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 Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。