喜樂美語

核心畫面

Think of a pump pushing air into something. The skin stretches, the shape gets big and firm, and from the outside it looks full — but what went in was only air. English uses that one picture for a tyre, for a price, for a man's opinion of himself, and for a page of heavy words. In each case the size is real and the content is not.

inflated 可以想成打氣的畫面：氣被灌進去，外皮撐開，東西看起來又大又飽滿，但裡面裝的只是空氣。英文把這同一個…更多收起inflated 可以想成打氣的畫面：氣被灌進去，外皮撐開，東西看起來又大又飽滿，但裡面裝的只是空氣。英文把這同一個畫面用在輪胎、價錢、一個人對自己的看法，還有一整頁大而空的文字上。記住「體積變大、東西沒變多，戳一下就消下去」，幾個意思就連在一起了。

Three branches

真的灌了氣

這是字面上的意思，也是整個畫面的來源；其他幾組都是把這個動作搬到看不見的東西上。

adjective · B1

Filled with air or gas so that something becomes firm and holds its full shape — used about things like balloons, tyres, air beds and rubber boats. One source also allows a filling of fluid.

充飽氣的

數字被撐大

把打氣的動作用在數字上：外表的數字變大，東西本身的價值沒有跟著變大。

adjective · B2

Used about prices, costs, salaries, bills and other amounts that are much higher than they should be, so that they seem unfair or unreasonable.

抬高的

人和話被撐大

被灌氣的東西變成看不見的：一個人的自我評價，或者一段文字。外面鼓、裡面空的感覺完全一樣。

adjective · B2

Used about opinions, ideas, claims, or a person's sense of their own importance, when they make someone or something seem better, bigger or more important than they really are.

自視過高的

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。

inflatedadj/ɪnˈfleɪtɪd/

  • 1

    Filled with air or fluid

    • The inflated balloons danced in the breeze.
  • 2

    Expanded; in a state of inflation, of abnormally increased size, amount, etc.

    • His inflated belly looked uncomfortable.
  • 3

    economicssciencesIn a state of higher cost.

    • His inflated prices made the vendor unpopular.
    • Apprenticeship programmes supply the industry with an ongoing cohort of qualified talent. It is much cheaper to train new people than to pay inflated wages to attract existing talent. Apprenticeships are also a useful way of teaching the practical, hands-on skills that the modern railway needs.
  • 4

    Pompous; arrogant (of a person or ego)

  • 5

    Containing excessive, meaningless words, particularly for show

    • The inflated speech did not impress the audience.
  • 6

    Higher that the true figure

    • inflated incidence figures

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。