被掛起來的那塊布
同樣是上面固定、下面垂著，只是這次那樣東西本身有了名字。
noun · B2
A large piece of cloth that is hung on a wall to make a room look better.
壁掛布、掛毯
核心畫面
Picture something held at the top and left loose at the bottom, with nothing underneath it. That is the whole word: fixed above, free below. A basket on a hook, a cloth flat against a wall, a vine dropping down a wall — each one is the same arrangement seen in a different place. The heaviest use of the word puts a person in that position as a punishment, which is why it is a grave word and not a light one.
可以想成一樣東西上面被抓住、下面懸空，底下沒有支撐。整個字講的就是這件事：上頭固定，下頭放著。掛鉤上的籃子、貼著牆的…更多收起
可以想成一樣東西上面被抓住、下面懸空，底下沒有支撐。整個字講的就是這件事：上頭固定，下頭放著。掛鉤上的籃子、貼著牆的一大塊布、從牆頭垂下來的藤蔓，都是同一個安排出現在不同地方。這個字最重的一個用法，是把人放進這個位置當成處罰，所以它在英文裡是個嚴肅的字，不會拿來輕鬆講。From the word’s history
Wiktionary gives the noun as Middle English hangynge, honginge, equivalent to hang + -ing.
維基詞典把這個名詞記成中古英文 hangynge、honginge，等於 hang 加上 -ing。所以字面就是「吊著這件事」，三個用法都還貼在這個畫面上。
Wiktionary entry for hanging (noun, etymology 2): From Middle English hangynge, honginge, equivalent to hang + -ing (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:556203913:24414)
Two branches
用繩子執行的死刑
同一個畫面被用在人身上，並且寫進法律裡；這是這個字最重的一支。
noun · B2
Killing a person as a punishment by putting a rope around their neck and dropping them. The word can also name one such event, so you can say a hanging or two hangings.
絞刑
原始詞典資料9 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。
hangingadj詞源 1/ˈhæŋ.ɪŋ/
- 1
Suspended.
- The hanging vines made the house look older than it was.
- 2
board-gameschessgamesUnprotected and exposed to capture.
- 3
slangball-gamesbaseballgamesHittable; poorly executed by the pitcher, hence relatively easy to hit.
- hanging breaking ball
- hanging slider
- 4
slangUgly; very unattractive; disgusting.
- MUGSEY: Yeah. You fancy ‘im don’ you. LEANNE: No I don’t. Shut yer mouth. MUGSEY: Your mum said he’s gonna end up just like his dad. LEANNE: She don’ even know Bingo. Anyway, I don’t fancy ‘im, ‘e’s hanging.
- 5
mediapublishingtypographyExtending beyond the margins of a page.
- hanging punctuation
hangingnoun詞源 2/ˈhæŋ.ɪŋ/
- 1
The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).
- Hanging is the punishment for one convicted of war crimes, there.
- The hanging of the bandits was attended by the whole village.
- 2
Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters).
- The various hangings on that Christmas tree look nice.
- 3
The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.
- I dislike the cramped hanging in the gallery of 18th century painters.
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。