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Picture the flat piece that sits over an opening — the top of a pot, a jar, a bin. Put it on and whatever is inside stays inside, unseen; lift it off and the inside is suddenly open to the air and to everyone's eyes. What makes a lid a lid is that it goes both ways: it can be pressed down, and it can be taken off.
可以想成蓋在一個開口上的那一片東西：鍋蓋、罐蓋、垃圾桶蓋。蓋上去，裡面的東西就留在裡面，看不到也跑不出來；掀開，裡面…更多收起
可以想成蓋在一個開口上的那一片東西：鍋蓋、罐蓋、垃圾桶蓋。蓋上去，裡面的東西就留在裡面，看不到也跑不出來；掀開，裡面的東西就整個攤在空氣裡、也攤在別人眼前。lid 這個字有意思的地方在於它是可以來回的——「蓋著」和「掀開」是兩個相反的動作，而後面那些片語意思，正好一半走蓋、一半走掀。原始詞典資料14 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。
lidnoun/lɪd/
- 1
The top or cover of a container.
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slangA cap or hat.
- “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.
- 3
slangOne ounce of cannabis.
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slanghobbieslifestylesportsA bodyboard or bodyboarder.
- Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.
- the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders
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biologynatural-sciencesAn operculum or other lid-like cover.
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slangA motorcyclist's crash helmet.
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slangIn amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
- 8
A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
- 9
A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
- Basically he says that there is a lid on my organization and on my future, and that lid is me. I am the problem with my company and you are the problem with your company.
- 10
slangA kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).
- 11
The sky.
- 12
One's mind.
lidverb/lɪd/
- 1
To put a lid on (something).
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。