this falſe nights abuſes.
  • 17

    obsoleteTo ensnare, to capture.

  • 18

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.

foldnoun詞源 1/ˈfəʊld/

  • 1

    An act of folding.

    • give the bedsheets a fold before putting them in the cupboard.
    • After two reraises in quick succession, John realised his best option for this poker hand was probably a fold.
  • 2

    An act of folding.

  • 3

    That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

    • […] There sat the Shadow fear’d of man; Who broke our fair companionship, ⁠And spread his mantle dark and cold; And wrapt thee formless in the fold, […]
  • 4

    That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

    • […] the Ancient Ægyptian Mummies, were ſhrowded in a Number of Folds of Linnen, beſmeared with Gummes, in manner of Seare-Cloth; […]
  • 5

    That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

    • […] the weake wanton Cupid Shall from your necke vnlooſe his amorous fould, […]
  • 6

    That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

  • 7

    That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

  • 8

    That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

另外 8 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    journalismmedianewspapersThat which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

    • Newspaper editors know the importance of putting the most important information “above the fold,” that is, visible when the paper is folded and on the rack.
  • 10

    computingengineeringjournalismThat which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

    • For example, a story that is "page I, above the fold" is considered very important news. In web page design, the fold signifies the place at which the user has to scroll down to get more information.
  • 11

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesThat which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

    • The folds are most abrupt to the eastward; to the west, they diminish in boldness, and become gentle undulations
  • 12

    obsoleteThat which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops.

  • 13

    Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.

    • It was Erik Meijer who coined the name hylomorphism to describe a computation that consists of a fold after an unfold. The unfold produces a data structure and the fold consumes it.
  • 14

    computingengineeringmathematicsA section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.

  • 15

    One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.

  • 16

    ChristianityA herd of sheep.

    • Ten folds of sheep, with shepherds presiding over each, encompassed the fountain; and every shaded spot the neighborhood afforded, was already encamped over by Arvah of Gilboa, who had been holding his sheep-shearing in this valley for the last three days. Arvah, who himself presided as chief shepherd of his flocks, was at this time engaged in calling his sheep one by one out of the fold.
    • The obverse side of the coin in essence is "You who do not belong to my fold of sheep cannot believe my good shepherd claim or the other 'I AM' claims I have made."

foldnoun詞源 2/ˈfəʊld/

  • 1

    A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.

    • Leaps o're the fence with ease into the fold.
  • 2

    Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.

  • 3

    An enclosure or dwelling generally.

  • 4

    A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.

  • 5

    Home, family.

  • 6

    ChristianityA church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.

    • And other sheepe I haue, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall heare my voyce; and there shall be one fold, and one shepheard.
  • 7

    A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.

    • Having suffered the loss of Rooney just as he had returned to the fold, Moyes' mood will not have improved as Liverpool took the lead in the third minute.
    • Most recently, in his ambitious 2015 book, Leaving the Jewish Fold, Endelman significantly enlarges his purview in both time and space to broadly survey the phenomenon of Jewish conversion from early medieval to postmodern times […]

foldverb詞源 2/ˈfəʊld/

  • 1

    To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.

    • The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold.
    • On the same day [Midsummer Eve] people in the Isle of Man were wont to light fires to the windward of every field, so that the smoke might pass over the corn; and they folded their cattle and carried blazing furze or gorse round them several times.
  • 2

    To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.

  • 3

    To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.

foldnoun詞源 3/ˈfəʊld/

  • 1

    dialectalThe Earth; earth; land; country.

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。