喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold this word: the back of your throat is a short pipe with liquid standing in it. You tip your head back so the liquid stays there, then push air up from your lungs. The air has to force its way through, and that is where the rough bubbling noise comes from. Everything else the word does is one piece of that picture, picked up and used on its own — the liquid standing in the pipe, the single go at it, or just the noise.

可以想成喉嚨最後面是一小截管子。水停在那裡，沒有流下去。頭往後仰，水就不會跑掉。然後從肺部把氣往上推。氣要硬擠過那攤…更多收起可以想成喉嚨最後面是一小截管子。水停在那裡，沒有流下去。頭往後仰，水就不會跑掉。然後從肺部把氣往上推。氣要硬擠過那攤水。咕嚕咕嚕的粗聲音就是這樣來的。最後把水吐掉，不吞下去。這個字其他的用法，都是把這個畫面裡的某一塊單獨拿出來用。可能是管子裡的那攤水，可能是「做一次」這件事，也可能只剩下那個聲音。

From the word’s history

English took the word from French gargouiller, 'to gargle', which goes back to Old French gargouille / gargole, meaning 'gutter, throat' — the same word behind gargoyle, the carved waterspout on a church. So a pipe with water running noisily through it is not a later metaphor here; it is what the word was built on.

這個字從法文 gargouiller（漱口）來，再往上是古法文 gargouille／gargole，意思是「排水口、喉嚨」。同一個字後來變成 gargoyle，就是教堂上那種獸形排水口。所以「管子裡的水咕嚕作響」不是後來才加上去的比喻。它本來就是這個字的出發點。喉嚨和水管，在這個字裡從一開始就是同一樣東西。

Wiktionary entry supplied in this evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1150222734)

Three branches

漱喉嚨這個動作

核心畫面本身：水停在喉嚨後面，氣從下面吹上去。

verb · B2

To hold water or medicine at the back of your throat and blow air up through it so that it bubbles, cleaning your mouth and throat; then you spit the liquid out instead of swallowing it.

漱（喉嚨）

管子裡停著的那攤水

把畫面裡的水單獨拿出來命名，動作留在一邊。

noun · C1

A liquid made for gargling — salt water, or something mixed by a chemist — that you hold at the back of your throat, bubble air through, and then spit out.

漱喉藥水

只剩下那個聲音

把畫面裡的聲音留下來，人和喉嚨都拿掉。

verb · C2

To make a low, wet, bubbling noise like the noise a person's throat makes while gargling — said of water in a pipe, an old engine, or anything that sounds that way.

發出咕嚕聲

原始詞典資料9 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。

gargleverb詞源 1/ˈɡɑːɡəl/

  • 1

    To clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs.

    • She hated the poisoned feeling in her throat, and no matter how often she gargled she felt unclean and disgusting.
  • 2

    To make a sound like the one made while gargling.

  • 3

    To clean a specific part of the body by gargling (almost always throat or mouth).

    • They don't gargle their throats with anything stronger than coffee at this tavern.
  • 4

    To use (a liquid) for purposes of cleaning one's mouth or throat by gargling.

    • Every morning he gargled a little cheap Scotch.
  • 5

    slangTo perform oral sex on (a person or genitals).

    • I'd like to gargle his marbles.

garglenoun詞源 1/ˈɡɑːɡəl/

  • 1

    A liquid used for gargling.

    • But the case was pressing, and the nearest medical practitioner was sent for. On examining the throat, he expressed his desire that a physician should be called in, and accordingly a gentleman, duly authorized, made his appearance, and prescribed gargles and diluents secundem artem.
    • Take of borax 1 drm., tinc. of myrrh 1/2 oz., clarified honey 1 oz., rose or distilled water, 4 oz.; mix. To be used as a gargle or mouth wash in sore mouth or affection of the gums.
  • 2

    The sound or act of gargling.

  • 3

    slangLager or other alcoholic drink.

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。