喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture measuring how far something reaches up — from its bottom to its top. That single 'how high it rises' is the core; everything else stretches it: high places up off the ground, and then, by metaphor, high points of success or feeling — the top of the climb.

可以想成：量一樣東西往上伸到多高——從底部量到頂端。這個「它升得多高」就是核心；其餘都是它的延伸：離地很高的高處，再…更多收起可以想成：量一樣東西往上伸到多高——從底部量到頂端。這個「它升得多高」就是核心；其餘都是它的延伸：離地很高的高處，再用比喻拉到成就或情緒的最高點——也就是攀爬到頂的那個點。

原始詞典資料11 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。

Heightname

  • 1

    A surname.

heightnoun/haɪt/

  • 1

    The distance from the base to the top of something.

    • Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length [title of poem]
    • He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
  • 2

    The distance from the base to the top of something.

    • — What's your height? — 180 centimetres.
  • 3

    geometrymathematicssciencesThe distance from the base to the top of something.

    • The area of a triangle is "a half base times height".
  • 4

    mathematicssciencesThe distance from the base to the top of something.

  • 5

    The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.

    • We flew at a height of 15 000 meters.
    • I'm afraid of heights.
  • 6

    A high point.

    • At length they arrived at the open road, skirted by a wide heath, bounded by the rising heights of the undulating country.
    • The Guardian of the Flooded Village has grown for 350 years on a rocky height near the village of Chudobin, said locally to play host to a devil that sat under it at night, playing the violin and warding off intruders – though in reality the eerie sounds are more likely to have come from the strong winds blowing over the valley.
  • 7

    A high point.

    • She's at the height of her career.
    • […]They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute[…]
  • 8

    A high point.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A high point.

  • 10

    human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsA quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.

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。