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You can picture HIGH as the basic vertical fact of something reaching far up — a mountain, a wall, a shelf above your head. Your eyes have to travel UPWARD to reach the top. Almost everything else 'high' does is this same upward picture borrowed for other kinds of 'up': up the number scale, up the social ladder, up the pitch of a sound, up into feeling. The body memory stays the same — more height, more of whatever is being measured, further from the ground.

可以把 high 想成一個很單純的「往上很遠」的畫面：一座山、一面牆、一個在你頭頂上方的架子——你的視線得一路「往上…更多收起可以把 high 想成一個很單純的「往上很遠」的畫面：一座山、一面牆、一個在你頭頂上方的架子——你的視線得一路「往上」才能看到頂。high 幾乎所有別的用法，都是把這個「向上」的畫面借去量別的東西：數字往上爬、地位往上爬、聲音的音高往上爬、情緒往上飄。身體記憶始終一樣——越高，那樣東西就越多、離地面越遠。

原始詞典資料40 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。

Highname

  • 1

    A surname.

highadj詞源 1/haɪ/

  • 1

    Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:

    • The balloon rose high in the sky. The wall was high. a high mountain
    • Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole, Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.
  • 2

    Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:

    • She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
    • A nightgown with a high neck and long sleeves may have the fullness set into a yoke.
  • 3

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesPhysically elevated, extending above a base or average level:

    • the pitch (or: the ball) was high
  • 4

    Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:

  • 5

    Having a specified elevation or height; tall.

    • three feet high three Mount Everests high
    • I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
  • 6

    Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.

    • The oldest of the elves' royal family still conversed in High Elvish.
    • The Barnacles were a very high family, and a very large family. They were dispersed all over the public offices, and held all sorts of public places.
  • 7

    Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.

    • the high priest, the high officials of the court, the high altar
  • 8

    Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.

    • high crimes, the high festival of the sun
另外 19 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.

    • high (i.e. intense) heat; high (i.e. full or quite) noon; high (i.e. rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i.e. complete) pleasure; high (i.e. deep or vivid) colour; high (i.e. extensive, thorough) scholarship; high tide; high [tourism] season; the High Middle Ages
    • High time it is this war now ended were.
  • 10

    Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.

    • to hear and answer such high things
    • Plain living and high thinking are no more.
  • 11

    Extreme, excessive; now specifically very traditionalist and conservative.

    • high church High Tory
    • Furder, what wil you answeare for your keping a daye, cessation &c to St. Michael & al Angells? how wil you excuse your self of most high idolatrie, advancing your self in thinges you neuer sawe, rashlie puffed vp of your fleshlie minde, and not holding the heade, depriuing others of their Crowne?
  • 12

    Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.

    • in high spirits
    • 1970, Grateful Dead, High Time, on the album Workingman's Dead I was having a high time, living the good life.
  • 13

    Keen, enthused.

    • "Conversely, just because I am not high on positivity, it does not mean I am necessarily high on negativity."
    • I'm not that high about the relationship.
  • 14

    informalIntoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.

    • "Three extremely high people showing up at the animal shelter like WE FOUND A DOG would be really funny, but..."
    • Ooh! Remember when you got high at McDonald's and told Gangle to kill herself?
  • 15

    Luxurious; rich.

    • high living, the high life
    • I was living the high lifestyle in famous sex clubs, relaxing on luxurious sofas, in the saunas and whirlpools, enjoying moments of excitement with my male and female companions while sipping champagne from crystal glasses.
  • 16

    Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.

    • a high tone
    • An high looke, and a proud heart, […] is sinne.
  • 17

    With tall waves.

    • The sea is as high as ever. I shouldn't think any boat could put out today.
  • 18

    Remote (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.

    • high latitude, fish species in high arctic and antarctic areas
    • But other euphausiids, Euphausia crystallorophias, are found in the pack ice region of the high Antarctic as food of Blue and Minke Whales (Marr, 1956). E. vallentini is very important in the lower Antarctic region, around […]
  • 19

    Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).

    • My bank charges me a high interest rate.
    • I was running a high temperature and had high cholesterol.
  • 20

    Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).

    • Carrots are high in vitamin A. made from a high-copper alloy
    • Anyone can determine for himself whether certain wire is high carbon or not. Heat a piece of the wire red hot and while red plunge into water till cold.
  • 21

    Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).

    • The note was too high for her to sing.
  • 22

    human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsMade with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.

  • 23

    card-gamesgamespokerGreater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.

    • I have KT742 of the same suit. In other words, a K-high flush.
    • 9-high straight = 98765 unsuited
  • 24

    card-gamesgamesGreater in value than other cards, denominations, suits, etc.

    • North's hand was high. East was in trouble.
    • Cutler pushed forward the two necessary white chips. No one's hand was high, and Loomis made a slight winning.
  • 25

    Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.

    • Epicures do not cook game before it is high.
    • The tailor liked his meat high.
  • 26

    nauticaltransportNear, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.

    • NO NEARER! (arrive! Fr.) the command given by the pilot of quarter-master, to the helmsman, to steer the ship no higher to the direction of the wind than the sails will operate to advance the ship in her course.
  • 27

    Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.

    • Our defensive line is too high.

highadv詞源 1/haɪ/

  • 1

    In or to an elevated position.

    • How high above land did you fly?
    • The desks were piled high with magazines.
  • 2

    In or at a great value.

    • Costs have grown higher this year again.
  • 3

    At a pitch of great frequency.

    • I certainly can't sing that high.

highnoun詞源 1/haɪ/

  • 1

    A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven) or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).

    • It was one of the highs of his career.
    • Inflation reached a ten-year high.
  • 2

    A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven) or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).

    • Today's high was 32 °C.
  • 3

    A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.

    • Falling from cloud nine / Crashing from the high / I'm letting go tonight / Yeah, I'm falling from cloud nine
    • They will have to reflect on a seventh successive defeat in a European final while Chelsea try to make sense of an eccentric season rife with controversy and bad feeling but once again one finishing on an exhilarating high.
  • 4

    A drug that gives such a high.

    • No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.
  • 5

    informalclimatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesA large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.

    • A large high is centred on the Azores.
  • 6

    card-gamesgamesThe highest card dealt or drawn.

highverb詞源 2/haɪ/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo rise.

    • The sun higheth.

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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。