這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字,意思沒有關係, 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 a hack (horse for hire) · hack (cut roughly)

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hack

n, v

核心畫面

Picture a plain horse you can hire by the hour — not a fine , just an ordinary worn-out nag that anyone can rent for ordinary riding. From that hired, used-up grow two ideas: the riding itself, and (figuratively) any tired who is hired to do dull work to order.

可以想成一匹「花錢就能租來騎」的普通馬——不是名駒,只是一匹被用到累、誰都能租的老馬。從這匹「被雇來幹活的老馬」長出更多收起可以想成一匹「花錢就能租來騎」的普通馬——不是名駒,只是一匹被用到累、誰都能租的老馬。從這匹「被雇來幹活的老馬」長出兩個方向:一是騎馬這件事本身,二是比喻上任何被雇來照吩咐做枯燥工作、沒什麼地位的「老黃牛」。連美式英語裡的計程車,也是從這匹出租的馬車延伸來的。

A second word, same spelling

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hack

v, n

核心畫面

Picture swinging an axe or a heavy knife at something tough, again and again — rough, uneven blows that chop and break a way through. Not a clean, careful cut but a hacking-through.

可以想成揮著斧頭或大刀,對著粗硬的東西一下一下地砍——不是工整細緻的切,而是粗魯、用力、砍出一條路來的那種劈。這個「更多收起可以想成揮著斧頭或大刀,對著粗硬的東西一下一下地砍——不是工整細緻的切,而是粗魯、用力、砍出一條路來的那種劈。這個「用力砍開、硬闖過去」的畫面,後來既能砍樹枝,也能砍進別人的電腦,還能形容咳嗽時喉嚨像被刺刺地刮。

原始詞典資料68 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。

Hackname

  • 1

    A surname.

hackverb詞源 1/hæk/

  • 1

    To chop or cut down in a rough manner.

    • They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
    • Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
  • 2

    To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.

    • Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?
    • New Yorkers have been fleeing for months. But the fear some residents have of the violent reactions to the protests here is adding a new challenge to those asking themselves whether they can hack the city. Many are deciding not to return.
  • 3

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.

    • I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.
  • 4

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo accomplish a difficult programming task.

    • He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.
    • The police said that officers belonging to the Cyber Security and Technology Crime unit searched an office in the Wong Chuk Hang neighborhood on Friday afternoon on the suspicion that computers at the institute had been hacked, leading to a leak of personal information.
  • 5

    slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsTo work with something on an intimately technical level.

    • I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
  • 6

    To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.

    • I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life.
  • 7

    slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsTo hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.

    • FACT: The People’s Republic of China (China) and their proxies bought, stole, or hacked as many as 220 million Americans’ voter registration data.
  • 8

    slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsTo gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).

    • When I logged in to the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked.
另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    video-gamesTo cheat by using unauthorized modifications.

    • That player must be hacking, they got so many kills last game.
  • 10

    hobbiesice-hockeylifestyleTo strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.

    • He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.
    • Jensen gets a 5 minute major penalty for hacking Orsov in the back.
  • 11

    hobbiesice-hockeylifestyleTo make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.

    • There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.
  • 12

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo swing at a pitched ball.

    • He went to the batter's box hacking.
  • 13

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo kick (a player) on the shins.

    • Barcelona had been harried and hurried and stretched thin by the midway point in the second half. Tackles flew in. Toes were crushed, shins barked, ankles hacked.
  • 14

    To strike in a frantic movement.

    • Centre-back Branislav Ivanovic then took a wild slash at the ball but his captain John Terry saved Chelsea's skin by hacking the ball clear for a corner with Kevin Davies set to strike from just six yards out.
  • 15

    To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.

    • […] laterally from and then towards the spine, and continued downwards from the shoulders until the whole back has been hacked.

hacknoun詞源 1/hæk/

  • 1

    A tool for chopping.

  • 2

    A hacking blow.

  • 3

    A gouge or notch made by such a blow.

    • Look you what hacks are on his helmet !
  • 4

    A try, an attempt.

  • 5

    ball-gamescurlinggamesThe foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.

  • 6

    obsoleteA mattock or a miner's pickaxe.

  • 7

    informalAn improvised device or solution to a problem.

    • Luckily for us J company picked us up in their hack — two snowmobiles with a big inflatable raft strapped between them.
  • 8

    slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsAn expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.

    • Valleysoft released a hack yesterday to fix the "crashes when more than 50 recipients" bug for people who need it right away. The company says its next release will also solve this as well as add new features.
另外 13 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    datedslangcomputingengineeringmathematicsA computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.

    • Tsang is great but Zhou is such a hack — I wouldn't want him on my project.
  • 10

    datedslangcomputingengineeringmathematicsA computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.

    • Terry wrote that module? I didn't know she was a hack too!
  • 11

    slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsAn interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.

