喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture someone who behaves towards you the way a friend would — open face, willing to talk, no threat in it. English then stretches that one attitude in two directions: to sides in a conflict (yours, not the enemy's), and to things that treat you well, as in user-friendly.

可以想成：有個人對你的態度就像朋友會有的樣子——表情是開的、願意跟你講話、沒有敵意。英文接著把這個態度往兩個方向拉：…更多收起可以想成：有個人對你的態度就像朋友會有的樣子——表情是開的、願意跟你講話、沒有敵意。英文接著把這個態度往兩個方向拉：一個是對立場（是我們這一邊，不是敵方），一個是對事物（這東西對你很好用），於是有了 user-friendly 這一整組字。

From the picture

站在同一邊

把親切的態度換成立場：不是敵人、屬於我方。這時它談的不是感情好不好，而是站在哪一邊。

on your side · adjective · B1

On the same side as you, and not against you.

友好的；我方的

不計勝負的比賽

把「不敵對」用在球場上：兩隊還是照打，但沒有輸贏的利害關係，氣氛回到朋友之間。

friendly, not competitive · adjective · B1

A friendly game or match is played for fun or practice, and not to win a competition.

友誼性質的（比賽）

對…很友善的複合字

把友善的對象接到字尾去：前面掛誰，就表示這東西對誰好——好用、或者不傷害它。

-friendly, easy to use · adjective · A2

Used at the end of a word to say that something is easy for those people to use or understand.

好用的；容易上手的

Also in this word

friendly, sociable · adjective · A1

Acting in a way that shows you like other people and are happy to talk to them or help them.

友善的；親切的

friends with someone · adjective · A2

If you are friendly with someone, you are their friend and you spend time together.

跟…要好；有交情

原始詞典資料16 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。

Friendlyname

  • 1

    A place name:

  • 2

    A place name:

  • 3

    A place name:

  • 4

    A place name:

  • 5

    A surname.

friendlyadj詞源 1/ˈfɹɛnd.li/

  • 1

    Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.

    • Your cat seems very friendly.
    • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.
  • 2

    Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.

    • He gave a friendly smile.
  • 3

    Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.

    • a user-friendly software program
    • a dog-friendly café
  • 4

    Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).

    • The cobbled streets aren't very bike-friendly.
    • Organic farms only use soil-friendly fertilisers.
  • 5

    Without any hostility.

    • a friendly competition
    • a friendly power or state
  • 6

    Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.

    • a friendly breeze or gale
    • Coarſe are his Meals, the Fortune of the Chaſe, / Amidſt the running Stream he ſlakes his Thirſt, / Toil's all the Day, and at th' approach of Night / On the firſt friendly Bank he throws him down, / Or reſts his Head upon a Rock 'till Morn: […]
  • 7

    governmentmilitarypoliticsOf or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports.

    • The soldier was killed by friendly fire.
  • 8

    mathematicsnumber-theorysciencesBeing or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.

    • friendly
    • friendly pairs

friendlynoun詞源 1/ˈfɹɛnd.li/

  • 1

    hobbieslifestylesportsA game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting, etc.

    • This match is merely a friendly, so don't worry too much about it.
    • Brazil provided a different test from Germany and gave England lessons Southgate will store before he gets his squad together again for friendlies against the Netherlands in Amsterdam and at home to Italy in March.
  • 2

    A person or entity on the same side as one's own in a conflict.

    • These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style.
    • You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).

friendlyadv詞源 2/ˈfɹɛnd.li/

  • 1

    In a friendly manner; like a friend.

    • And looke we friendly on them when they come: But if they offer word or violence, Weele fight fiue hundred men at armes to one, Before we part with our poſſeſſion: […]
    • And we cannot doubt, our Brothers in Physick [...] will friendly accept, if not countenance our endeavours.

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。