核心畫面
Your tongue sliding across a surface — one quick, light, repeated stroke, the way you lick an ice cream. Hold that single touch of the tongue: light, brushing, in passing. From it grow the noun 'one lick', flames and that brush a surface the same way, a thin brushed-on layer of paint, a quick careless once-over, and a clutch of body-part (lick your lips, lick your wounds, lick someone's boots).
可以想成舌頭滑過一個表面——輕輕、快快、一下一下地掃過去，就像舔冰淇淋那樣。抓住舌尖這一下接觸：很輕、是擦過、是順帶…更多收起
可以想成舌頭滑過一個表面——輕輕、快快、一下一下地掃過去，就像舔冰淇淋那樣。抓住舌尖這一下接觸：很輕、是擦過、是順帶帶過。從這個畫面長出名詞「舔一下」、像舌頭一樣輕掃過表面的火舌與浪、刷上去薄薄一層油漆、草草帶過的清理，以及一串身體動作的慣用語（舔嘴唇、舔傷口、舔靴子）。原始詞典資料21 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。
Lickname
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A surname.
lickverb詞源 1/lɪk/
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To stroke with the tongue.
- The cat licked its fur.
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To lap; to take in with the tongue.
- She licked the last of the honey off the spoon before washing it.
- Jim closed his eyes and licked his vanilla ice cream cone.
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datedTo beat with repeated blows.
- "What a curious kind of a fool a girl is! Never been licked in school! Shucks! What's a licking! That's just like a girl -- they're so thin-skinned and chicken-hearted. […]"
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datedTo defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
- My dad can lick your dad.
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datedTo overcome.
- I think I can lick this.
- This week, diskery and phono manufacturer spokesmen sounded tempering notes of caution as they discussed the many problems still to be licked in developing truly compatible stereo with fidelity standards equal to those now available in monaural disks.
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vulgarslangTo perform cunnilingus.
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To do anything partially.
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To lap.
- Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
licknoun詞源 1/lɪk/
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The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
- The cat gave its fur a lick.
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The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
- Give me a lick of ice cream.
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A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
- a lick of paint
- to put on colours with a lick of the brush
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A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
- The birds gathered at the clay lick.
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A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
- We used to play in the lick.
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A stroke or blow.
- Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
- I went in big licks, and, although it was a good-sized pile, I chopped it all up before he got back at night.
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A small amount; a whit.
- You don't have a lick of sense.
- I didn't do a lick of work today.
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informalAn attempt at something.
- Well, my album did well, but "Ruby" was a timely song and that wasn't the time for it to step out. […] Then Waylon Jennings took a lick at it on an album, and my old buddy Roger Miller covered it, too, in his album. And although they're outstanding artists, nothing much happened with the song.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA short motif.
- There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
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informalA rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
- The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.
- Dandy Marx, a perfect gentleman in the true sense of the word, now drives forth under single harness ; whereas “once upon a time,” he rushed over the ground at a “big lick,” reigning his four beautiful roans, and continually kicking up an extra excitement among the “fashionables.”
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slangAn act of cunnilingus.
- You up for a lick tonight?
licknoun詞源 2
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An instance or opportunity to earn money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc. or its victim; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
- Bitch, pig, pull out with the stick / everything I hit like a lick / We don’t miss
- You see a lick and you rob him / I see a lick then I stop on the block and I pause him
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。