喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture 'game' as an activity people step into where there are agreed rules, two sides, and a winner — a bounded little world of play with a line around it. Almost everything else (a single match, children pretending, playing tricks, being 'game' to try) reaches back to that picture of rule-bound play with stakes.

可以把 game 的核心想成一塊「講好規則、有對手、有輸贏」的玩耍空間——四周畫了一條界線，裡面照大家講好的規矩來玩…更多收起可以把 game 的核心想成一塊「講好規則、有對手、有輸贏」的玩耍空間——四周畫了一條界線，裡面照大家講好的規矩來玩。後面幾乎所有用法，不管是一場比賽、小孩的扮家家酒、耍手段使詐、還是「敢不敢試一把」，都可以回到這個「有規則、有勝負的玩」這張圖。

原始詞典資料31 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。

gamenoun詞源 1/ɡeɪm/

  • 1

    A playful or competitive activity.

    • Being a child is all fun and games.
  • 2

    A playful or competitive activity.

    • Games in the classroom can make learning fun.
    • Joshua: Shall we play a game? David: ... Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War? Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess? David: Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War. Joshua: Fine.
  • 3

    A playful or competitive activity.

    • From time to time tracksuited boys ran past them, with all the deadly purpose and humourless concentration of those who enjoyed Games.
  • 4

    A playful or competitive activity.

    • Sally won the game.
    • They can turn the game around in the second half.
  • 5

    hobbieslifestylesportsA playful or competitive activity.

    • Game, set and match!
  • 6

    A playful or competitive activity.

  • 7

    A playful or competitive activity.

    • In short whist, five points are game, while in in table tennis game is 21 points.
    • See also: for the win
  • 8

    card-gamesgamesA playful or competitive activity.

另外 14 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A playful or competitive activity.

    • Some of the games in the closet we have on the computer as well.
  • 10

    A playful or competitive activity.

    • Study can help your game of chess.
    • Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.
  • 11

    informalA field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

    • When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
    • He's in the securities game somehow.
  • 12

    informaldancinghip-hophobbiesA field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

    • The rapper bragged about how he ran the game.
  • 13

    Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

    • In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.
    • I ſee you ſtand like Grey-hounds in the ſlips, / Straying vpon the Start. The Game’s afoot:
  • 14

    governmentmilitarypoliticsAn exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

  • 15

    A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.

    • You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?
    • Your murderous game is nearly up.
  • 16

    Wild animals hunted for food.

    • The forest has plenty of game.
    • I had known the President several years before he became famous, and we had had some correspondence on subjects of natural history. His interest in such themes is always very fresh and keen, and the main motive of his visit to the Park at this time was to see and study in its semi-domesticated condition the great game which he had so often hunted during his ranch days; and he was kind enough to think it would be an additional pleasure to see it with a nature-lover like myself.
  • 17

    A flock of swans, especially as kept for hunting purposes (or, originally, a group of any animals kept for such purpose).

    • A game of swans flew there and the water and the shore beneath were fouled with their greenwhite slime.
  • 18

    informalThe ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.

    • He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.
    • She's strange, so strange, but I didn't complain / She said yes to me when I ran my game
  • 19

    archaicLovemaking, flirtation.

  • 20

    slangProstitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)

    • ſet them downe, / For ſlottiſh ſpoyles of opportunitie; / And daughters of the game.
    • [H]e put spurs to his horse, and just in the twilight reached the gate, where, at that time, there happened to be two ladies of the game [translating mugeres moças], who being on their journey to Seville, with the carriers, had chanced to take up their night's lodging in this place.
  • 21

    slangMastery; the ability to excel at something.

    • What is game? Who got game? / Where's the game in life, behind the game behind the game / I got game, she's got game / We got game, they got game, he got game
    • In the contemporary arts of the academic contact zone, I say African American students got game!
  • 22

    archaicDiversion, entertainment.

    • To ſet the minde on the racke of long meditation (you ſay) is a torment: to follow the ſwift foote of your hound alday long, hath no wearineſſe: what would you ſay of him that finds better game in his ſtudie, then you in the fielde, and would account your diſport his puniſhment? ſuch there are, though you doubt and wonder.

gameadj詞源 1/ɡeɪm/

  • 1

    Willing and able to participate.

    • "[…] But what’s this long face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not game for Moby Dick?”
    • One Friday when I jumped into my barber’s chair to get a trim, she suggested I try a jheri curl. I was game, despite the fact that most of the women I knew hated jheri curls on men and called men who wore them “bamas,” a term short for Alabamas, which meant real country.
  • 2

    That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.

  • 3

    Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

gameverb詞源 1/ɡeɪm/

  • 1

    To gamble.

    • an impressive protest against gaming, swearing, and all immoral practices which might forfeit divine aid in the great struggle for National Independence
  • 2

    To play card games, board games, or video games.

    • “The first few days after getting here are weird. It’s a version of cold turkey because you’ve been gaming around the clock and suddenly, nothing. […]”
  • 3

    To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.

    • We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.
    • A large batch of online trolls have gamed a web contest that promises a Taylor Swift performance at any school in the US. The target? Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
  • 4

    slanglifestyleseduction-communitysexualityTo perform premeditated seduction strategy.

    • Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number.
    • A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.

gameadj詞源 2/ɡeɪm/

  • 1

    Injured, lame.

    • You come with me and we'll have a cozy dinner and a pleasant talk together, and by that time your game ankle will carry you home very nicely, I am sure."
    • He was done for, all right. I took out my six-shooter and aimed right between his eyes. He kicked once, sort of leaped—or tried to, and then lay still. I stood there a minute, to see if he had to have another. He was so game that, some way, I didn’t want to give him more than he needed.

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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。