核心畫面
You can picture two arms closing around something and pulling it in until there is no gap left — chest against chest, no space in between. Everything else this word does comes from that one picture: sometimes the arms hold a person, sometimes your own knees, sometimes it is a road or a dress that stays pressed against a shape with no gap.
可以想成兩隻手臂圈起來、把對方整個往自己身上收，收到中間不留縫隙——胸口貼著胸口的那個畫面。這個字後面所有的用法都是…更多收起
可以想成兩隻手臂圈起來、把對方整個往自己身上收，收到中間不留縫隙——胸口貼著胸口的那個畫面。這個字後面所有的用法都是從這個畫面長出來的：有時候手臂圈的是一個人，有時候圈的是自己的膝蓋，有時候「貼著不留縫」的不是手臂，而是一條沿著海岸走的路、或一件順著身體曲線的衣服。原始詞典資料7 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。
hugnoun/hʌɡ/
- 1
A close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug").
- 2
A particular grip in wrestling.
hugverb/hʌɡ/
- 1
obsoleteTo crouch; to huddle as with cold.
- They had a slight breast work, and they hugged down behind it and waited.
- That is why they are so little known and never explored. During the day, when a Chilean cruiser nosed around uncomfortably close, the little sloop would be hugged under the lee of one of the islands, sail lowered and anchor dropped.
- 2
To cling closely together.
- 3
To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms.
- Billy hugged Danny until he felt better.
- They hugged for what seemed like an eternity.
- 4
To stay close to.
- to hug the shore, to hug the coastline
- We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.
- 5
To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish.
- We hug intellectual deformities, if they bear our names
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。