喜樂美語

核心畫面

Think of something forced into a space that is already full. It is held on every side at once, and there is nothing left to move into. Pull on it and it does not give. That one squeezed-tight picture can sit on a single window in its frame, on a whole street of cars, on bodies in a narrow corridor, or even on the air that a radio signal is trying to cross.

jammed 可以想成這樣一個畫面：一個東西被硬塞進一個已經滿了的空間，四面同時被夾住，連一點能動的縫都不剩。你去拉…更多收起jammed 可以想成這樣一個畫面：一個東西被硬塞進一個已經滿了的空間，四面同時被夾住，連一點能動的縫都不剩。你去拉它，它完全不讓。這個「擠到死」的畫面，可以套在一扇卡在框裡的窗戶上，也可以套在整條塞滿車的路上、走廊裡貼著彼此的人群，甚至是無線電訊號要穿過去的那段空中。換的只是被塞滿的是什麼，感覺是同一個。

Three branches

被夾住、動不了

這是核心畫面最直接的樣子：一個具體的東西被四周夾住。

adjective · B1

Pressed or pushed so tightly into a space that it cannot move at all, even when you pull or push hard.

卡住的

滿到沒有空隙

同樣是「沒有空隙」，只是被塞滿的從一個東西換成一個地方，或一群人。

adjective · B1

So full of people, vehicles, or things that there is almost no empty space left; often used with 'with' to say what has filled the place.

擠滿的

訊號被蓋住、透不過去

這是一條教學上的連結，不是歷史來源：把「空間被塞滿」想成空中那段頻道被雜訊佔滿。

adjective · C1

Used about a radio, phone, or television signal that someone has blocked on purpose by sending out other signals over it, so that it cannot be received.

被干擾的

原始詞典資料4 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。

jammedadj/dʒæmd/

  • 1

    Stuck.

    • The window is jammed shut.
    • How to treat a jammed finger or toe.
  • 2

    Overcrowded; congested.

    • Certain routes of the city are heavily jammed.
    • These roads are hopelessly jammed with cars and mobile homes during holidays.
  • 3

    Rendered unusable by intentional interference.

    • All their broadcasts are jammed.
    • The jammed programming is being distributed on USB sticks instead.

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。