喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold this word: something hits your eye before you have decided to look. Step out of a tunnel at noon and the light is on you already; you squint, you turn your head. That is the picture. From there it moves to faults that reach you the same way, with no searching needed, and to the stare a cat gives you across a dark room.

可以想成有東西在你決定要看之前，就先撞上你的眼睛。中午從隧道走出來，光已經打在臉上了。你瞇眼、你別過頭。那就是這個字…更多收起可以想成有東西在你決定要看之前，就先撞上你的眼睛。中午從隧道走出來，光已經打在臉上了。你瞇眼、你別過頭。那就是這個字的畫面。從這裡它走向兩邊：一邊是「不用找就自己跳出來的缺點」，一邊是動詞 glare 的另一面——一雙在暗處直直盯著你的眼睛。

From the word’s history

The source analyses the word as glare plus -ing. The verb glare covers both light thrown straight at you and a hard stare, and every sense here keeps one of those two.

來源把這個字拆成 glare 加上 -ing。動詞 glare 同時管兩件事：光直直射過來，以及人直直瞪過來。這裡每一個意思，都還留著其中一邊。

Wiktionary (kaikki) entry for glaring, supplied in packet: 「By surface analysis, glare + -ing.」

From the picture

明顯到刺眼的缺點

強光不用你去找，它自己打到你身上。有些錯誤也是這樣：校名拼錯就印在標題上，你根本不必檢查就看到了。英文把同一個動作搬到錯誤上，就成了這一條。所以它常帶一點責備——既然這麼刺眼，怎麼會有人沒看到。

adjective · B2

So bad and so easy to see that nobody could miss it. It is used about mistakes, faults and gaps, and it says both that the thing is wrong and that it stands out.

明顯到刺眼的

Also in this word

adjective · B2

So bright that it hurts your eyes and you have to look away. It is used about light, about a surface throwing light back at you, and also about colours that are far too strong.

刺眼的

原始詞典資料6 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。

glaringadj/ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋ/

  • 1

    Reflecting with glare.

  • 2

    Blatant, obvious.

    • How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!
  • 3

    Garish

    • painted in glaring oranges and greens

glaringnoun/ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋ/

  • 1

    The act of giving a glare.

    • Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!
    • I take therefore even the lurid glarings, which barbarian passions must have cast on whatever was barbarians' general view of things, as predestined awakeners of real intellect to them.
  • 2

    rareA group of cats.

    • 2010, Chuck Lorre et al., The Big Bang Theory, episode “The Zazzy Substitution” Leonard: You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats. Sheldon: Clowder. Leonard: What? Sheldon: A group of cats is a clowder. Or a glaring. It’s the kind of thing you ought to know now that we have one.
    • But as she knows, as Greville has come to accept, in a glaring of cats incidents considered 'dirty' to the human viewpoint are but an occurrence of nature to the feline. Sometimes it is caused by a skirmish for domination within the glaring, or territorial marking caused by an intruder, or as retribution against the human for the impertinence of dee-fleaing or deworming.

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。