    • Flugensoft came out with a neat hack last week that allows your watch to warm up your car if it's below freezing outside.
  • 12

    A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.

    • Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack.
    • Woebot was full of tasks and tricks — little mental health hacks — which at first made me roll my eyes. One day Woebot asked me to press an ice cube to my forehead, to feel the sensation as a way of better connecting with my body.
  • 13

    slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsThe illegal accessing of a computer network.

  • 14

    slangcomputingengineeringmathematicsA video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.

    • […] found out a discarded sex mini-game in the code, and made it available again in the modified PC version of the game that they nicknamed “Hot Coffee.” This hack of the game created a controversy, since the inclusion of sexual content would change its age rating, […]
  • 15

    A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.

  • 16

    slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsTime check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.

  • 17

    hobbiesice-hockeylifestyleThe act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.

    • Zersky is still down after that nasty hack by Lenner.
  • 18

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesA swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.

    • And Melnick goes down with one last hack at an O'Malley fastball.
  • 19

    A kick on the shins in football of any type.

    • Wales are awarded a free kick after a minor hack by Järvinen on Llewellyn.
    • “Ain't there just fine scrummages then! and the three trees you see there which come out into the play, that's a tremendous place when the ball hangs there, for you get thrown against the trees, and that's worse than any hack.”
  • 20

    slanggovernmentmilitarynavalConfinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.

    • You've been busted, you lost your qualifications as section leader three times, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter!
    • “Lieutenant Cauthen, you've got ten seconds to explain yourself before I put you in hack!”
  • 21

    slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsAn airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.

    • Henebry's planes returned to Japan to reload, and early in the morning brought almost 3,000 more troopers to Korea […] Before sunrise next day, all troops in the maneuver had been picked up again and airlifted in “Henebry Hacks” back to Japan.
    • […] so that he had to make the 300-mile journey in a “hack” plane which had spluttering engines, which did not conduce to an easy mind nor to a comfortable journey; […]

hacknoun詞源 2/hæk/

  • 1

    falconryhobbieshuntingA board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.

  • 2

    A food-rack for cattle.

  • 3

    A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.

  • 4

    A grating in a mill race.

hackverb詞源 2/hæk/

  • 1

    To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.

  • 2

    falconryhobbieshuntingTo keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.

hacknoun詞源 3/hæk/

  • 1

    A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.

    • A cold wind, a piercing rain, and a bad road, with a worse hack (for his own horses had been knocked up), rendered more acute the misery which he, as a parted lover, was bound to feel.
  • 2

    A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.

    • I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.
    • [W]e know how the life of any hack, legal or literary, in a curacy, or in a marching regiment, or at a merchant’s desk, is dull of routine, and tedious of description.
  • 3

    derogatorySomeone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.

  • 4

    slangThe driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).

  • 5

    A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.

    • On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.
    • The interurban wasn't running because of the holiday, and the hacks, if there were any, would have been clustered round the Post Tavern at the other end of town.
  • 6

    A hearse.

    • 1920s, Jimmie Rodgers, Frankie and Johnny Bring out the rubber-tired buggie/Bring out the rubber-tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back
  • 7

    derogatoryauthorshipbroadcastingcommunicationsAn untalented writer.

    • Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack.
    • He's nothing but the typical hack writer.
  • 8

    derogatoryOne who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)

另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    derogatoryA talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.

  • 10

    governmentpoliticsA political agitator.

  • 11

    derogatoryA person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.

  • 12

    obsoleteA writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.

    • Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, / Who long was a bookseller's hack.
  • 13

    obsoleteA procuress.

hackverb詞源 3/hæk/

  • 1

    datedTo make common or cliched; to vulgarise.

  • 2

    equestrianismhobbieshorsesTo ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).

  • 3

    obsoleteTo live the life of a drudge or hack.

    • Poor madam , now condemn'd to hack The rest of life with anxious Jack
  • 4

    To use as a hack; to let out for hire.

  • 5

    To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.

    • The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late.
  • 6

    To drive a hackney cab.

    • When I was hacking in Brooklyn, I used to run him over to the Court Street restaurants, where he'd sit in Nick and Tony's Pizzeria […]

hackverb詞源 4/hæk/

  • 1

    To cough noisily.

    • This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking.

hacknoun詞源 4/hæk/

  • 1

    A dry cough.

  • 2

    A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.

    • he speaks to this very question: which he does with so many hacks and hesitations

hackintj詞源 4/hæk/

  • 1

    An onomatopoeia for coughing.

    • Haaaack... Oooooooog... A-CHOO! That was terrible.. I gotta get in shape...

hacknoun詞源 5/hæk/

  • 1

    A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.

hackverb詞源 5/hæk/

  • 1

    To play hackeysack.

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