喜樂美語

核心畫面

The picture you can start from is a whole pig's back leg, salted or hung in smoke so it keeps for months — a big, solid, slightly comic slab of meat you slice from. The other uses of ham are best treated as separate words that happen to look the same, rather than as pictures grown out of this one.

可以想成一整隻豬的後腿：抹了鹽、或吊在煙裡燻過，所以放好幾個月都不會壞，要吃的時候一片一片切下來。那是一塊厚實、有點…更多收起可以想成一整隻豬的後腿：抹了鹽、或吊在煙裡燻過，所以放好幾個月都不會壞，要吃的時候一片一片切下來。那是一塊厚實、有點笨重、看起來很有份量的肉。至於這個字的其他用法（無線電玩家、演過頭的演員），比較保險的想法是把它們當成剛好長得一樣的另外幾個字，而不是硬從火腿這個畫面推出去。

原始詞典資料21 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。

Hamname詞源 1/hæm/

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A suburb and ward in Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4657).

  • 3

    A small village in Ham and Stone parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6898).

  • 4

    A suburban area in the borough of Richmond upon Thames and borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1771).

  • 5

    Two districts (East Ham and West Ham) in borough of Newham, Greater London.

  • 6

    A hamlet in Northbourne parish, Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3254).

  • 7

    A small village and civil parish in eastern Wiltshire, England, south of Hungerford, West Berkshire (OS grid ref SU3363).

  • 8

    A village in Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND2373)

Hamname詞源 2/hæm/

  • 1

    biblicallifestylereligionA son of Noah and the brother of Japheth and Shem.

hamnoun詞源 1/ˈhæm/

  • 1

    anatomymedicinesciencesThe region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.

  • 2

    A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.

    • "I'll have you so your hams will stand out like horse's shanks!" de declared.
  • 3

    Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.

    • a little piece of ham for the cat
    • She put some ham in the beans and cut up some sweet potatoes to boil.
  • 4

    The back of the thigh of humans or certain other animals.

  • 5

    informalElectronic mail that is wanted; email that is not spam or junk mail.

hamnoun詞源 3

  • 1

    actingbroadcastingentertainmentAn overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.

    • Writing in The New Yorker in 2005, James Wood praised Mr. McCarthy as “a colossally gifted writer” and “one of the great hams of American prose, who delights in producing a histrionic rhetoric that brilliantly ventriloquizes the King James Bible, Shakespearean and Jacobean tragedy, Melville, Conrad, and Faulkner.”
  • 2

    broadcastingmediaradioAn amateur radio operator.

hamverb詞源 3

  • 1

    actingbroadcastingentertainmentTo overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.

    • Near-synonym: camp it up

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。