核心畫面

Picture a covering shaped exactly like a hand, with a place for every finger: it sits between your skin and the world, keeping the cold or the sharp edges off. Because a glove contact, taking one off is a way of saying the is over.

可以想成:一個完全照著手做出來的套子,每根手指都有自己的位置。它夾在你的皮膚和外面的世界之間,把冷空氣、把尖銳的東西更多收起可以想成:一個完全照著手做出來的套子,每根手指都有自己的位置。它夾在你的皮膚和外面的世界之間,把冷空氣、把尖銳的東西擋掉。也正因為手套的作用是「讓接觸變柔和」,把它脫掉就成了一句話:接下來不留情了。

原始詞典資料8 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。

glovenoun/ɡlʌv/

  • 1

    An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

    • I wore gloves to keep my hands warm.
    • The boxing champ laced on his gloves before the big bout.
  • 2

    A baseball mitt.

  • 3

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe ability to catch a hit ball.

    • Frederico had a great glove, but he couldn't hit a curveball, so he never broke into the pros.
  • 4

    slangA condom.

  • 5

    A challenge from one to another.

    • to throw down the glove, i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove, to accept it

gloveverb/ɡlʌv/

  • 1

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo catch the ball in a baseball mitt.

    • He gloved the line drive for the third out.
  • 2

    To put a glove or gloves on.

    • Maxwell gloved his hand so that he wouldn't leave fingerprints, then pulled the trigger.
    • After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.
  • 3

    ball-gamescricketgamesTo touch (a delivery) with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。