喜樂美語

核心畫面

Gear pulls in two directions at once, so it helps to hold a light top image and two sub-pictures under it. The most concrete picture is the toothed wheel / car gear: the part that passes power on and sets the speed. From it grows a whole 'level of effort / change speed' family. A second, looser branch is 'the stuff you need': equipment, clothes, kit for an activity.

可以想成：gear 有兩個畫面在拉，所以留一個輕的頂層核心，底下再放兩個子畫面。最具體的核心比較像「齒輪／排檔」——…更多收起可以想成：gear 有兩個畫面在拉，所以留一個輕的頂層核心，底下再放兩個子畫面。最具體的核心比較像「齒輪／排檔」——車子裡傳遞動力、決定速度快慢的那個零件；從它長出一整族「力道·換速度·轉換步調」的用法。另一條比較鬆的支線是「你需要的那套東西」——某個活動要用的裝備、行頭、機具。

原始詞典資料18 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。

Gearname

  • 1

    A surname.

gearnoun/ɡɪə/

  • 1

    Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.

  • 2

    Clothing; garments.

    • Aray thy selfe in her most gorgeous geare
    • Those Eastern winters, ⁠I can't endure 'em / So every year I pack my gear and come out here till Purim / Rosh Hashanah, I spend in Arizona
  • 3

    obsoleteGoods; property; household items.

    • Homely gear and common ware.
  • 4

    A wheel, wheel segment, or bar with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other.

    • Near-synonyms: (wheel types) cog, cogwheel, gear wheel, gearwheel
  • 5

    automotivecyclinghobbiesA particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved; often selected via a shifter.

  • 6

    automotivecyclinghobbiesA particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved; often selected via a shifter.

  • 7

    slangRecreational drugs, including steroids.

    • getting on gear
    • "Have you got any gear? Dominic, have you got any acid?" Emma kept running her hands nervously through her hair. "Not LSD, man; that last trip freaked me out."
  • 8

    archaicStuff.

    • When he was digged up, which was in the presence of the Magistracy of the Town, his body was found entire, not at all putrid, no ill smell about him, saving the mustiness of the grave-Clothes, his joynts limber and flexible, as in those that are alive, his skin only flaccid, but a more fresh grown in the room of it, the wound of his throat gaping, but no gear nor corruption in it; there was also observed a Magical mark in the great toe of his right foot, viz. an Excrescency in the form of a Rose.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoleteBusiness matters; affairs; concern.

    • goe they both together to their geare.
  • 10

    obsoletedialectalAnything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.

    • March 29, 1549, Hugh Latimer, the fourth sermon preached before King Edward That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.

gearverb/ɡɪə/

  • 1

    engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.

  • 2

    engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo be in gear, come into gear.

  • 3

    To dress; to put gear on; to harness.

  • 4

    To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).

    • This shop is not really geared towards people of our age.
    • They have geared the hotel mainly at tourists.
  • 5

    businessfinanceTo borrow money in order to invest it in assets.

gearadj/ɡɪə/

  • 1

    great or fantastic

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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。