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You can picture turning back to look at a place and finding it empty: the person has left, the thing has been taken, the last of it has been eaten. Gone is not the leaving itself — it is the state you are left with afterwards, the gap where something used to be.

可以想成你回過頭看原本的位置，那裡已經空了：人走了、東西被拿走了、最後一點也被吃掉了。gone 說的不是「離開」這個…更多收起可以想成你回過頭看原本的位置，那裡已經空了：人走了、東西被拿走了、最後一點也被吃掉了。gone 說的不是「離開」這個動作，而是動作結束後留下來的狀態——那個原本有東西、現在只剩空位的畫面。這個空位的想法，後來就分別長成了「人不在了」「時間已經走過去了」等等用法。

原始詞典資料16 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。

goneadj詞源 1/ɡɒn/

  • 1

    Away, having left.

    • Are they gone already?
  • 2

    No longer existing, having passed.

    • The days of my youth are gone.
    • All hopes for a truce are gone.
  • 3

    Used up.

    • I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.
    • If the milk is all gone, we'll drink our coffee black.
  • 4

    Broken, failed.

    • The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
    • The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.
  • 5

    Dead.

    • Dust, that a breath could blow aside, yet that was once, like ourselves, animate with hope, passion, and sorrow, is below; around are the vain memorials of human grief and human pride; yet all alike dedicated to the gone.
  • 6

    Doomed, done for.

    • Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
  • 7

    Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.

    • Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.
    • [S]he put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone[…].
  • 8

    slangInfatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).

    • I am, of course, ‘gone’ for you.
    • But he was pleased and happy and flattered. She was evidently frightfully gone on him.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    datedinformalExcellent, wonderful; crazy.

    • It was a group of real gone cats.
    • “All right, all right, don’t drop your gold all over the place. I have found the gonest little girl in the world and I am going straight to the Lion’s Den with her tonight.”
  • 10

    archaicAgo (used post-positionally).

    • Six nights gone, your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.
  • 11

    Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.

  • 12

    Of an arrow: wide of the mark.

  • 13

    Used with a duration to indicate for how long a process has been developing, an action has been performed or a state has persisted; especially, pregnant.

    • She’s three months gone

goneprep詞源 1/ɡɒn/

  • 1

    informalPast, after, later than (a time).

    • You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

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。