核心畫面

The single man at the very top — the male ruler everyone else answers to.

可以想成站在最頂端的那一個人:一國之中地位最高、別人都要聽他的男性統治者。core 那個「最高、最有權、所有人之上」更多收起可以想成站在最頂端的那一個人:一國之中地位最高、別人都要聽他的男性統治者。core 那個「最高、最有權、所有人之上」的位置感,是 king 一切延伸的源頭——不管是某領域的翹楚、棋盤上最重要的那顆子,還是「過得像國王」的爽快,背後都是同一個「居於最高、無人能及」的畫面。

Four branches

君王/最頂尖

從真正的國王,到「某領域的國王」,是一條很直的延伸:既然 king 代表「站在最高、無人能及」,把這個位置借給任何領域裡最強、最重要的人或物,就成了「…之王、翹楚」。

a country's male ruler · noun · A2

A country's male ruler, who holds that place by being born royal.

國王

過得像國王

這一族借的是「當國王是什麼感覺」:享受、舒服、要什麼有什麼。重點不在統治,而在那份「像最高位者一樣被善待」的爽快。

live like a king · noun · A2

Used in phrases like 'live like a king' or 'feel like a king' to say you are very happy, comfortable, or successful.

(過得)像國王一樣

棋牌裡的「王」

遊戲把「最高地位」的概念做成了實體的子或牌:那顆叫 king 的棋、那張畫著國王的牌,都是因為它在遊戲的階級裡居於頂端或特別重要,沿用了現實中「王」的份量。

king (chess piece) · noun · A2

The most important piece in the game of chess.

(西洋棋)王

一大筆錢(固定片語)

這個片語借的是「國王值多少」:要贖回一個國王得付出天文數字,所以 a king's ransom 就用來形容「多到嚇人的一筆錢」。還是繞著「國王=最高、最貴重」這個核心。

a king's ransom · noun · A2

Used in the phrase 'a king's ransom' to mean a very large amount of money.

一大筆錢

原始詞典資料38 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。

Kingnoun/kɪŋ/

  • 1

    radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter K.

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    The title of a king.

    • As we climbed the Marykirk Bank Ogilvie spoke of the passes leading over to Deeside, and of the Royal deer forests around Balmoral; then, with mingled pride and modesty, he added, "I've driven the King seven times."
    • One, a grant by Archbishop Wulfred to that community, is datable to 825x32; while the other two (both copies of the same document) record an agreement between Archbishop Ceolnoth and Kings Egbert and Æthelwulf which was enacted in 838.
  • 3

    A King pigeon.

Kingname/kɪŋ/

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    An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for someone who either acted as if he were a king or had worked in the king's household.

    • The Russians clinched the victory when Vera Zvonareva rallied to defeat Vania King, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, in the first reverse singles match, giving her team a 3-0 lead. […] After Russia went ahead, 3-0, Ahsha Rolle defeated Elena Vesnina, 6-3, 6-4, then King paired with Liezel Huber to beat Vesnina and Svetlana Kuznetsova, 7-6 (3), 6-4, in the doubles.
    • So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”
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    rail-transportrailwaystransportKing class, a class of steam locomotives once used on the GWR which were all named after kings.

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    A placename:

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    A placename:

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另外 3 個記錄的用法
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    A placename:

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kingnoun詞源 1/ˈkɪŋ/

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    A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.

    • Henry VIII was the king of England from 1509 to 1547.
    • Charles the third became the new king of England from 2022.
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    A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.

    • The British Parliament has had made it for it in the past the claim that it could do anything excepting convert a woman into a man.[…]And the high court [of Amsterdam] has done it by deciding that all officials and public servants shall take their oath of allegiance not to Queen Wilhelmina but to King Wilhelmina.
    • Hatshepsut was ruling as a king, not queen and she needed to be recognised as such.
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    historicalA male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.

    • Old Culwaddy the ‘king’, squatting by the galley fire, looked up questioningly[.]
  • 4

    A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.

    • Howard Stern styled himself as the "king of all media".
    • "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came[…]and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins.[…]"
  • 5

    A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.

    • In times of financial panic, cash is king.
    • It would be difficult, for example, to imagine a bigger, more obvious subject for comedy than the laughable self-delusion of washed-up celebrities, especially if the washed-up celebrity in question is Adam West, a camp icon who can go toe to toe with William Shatner as the king of winking self-parody.
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    slangA male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.

    • I'm sure you got the job, king.
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    board-gameschessgamesA component of certain games.

    • The objective of each player is to place the opponent’s king ‘under attack’ in such a way that the opponent has no legal move. […] If the arbiter observes both kings are in check, or a pawn stands on the rank furthest from its starting position, he/she shall wait until the next move is completed.
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    card-gamesgamesA component of certain games.

另外 9 個記錄的用法
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    A component of certain games.

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    A component of certain games.

    • In knockemdowns and bowls ten pins are used, the centre one being called the king, and the ball has to be grounded before it reaches the frame.
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    Senses related to animals

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    biologynatural-scienceszoologySenses related to animals

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    Senses related to animals

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    Senses related to animals

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    Senses related to large sizes of certain items

    • Try asking for a king-size bed next time because kings are usually firmer.
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    slangSenses related to large sizes of certain items

    • Oi mate, have you got kings?
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    graph-theorymathematicssciencesA vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.

kingverb詞源 1/ˈkɪŋ/

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    To crown king, to make (a person) king.

    • 1982, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review, Volume 47, page 16, The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play […] .
    • One narrative is the kinging and unkinging of Macbeth; the other narrative is the attack on Banquo's line and that line's eventual accession and supposed Jacobean survival through Malcolm's successful counter-attack on Macbeth.
  • 2

    To rule over as king.

    • And let us do it with no show of fear; / No, with no more than if we heard that England / Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance; / For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d, / Her sceptre so fantastically borne / By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, / That fear attends her not.
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    To perform the duties of a king.

    • 1918, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman, Volume 35, page 675, He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.
    • Second, Mentor (the old man) combined the wisdom of experience with the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to convey kinging skills to young Telemachus.
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    To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.

    • The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.
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    To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.

    • If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postponed the evil day.
    • I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to get kinged, but I slid my checker back[…].
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    To dress and perform as a drag king.

    • Through the ex-centric diaspora, kinging in postcolonial Australia has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities have emerged through the contestations of "home" and "host" cultures.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。