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A jag, in this sense, is a short stretch of time when a feeling runs away with you and you cannot quite put the brakes on.
A jag它 in this sense在這個意思裡 is a short stretch of time是指一小段時間 when a feeling runs away with you情緒突然失控帶著你走 and you cannot quite put the brakes on你怎麼樣都煞不住車
The picture teachers give most often is a crying jag: you start crying and it keeps coming, even after the first reason has passed. People also say a laughing jag, and in looser American talk a drinking jag or a shopping jag — a spell of doing too much of one thing.
The picture teachers give most often老師最常舉的例子 is a crying jag是a crying jag（一陣狂哭） you start crying and it keeps coming你開始哭，然後停不下來 even after the first reason has passed就算一開始哭的理由已經過去了 People also say大家也會說 a laughing jaga laughing jag（一陣狂笑） and in looser American talk在比較隨性的美式口語裡 a drinking jag or a shopping jag還有a drinking jag或a shopping jag a spell of doing too much of one thing指一段做同一件事做過頭的時間
The jag is the burst itself, not the tear or the drink.
The jag它 is the burst itself指的是那陣爆發本身 not the tear or the drink不是眼淚或酒本身
It is informal, a little old-fashioned in some places; many students will meet fit or bout more often (“a crying fit”). You sit through a jag; you do not “jag” a person in this meaning.
It它 is informal, a little old-fashioned in some places很口語，在有些地方還有點老派 many students will meet fit or bout more often很多學生比較常遇到的是fit或bout (“a crying fit”)（像「a crying fit」） You你 sit through a jag是撐過一陣jag you do not “jag” a person in this meaning這個意思下不會把「jag」當動詞用在人身上
組成The noun is from late Middle English jagge, from Old English giagga, giacga. The ultimate origin could be sound-symbolic of sudden movement. The verb is from jaggen, from Old English giacgian.
同家族的字
- jaggedbuilt on jag in the older “sharp point” picture; same spelling family, though this filing is the sudden spell of feeling
原始詞典資料17 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。
Jagnoun
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informalA Jaguar car.
- "One of the ticket collectors at our local station," observed Mr. Fiennes, "has a Jag."
jagnoun詞源 1/d͡ʒæɡ/
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A sharp projection.
- garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles
- The thick black cloud was cleft, and still / The Moon was at its side; / Like waters shot from some high crag, / The lightning fell with never a jag, / A river steep and wide.
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A part broken off; a fragment.
- some Jaggs will ſuffice to be recited
- I depart as air .... I shake my white locks at the runway sun, / I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
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A flap, a tear in a clothing
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA cleft or division.
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A medical injection, a jab.
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dialectalA thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
jagverb詞源 1/d͡ʒæɡ/
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To cut unevenly.
- On the Friday […] we had been playing tennis and in some way Geoffrey jagged a finger nail so that it kept catching in his things whenever he touched it.
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To pierce with a sharp object.
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To tease.
jagnoun詞源 2/d͡ʒæɡ/
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Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
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A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
- Consider, the pessimists argue, the vast number of plays which it is only possible to sit through with the assistance of what Ella Wheeler Wilcox would call a mild jag.
- ‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’
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A fit, spell, outburst.
- Of course she did not lose her sense of humor (not necessarily to be confused with her laughing fits, which are crying jags turned inside out according to the shrinks).
- Miles had a cold, he always had a cold, it went unnoticed, went without saying, he had coughing jags and slightly woozy eyes, completely unremarked by people who knew him […]
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A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
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archaicA leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.
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。