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Jade is a green stone (sometimes other colors too) used to make jewelry and carvings - it's especially in Chinese culture, where jade bracelets and pendants are seen as lucky and traditional. As a color word, 'jade' or 'jade green' describes that soft green shade. In old literature, 'a jade' could also mean a tired old horse, or, as an insult, a woman with a bad reputation - this old use is very rare today and you won't hear it in modern English.
玉、翡翠（在中華文化中特別受重視的寶石）／玉綠色（顏色）
組成This word probably comes from an old Spanish phrase meaning 'stone of the side', because people once believed carrying jade could cure pain in that part of the body.
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。
Jadename詞源 1
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A female given name from English.
- Emily. Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours —
Jadename詞源 2
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A surname
jadenoun詞源 1/d͡ʒeɪd/
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A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
- Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
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A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
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A succulent plant, Crassula ovata.
jadeadj詞源 1/d͡ʒeɪd/
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Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
jadenoun詞源 2/d͡ʒeɪd/
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A horse too old to be put to work.
- Shee hath more qualities then a Water-Spaniell, […] Shee can fetch and carry: why a horſe can doe no more; nay, a horſe cannot fetch, but onely carry, therefore is ſhee better then a Iade.
- That Iade hath eate bread from my Royall hand. / This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.
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derogatoryA bad-tempered or disreputable woman.
- You alwayes end with a iades tricke, I knowe you of olde.
- However, what ſhe withheld from the Infant, ſhe beſtowed with the utmoſt Profuſeneſs on the poor unknown Mother, whom ſhe called an impudent Slut, a wanton Huſſy, an audacious Harlot, a wicked Jade, a vile Strumpet, with every other Appellation with which the Tongue of Virtue never fails to laſh thoſe who bring a Diſgrace on the Sex.
jadeverb詞源 2/d͡ʒeɪd/
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To fatigue, tire, or weary (someone or something).
- [T]he Mind once jaded by an attempt above its Power, it either is diſabl'd for the future, or elſe checks at any vigorous Undertaking ever after, at leaſt is very hardly brought to exert its Force again on any Subject that requires Thought and Meditation.
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obsoleteTo treat (someone or something) like a jade; to spurn.
- The nere-yet beaten Horſe of Parthia, / We haue iaded out o'th' Field.
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obsoleteTo make (someone or something) contemptible and ridiculous.
- I do not now foole my ſelfe, to let imagination iade mee; for euery reaſon excites to this, that my Lady loues me.
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。