核心畫面
Picture the light on the table: a single object, standing on its own, whose whole job is to send light into the space around it. Point that same object at a body to send warmth instead of light, and English still calls it a lamp.
可以想成:床頭櫃上那盞燈——一個獨立的物件,站在那裡,工作就是把光送到周圍。有意思的是,如果同一種裝置送出去的不是光…更多收起
可以想成:床頭櫃上那盞燈——一個獨立的物件,站在那裡,工作就是把光送到周圍。有意思的是,如果同一種裝置送出去的不是光而是熱,英文照樣叫它 lamp。要跟 light 分清楚:light 是「光」或天花板上的照明,lamp 是那個可以搬動、有燈罩或燈座的器具。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。
Lampname
- 1
A surname.
lampnoun/ˈlæ̞mp/
- 1
A device that generates light, heat, or other electromagnetic radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
- 2
A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
- 3
A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
- 4
An eye.
lampverb/ˈlæ̞mp/
- 1
slangTo hit, clout, belt, wallop.
- Another man said, “If someone [a customer]^([sic]) gave me loads of hassle, I'd end up lamping them.” Several of them, in fact, had lost their jobs when they lamped the boss.
- All for the pleasure of lamping a twat in the face.
- 2
To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
- 3
slangTo hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
- I'm in my Flavmobile cold lamping. I took a G upstate cold camping. To the Poconos, we call a hideaways. A bag of franks and a bag of Frito-Lays.
- 4
To make (something, such as a vase or urn) into a table lamp.
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。