核心畫面
The noun of kill: not the killer and not the dead body, but the act itself — the moment one life is deliberately ended, treated as an event you can count, report and investigate. Newspapers say three killings this month; the word points at the deed.
可以想成 kill 的名詞形：講的不是兇手，也不是屍體，而是「動手取走一條命」這件事本身——一個可以被數、被報導、被…更多收起
可以想成 kill 的名詞形：講的不是兇手，也不是屍體，而是「動手取走一條命」這件事本身——一個可以被數、被報導、被調查的事件。新聞說 three killings this month，指的就是發生了三起這樣的事。原始詞典資料8 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。
Killingname
- 1
A surname.
killingadj/ˈkɪl.ɪŋ/
- 1
That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
- 2
datedDevastatingly attractive.
- Should true Proportion ev'ry Mortal grace, / And Semetry be seen in ev'ry Face: / Beauty no longer would be thought divine, / Nor would its Charms with half the Lustre shine: / No courtly Dame a killing Look could boast, / If once the Foils of Homeliness were lost.
- He sprang to open the door for the ladies, when they retired, with the most killing grace […]
- 3
informalThat makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
- Livia found her ‘killing’, and derived such amusement from her Martinique French that he was forced to enjoy her as well.
killingnoun/ˈkɪl.ɪŋ/
- 1
The act of killing.
- In fact, Tarzan had never killed for “pleasure,” nor to him was there pleasure in killing.
- 2
An instance of someone being killed.
- The outrage over the brutal killings of peaceful demonstrators in Lhasa in March 1989 quickly faded after the massacres in Beijing in June.
- A police officer in neighboring Mekit county told RFA he was informed that police were searching the houses for a suspect from Pichan (in Chinese, Shanshan) county in Xinjiang’s Turpan prefecture when the killings occurred.
- 3
informalA large amount of money.
- He made a killing on the stock market.
- The result is, in the end, the superintendent agrees to hold up another race, and the victim arranges to obtain all the money he can get in order to bet it on a sure thing. When the great "killing" is made, and the stripped victim goes back to consult with the superintendent[…]
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。