細薄的布料
這一支跟草地沒有關係，是另一個字的後代，只是拼法撞在一起。學的時候當兩個字記比較省力。
fine cotton or linen cloth · noun · C1
Cotton or linen made into cloth that is very fine, thin, and light.
麻紗；細麻布
核心畫面
Picture the flat green behind a house: grass kept short, no flowers in it, somewhere to walk on or sit on. That is one lawn. The other lawn — a fine, light cloth — only shares the spelling; the two words came into English from different places.
可以想成：房子後面那一塊平平的綠地，草修得短短的，沒有種花，可以走上去也可以坐下來。這是其中一個 lawn。另一個 …更多收起
可以想成：房子後面那一塊平平的綠地，草修得短短的，沒有種花，可以走上去也可以坐下來。這是其中一個 lawn。另一個 lawn 指一種很細很薄的布，只是拼法一樣而已——這兩個字是從不同的地方進到英文裡的。From the word’s history
Two different words with the same spelling. The grass sense goes back to Middle English launde (c. 1300) 'glade, open space in a forest', from Old French lande 'heath, moor, clearing'; the 'grassy ground kept mowed' sense is recorded by 1733. The cloth sense is early 15c. and is probably from Laon, a city in northern France that was a centre of linen manufacture.
這是兩個拼法相同、來源不同的字。草坪的 lawn 可以追到中古英語 launde（約1300年），意思是「林中空地」，源自古法語 lande（荒原、空地）；「修剪過的草地」這個意思大約在1733年才出現。布料的 lawn 則出現在15世紀初，一般認為得名自法國北部的城市 Laon，那裡是亞麻布的產地。所以不必勉強把草地和布料想成同一個畫面。
Online Etymology Dictionary, entries 'lawn (n.1)' and 'lawn (n.2)' (etymonline.com/word/lawn)
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Also in this word
grass area · noun · A2
An area of short grass kept cut around a house or in a park.
草坪
原始詞典資料11 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。
Lawnname/lɒn/
- 1
A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- 2
An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States.
- 3
A town in Texas, United States.
- 4
An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.
lawnnoun詞源 1/lɔːn/
- 1
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
- Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
- (1) Higher rates for land uses which are a significant source of nutrient inputs to the Lakes, eg. turf farms. Or again, other things equal, high density housing with less lawn would be preferred to estates with medium density and rates structure could be adjusted accordingly.
- 2
historicalregionalAn open space between woods.
- 3
biologynatural-sciencesAn overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
lawnverb詞源 1/lɔːn/
- 1
To furnish with a lawn.
- By opening all the arches of the several apartments […], by lawning the area within, and by a judicious use of ivy where any blank spaces require to be broken, or any deformities concealed, this might be made a beautiful and singular scene; […]
lawnnoun詞源 2/lɔːn/
- 1
A type of thin linen or cotton fabric tightly woven of fine threads. (Traditionally expensive and luxurious in centuries past.)
- Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.
- The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
- 2
Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
- 3
obsoleteA piece of clothing made from lawn.
- […] she was as the wild yoncopin to the calla lily. Marjie knew how to dress. To-day, shaded by the buggy-top, in her dainty light blue lawn, with the soft pink of her cheeks and her clear white brow and throat, she was a most delicious thing […]
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。