核心畫面
You can think of it as the small signal you send the moment you notice someone: a hello, a wave, a nod, a handshake. It carries almost no information — its whole point is to say 'I see you, and I'm glad it's you.'
可以想成看見一個人的那一瞬間，你送出去的一個小訊號：說聲 hello、揮個手、點個頭、伸手握一下。這個訊號幾乎不傳遞…更多收起
可以想成看見一個人的那一瞬間，你送出去的一個小訊號：說聲 hello、揮個手、點個頭、伸手握一下。這個訊號幾乎不傳遞什麼內容，它要做的只有一件事——讓對方知道「我看見你了，而且我很高興是你」。這個字指的就是那個動作或那句話本身。原始詞典資料3 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。
greetingnoun/ˈɡɹiːtɪŋ/
- 1
A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.
- It's polite to begin a letter with a greeting, but this practice is less common in email.
- Thank you to everyone who sent me birthday greetings.
- 2
The action of the verb to greet.
- I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
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。