核心畫面
Something that was in your mind slips out of it — a fact, a name, a plan, a feeling — and is no longer there when you reach for it. From that one slip-out picture grow all the others: failing to do or bring a thing, deliberately letting a thought go, and the many spoken phrases built on 'don't forget' / 'forget it'.
可以想成本來放在腦子裡的某樣東西——一個事實、一個名字、一個計畫、一份感覺——悄悄滑了出去，等你要用時它已經不在了。…更多收起
可以想成本來放在腦子裡的某樣東西——一個事實、一個名字、一個計畫、一份感覺——悄悄滑了出去，等你要用時它已經不在了。forget 所有的意思都從這個「東西從腦中溜走」的畫面長出來：該做的沒做、該帶的沒帶、刻意把念頭放掉，還有一大串「別忘了」「算了」的口語說法。原始詞典資料7 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。
Forgetname
- 1
A surname.
forgetverb/fəˈɡɛt/
- 1
To lose remembrance of.
- I have forgotten most of the things I learned in school.
- VVe (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmoſt ſubiects, the laſt (in a manner) that he bought to his obedience: ſhal we then forgette that vvee are any ſubiects of hys, becauſe (as amongſt his Angels) he is not viſibly conuerſant amongſt vs?
- 2
To unintentionally not do, neglect.
- I forgot to buy flowers for my wife at our 14th wedding anniversary.
- Pray, thou, therefore, to Slid, and forget not Slid, and it may be that Slid will not forget to send thee Death when most thou needest it.
- 3
To unintentionally leave something behind.
- I forgot my car keys in the living room.
- 4
To cease remembering.
- Let's just forget I ever told you anything about it.
- He forgot having already visited this city.
- 5
informalTo not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).
- People forget how much work goes into what we do.
- 6
slangEuphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).
- Forget you!
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。