喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture two separate things being brought together until they touch and hold as one — two fitted end to end, two hands clasped, two roads running into each other. The heart of join is this moment where 'two' becomes 'connected'. Everything else — joining a club, joining your friends, a battle joined — is the same picture applied to people and groups instead of objects: separate parties coming together into one body.

可以想成兩個原本分開的東西被帶到一起、貼合成一個整體：兩段水管接起來、兩隻手握在一起、兩條路交會成一條。join 的…更多收起可以想成兩個原本分開的東西被帶到一起、貼合成一個整體：兩段水管接起來、兩隻手握在一起、兩條路交會成一條。join 的核心畫面可以想成「兩個」變成「相連的一個」這一刻。其他用法——加入社團、去和朋友會合、開戰——其實都是同一張畫面套到人和群體身上：原本各自分開的一方，併入同一個整體。

原始詞典資料15 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。

joinverb/ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/

  • 1

    To connect or combine into one; to put together.

    • The plumber joined the two ends of the broken pipe.
    • We joined our efforts to get an even better result.
  • 2

    To come together; to meet.

    • Parallel lines never join.
    • These two rivers join in about 80 miles.
  • 3

    To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.

    • Forſake thy king and do but ioyne with me And we will triumph ouer al the world.
    • […]Nature and Fortune ioyn’d to make thee great.
  • 4

    To come into the company of.

    • I will join you in watching the football game as soon as I have finished my work.
    • No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
  • 5

    To become a member of.

    • Many children join a sports club.
    • Most politicians have joined a party.
  • 6

    computingdatabasesengineeringTo produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.

    • By joining the Customer table on the Product table, we can show each customer's name alongside the products they have ordered.
  • 7

    To unite in marriage.

    • Into the whiche holy eſtate theſe two perſones pꝛeſent: come nowe to be ioyned.
    • […]this fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a ſhrunke pannell[…]
  • 8

    obsoleterareTo enjoin upon; to command.

    • And they ioyne them penaunce / as they call it / to faſt / to goo pylgremages ⁊ geve ſo moch to make ſatiſfaccion with all.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To accept, or engage in, as a contest.

    • to join encounter, battle, or issue
    • Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, […]

joinnoun/ˈd͡ʒɔɪn/

  • 1

    An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.

    • We found 217 putative interchromosomal joins. Only one of these joins (in the paternal assembly of HG02080) was located in a euchromatic, non-acrocentric region and was manually confirmed to be a misassembly.
  • 2

    An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.

  • 3

    computingdatabasesengineeringAn intersection of data in two or more database tables.

  • 4

    computingengineeringmathematicsThe act of joining something, such as a network.

    • The offline domain join is a three-step process described subsequently: […]
  • 5

    algebramathematicssciencesThe lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.

  • 6

    algebraic-geometrygeometrymathematicsThe smallest linear space containing both of two given linear spaces.

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。