喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a set of people who move as one unit — they arrive together, act together, and are recognised as a group rather than as individuals. That is a gang. What the group does decides how the word lands: fighting and crime make it dark, sharing an afternoon makes it warm, and doing physical work makes it purely descriptive.

可以想成：一群人整團行動——一起出現、一起做事，別人看到的是「那一夥」而不是一個一個的人。gang 就是這樣一個整團…更多收起可以想成：一群人整團行動——一起出現、一起做事，別人看到的是「那一夥」而不是一個一個的人。gang 就是這樣一個整團。這群人在做什麼，決定了這個字聽起來是什麼味道：打架和犯罪讓它變得負面，一起消磨下午讓它變得親切，一起做工程則單純只是描述。所以判斷語氣要看上下文，不能只看字。

From the picture

一起行動的自己人

同樣是一整團，但拿掉了惹事的部分，剩下的就只是「常在一起的那群人」。

group of friends · noun · B2

A group of friends who often spend time together.

一群朋友

Also in this word

youth gang (troublemaking) · noun · B2

A group of young people who spend time together and often get into trouble or fights with other groups.

幫派

group of youths (loitering) · noun · B2

A group of young people who are together in one place, especially ones who seem likely to cause trouble.

一群（年輕人）

criminal gang · noun · B2

A group of criminals who work together.

犯罪集團

原始詞典資料21 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。

gangverb詞源 1/ˈɡæŋ/

  • 1

    To go; walk; proceed.

    • (Colin alone) Ah, Colin, thou’rt a prodigal; a thriftless loon thou’st been, that cou’d na’ keep a little pelf to thysall when thou had’st got it; now thou may’st gang in this poor geer to thy live's end, and worse too for aught I can tell; ’faith, mon, ’twas a smeart little bysack of money thou hadst scrap’d together, an the best part of it had na’ being last amongst thy kinsfolk, in the Isles of Skey and Mull; muckle gude may it do the weams of them that ha’ it! There was Jamie MacGregor and Sawney MacNab, and the twa braw lads of Kinruddin, with old Charley MacDougall, my mother's first husband's second cousin: by my sol I cou’d na’ see such near relations, and gentlemen of sich auncient families gang upon bare feet, while I rode a horseback: I had been na’ true Scot, an I cou’d na’ ge’en a countryman a gude last upon occasion (as he is going out, Miss Aubrey enters.)
    • "And am I to meet my Mary at Moffat? Come away, little, dear, welcome body, thou blessed of heaven, come away, and taste of an auld shepherd's best cheer, and I'll gang foot for foot with you to Moffat, and my auld wife shall gang foot for foot with us too. I tell you, little, blessed, and welcome crile, come along with me."

gangnoun詞源 2/ˈɡæŋ/

  • 1

    A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

    • the Gashouse Gang
    • The gang from our office is going out for drinks Friday night.
  • 2

    A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

    • a gang of sailors; a railroad gang; a labor gang or pool.
  • 3

    A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

    • a youth gang; a neighborhood gang; motorcycle gang.
  • 4

    A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

    • The Winter Hill Gang was quite proficient at murdering rival mobsters in order to take over their rackets.
  • 5

    A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

    • The Gang of Four was led by Jiang Qing, the fourth wife of Mao Zedong.
    • Not all members of the Gang of Six are consistent in their opposition to filibuster.
  • 6

    A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

  • 7

    A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

  • 8

    A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

    • The sun isn't real? What are you even talking about, gang?
另外 8 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

    • One day they followed a gang of deer that ran in toward the settlements.
    • saw Several gangs of Elk on each Side of the river. late in the afternoon we Saw a gang of Buffaloe
  • 10

    A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.

    • He was not long in discovering a fine gang of turkeys, and after assuring himself that many of them had taken the direction he desired, undertook to regain the covert by another route.
    • Nearly every farmer has a "gang" of turkeys.
  • 11

    A set of things.

    • a gang of saws; a gang of plows; a gang drill; gang milling.
  • 12

    A set of things.

    • a new gang of stays.
  • 13

    A set of things.

    • an outlet gang box; a double gang switch.
  • 14

    A set of things.

    • a gang of wires
    • Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.
  • 15

    dialectalA going, journey; a course, path, track.

    • In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers’ gang / Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang
    • That week was also called the Gang Week, from the Saxon ganger, to go; and the Rogation days were termed the Gang Days.
  • 16

    obsoleteAn outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

gangverb詞源 2/ˈɡæŋ/

  • 1

    To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.

    • Volume controls may be ganged to mode switches to provide maximum output […]
    • When cutting the back cleats with the T-guide, first gang them together so all the marks on one side align.

gangverb詞源 4/ˈɡæŋ/

  • 1

    Synonym of gangbang.

    • He still liked the idea of them all ganging her [...]
    • […] I’ve learned over the years that there's a thin line to tread to avoid fights or getting “ganged” when rejecting the sexual overtures of incarcerated women.

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。