核心畫面
Kill plus -er: the one that ends life. It can be a person, an animal, a disease, or a cold winter — anything that leaves something dead behind it. English then borrows that force and points it at things that do not kill at all: work that wipes you out, or a song so good it knocks people over. The killing has become , but the sense of force stays.
可以想成 kill 加上 -er：把生命結束掉的那一個。可能是人、是動物，也可能是一場疾病、一個寒流——只要它經過之…更多收起
可以想成 kill 加上 -er：把生命結束掉的那一個。可能是人、是動物，也可能是一場疾病、一個寒流——只要它經過之後留下的是屍體，就是 killer。英文接著把這股「一擊斃命」的力道借去講根本不會死人的事：累到癱的工作、好到讓人受不了的歌。殺已經是誇飾，但那種「壓倒性」的感覺留了下來。原始詞典資料12 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。
killernoun/ˈkɪlə/
- 1
One who or that which kills.
- There’s a killer on the loose.
- My cat is a habitual bird killer.
- 2
That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- That test was a killer.
- The final hill in the race course was a killer.
- 3
Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- Digital streaming platforms are CD killers.
- 4
The killer whale.
- Theſe Killers are from twenty to thirty Feet long, and have Teeth in both Jaws that lock one within another. They have a Fin, near the middle of their Backs, four or five Foot long. They go in Company by Dozens, and ſet upon a young Whale, and will bait him like ſo many Bull-dogs; ſome will lay hold of his Tail to keep him from threſhing, while others lay hold of his Head, and bite and threſh him, till the poor Creature, being thus heated, lolls out his Tongue, and then ſome of the Killers catch hold of his Lips, and if poſſible of his Tongue; and after they have killed him, they chiefly feed upon the Tongue and Head, but when he begins to putrify, they leave him. This Killer is without doubt the Orca, that Dr Frangius deſcribes in his Treatiſe of Animals.
- This skull, which has all the appearance of being that of a full-grown animal, is just one quarter the length and breadth of the skull of the adult common Killer (Orca gladiator).
- 5
A remarkably impressive person or thing.
- The head of the Environmental Protection Agency quakes with mirth at his own punch line. Grimaldi chuckles through his teeth. “A killer, Tom, an absolute killer.”
- Picture perfect, you don't need no filter / Gorgeous, make 'em drop dead, you're a killer
- 6
hobbieslifestylesportsA knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- 7
A club used for killing fish.
- 8
hobbieslifestylephilatelyA particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”).
- In the course of its adaptation to non-Indo-Aryan languages, the Burmese script has acquired some features that distinguish it from other Indic scripts. The killer, or virama, participates in some common constructions that would be clumsy to handle the way they would be in the other Indic scripts, so the control function of the virama is separated from the diacritic function of the killer. The virama, 0F4D is used to form conjunct consonants, while the killer, 0F52, is a simple diacritic and has no effect on character shaping. The killer is also combined with the VOWEL SIGN O (0F4B) to form the low level tone vowel “o.” When used this way, this symbol is known as hyei hto, or “thrust forward.”
- For example, although the ‘vowel killer’ diacritic may be called a ‘pulli’ in Tamil, it is still referred to by the Unicode character names as a ‘virama’.
killeradj/ˈkɪlə/
- 1
slangExcellent, very good, cool.
- killer feature
- killer view
- 2
Causing death, destruction, or obliteration.
- killer bee
- killer robot
- 3
Distressing, uncomfortable.
- I had a killer headache this morning.
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。