喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture one hard little seed of wheat sitting in your palm: the smallest solid piece of something that normally comes in huge quantities. From that one seed you can look two ways — to the whole harvest poured into a sack, and to the fine, repeating structure that a heap of tiny pieces makes.

可以想成手心裡那一粒麥子：小、硬、有稜有角，是那種平常都以「一大堆」出現的東西裡，最小的一顆。從這一粒往外看，是倒進…更多收起可以想成手心裡那一粒麥子：小、硬、有稜有角，是那種平常都以「一大堆」出現的東西裡，最小的一顆。從這一粒往外看，是倒進麻布袋裡的整批收成；往裡看，是無數小顆粒排在一起時形成的那種細密、重複的質地。grain 的各種用法大多可以從「一粒」和「一粒粒排成的紋理」這兩個方向長出來。

原始詞典資料40 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。

Grainname

  • 1

    A village in Isle of Grain parish, Isle of Grain, Medway borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8876).

  • 2

    A surname.

grainnoun詞源 1/ɡɹeɪn/

  • 1

    The harvested seeds of various grass food crops, especially wheat, maize, rye, barley, and rice.

    • Near-synonym: corn (broad sense, maize and others)
    • We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
  • 2

    Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.

    • Near-synonym: corn (broad sense, maize and others)
  • 3

    A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.

    • a grain of wheat
    • grains of oat
  • 4

    The crops from which grain is harvested.

    • The fields were planted with grain.
    • A grain, which in England is generally given to horſes, but which in Scotland ſupports the people.
  • 5

    A linear texture of a material or surface.

    • Cut along the grain of the wood.
    • He doesn't like to shave against the grain.
  • 6

    A single particle of a substance.

    • a grain of sand
    • a grain of salt
  • 7

    Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including

  • 8

    Any of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including

另外 12 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    historicalAny of various small units of mass originally notionally based on grain's weight, variously standardized at different places and times, including

  • 10

    historicalAny of various small units of length originally notionally based on a grain's width, variously standardized at different places and times.

  • 11

    historicalThe carat grain of ¹⁄₄ carat as a measure of gold purity, creating a 96-point scale between 0% and 100% purity.

  • 12

    A region within a material having a single crystal structure or direction.

  • 13

    aerospaceastronauticsbusinessThe solid piece of fuel in an individual solid-fuel rocket engine.

  • 14

    A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple.

    • all in a robe of darkest grain
    • […] doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colours of less value, then give them the last tincture of crimson in grain.
  • 15

    The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side.

    • The grain of the leather is also sometimes damaged by the filling , by the taking off the hair , and by the river work.
  • 16

    The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum.

  • 17

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesA rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock.

  • 18

    Temper; natural disposition; inclination.

    • brothers […] not united in grain
  • 19

    artsbroadcastingfilmVisual texture in processed photographic film due to the presence of small particles of a metallic silver, or dye clouds, developed from silver halide that have received enough photons.

  • 20

    A tiny fragment of a digital audio recording, used in granular synthesis to create new sounds or textures.

grainverb詞源 1/ɡɹeɪn/

  • 1

    To feed grain to.

    • He said that no man loved his horses, unless his own hands grained them. Every Christmas he gave them brimming measures.
  • 2

    To make granular; to form into grains.

  • 3

    To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.

  • 4

    To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.

  • 5

    To remove the hair or fat from a skin.

  • 6

    To soften leather.

  • 7

    To yield fruit.

grainnoun詞源 2/ɡɹeɪn/

  • 1

    A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.

  • 2

    A tine, prong, or fork.

  • 3

    A tine, prong, or fork.

    • Served 5 lb of fish per man which was caught by striking with grains
  • 4

    A tine, prong, or fork.

  • 5

    A tine, prong, or fork.

  • 6

    A thin piece of metal, used in a mould to steady a core.

  • 7

    dialectalA branch or arm of a stream, inlet, or sea.

  • 8

    dialectalA fork in a river valley or ravine.

另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    dialectalThe branch of a family; clan.

  • 10

    dialectalanatomymedicinesciencesThe groin; crotch.

  • 11

    dialectalanatomymedicinesciencesThe fangs of a tooth.

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。