核心畫面
You can hold two pictures of the same object at once: on your head, a hat sits where everyone can see it, so it announces who you are; taken off, it turns upside down into a small bowl you can hide something under, drop names into, or pass around for coins. Almost every hat phrase comes from one of those two positions.
可以想成同一頂帽子有兩個位置。戴在頭上時，它在全身最顯眼的地方，別人一眼就看見，所以它很容易變成「你是誰」的招牌；拿…更多收起
可以想成同一頂帽子有兩個位置。戴在頭上時，它在全身最顯眼的地方，別人一眼就看見，所以它很容易變成「你是誰」的招牌；拿下來翻過來，它就是一個小碗——可以蓋住東西、可以丟紙條進去、可以傳一圈收錢。hat 的片語幾乎都是從這兩個位置長出來的。原始詞典資料18 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。
hatnoun詞源 1/hæt/
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businessclothingfashionA covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
- There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
- Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat!
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A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
- It's all a matter of hats, Minister.
- My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.
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Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
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Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
- We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
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video-gamesA hat switch.
- The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.
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mathematicsmediapublishingThe circumflex symbol.
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raremediapublishingtypographyThe háček symbol.
- I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “hat.”
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informalcomputingengineeringmathematicsThe caret symbol ^.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
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obsoleteA student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
- I knew intimately all the 'Hats' in the University, and I was henceforth looked up to by the 'Caps,' as if my head had gained the height of every hat that I knew.
hatverb詞源 1/hæt/
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To place a hat on.
- After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.
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To appoint as cardinal.
- It was truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.
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To shop for hats.
- We might just go hatting this afternoon […]
- Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.
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To collapse with a template a part of a discussion due to it being overly long, disruptive, or already addressed.
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。