喜樂美語

核心畫面

The core picture you can hold is a hand (or a machine) taking hold of something and moving it upward into the air — raising it off the ground. Almost every other meaning is this same upward movement, applied to a body part, to spirits, to prices, to mist, or turned into a thing that goes up (a lift in a building, the lift of an aircraft).

可以想成最核心的畫面比較像：一隻手（或一台機器）抓住某個東西，把它往上抬、舉到空中，讓它離開地面。幾乎所有其他意思都…更多收起可以想成最核心的畫面比較像：一隻手（或一台機器）抓住某個東西，把它往上抬、舉到空中，讓它離開地面。幾乎所有其他意思都是這個「往上」的動作換個對象——抬起身體、振奮心情、推高價格、雲霧上升消散——或者把這個往上的動作變成一個東西（大樓裡上下移動的電梯、托住飛機的升力）。

原始詞典資料40 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。

liftverb詞源 1/lɪft/

  • 1

    To raise or rise.

    • The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.
    • You never lift a finger to help me!
  • 2

    To raise or rise.

    • Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.
  • 3

    slangTo steal.

    • Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side, And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.
    • “Wilbert Cream is a ... what's the word?” I referred to the letter. “A kleptomaniac […] Does any thought occur to you?” “It most certainly does. I am thinking of your uncle's collection of old silver.” “Me, too.” “It presents a grave temptation to the unhappy young man.” “I don't know that I'd call him unhappy. He probably thoroughly enjoys lifting the stuff.”
  • 4

    slangTo source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.

    • Based on a similarity across a range of Anglo-Indian entries in these three dictionaries, it appears that (along with other lexis) Barrère and Leland (1898) copied this entry from Hotten (1864), who had in turn lifted it directly from Stocqueler (1848).
  • 5

    slangTo arrest (a person).

    • Maybe the police lifted him and he's in Castlereagh [Interrogation Centre] because he'd been lifted three or four times previously and took to Castlereagh. They used to come in and raid the house and take him away.
  • 6

    To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).

  • 7

    To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)

    • The Gunners boss has been heavily criticised for his side's poor start to the Premier League season but this result helps lift the pressure.
  • 8

    To disperse, to break up.

    • About three o'clock in the mornin', the company began to lift, and the room to get thinner and thinner.
    • Others thought the bank [of clouds] would "lift," and that it would be a fine "kwait nicht"; and as they were generally unwilling to lose a night's fishing, most of the crews resolved to proceed to sea, though not without serious misgivings[…]
另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    informalTo lift weights; to weight-lift.

    • She lifts twice a week at the gym.
  • 10

    To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

    • strained by lifting at a weight too heavy
  • 11

    To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.

    • The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.
    • being lifted up with pride
  • 12

    obsoleteTo bear; to support.

    • Th' earth him underneath Did grone, as feeble so great load to lift.
  • 13

    To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

  • 14

    category-theorycomputingengineeringGiven morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.etymology 1, noun 20)

  • 15

    category-theorycomputingengineeringGiven morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.etymology 1, noun 20)

    • Finally, we can lift a partial function into a regular (total) function that returns an Option or a Some(value) when the partial function is defined for the input argument or None when it isn't.
  • 16

    businessfinanceTo buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.

  • 17

    hobbieshuntinglifestyleTo take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.

    • I lifted the hounds (hoping to catch the leading ones there) to the far side of Hallaton Thorns.

liftnoun詞源 1/lɪft/

  • 1

    An act of lifting or raising.

  • 2

    The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.

    • He gave me a lift to the bus station.
    • Accordingly, in spite of many grumbles and remonstrances from Summerlee, I ordered an additional tube, which was placed with the other in his motor-car, for he had offered me a lift to Victoria.
  • 3

    A mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.

    • Take the lift to the fourth floor.
    • Even the lift in which the three of them were whirled up to one of the upper floors of the huge building was to the girl a new and delightful experience. Daisy had always lived a simple, quiet life in the little country town where dwelt Old Aunt, and this was the first time a lift had come her way.
  • 4

    A mechanical device for raising vehicles for service, so that it is easier for a mechanic to get beneath them.

  • 5

    An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.

  • 6

    hobbieslifestylesportsAny technique for lifting weights.

    • This is actually an old-school circus lift—the sort of maneuver you imagine guys with twirly mustaches performing using cartoony barbells.
  • 7

    The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.

  • 8

    historicalslangA thief.

    • The lift came into the shop dressed like a country gentleman, but was careful not to have a cloak about him, so that the tradesman could see he had no opportunity to conceal any goods about his person.
另外 13 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    dancedancinghobbiesThe lifting of a dance partner into the air.

  • 10

    Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.

  • 11

    An improvement in mood.

    • The news rocked us, especially since we were anticipating a lift for our spirits under the grim circumstances.
    • Just to think he had both a mistress and a wife gave him a lift. He needed a lift, for although he'd had promotion, his wasn't an exciting job.
  • 12

    The amount or weight to be lifted.

    • What's the maximum lift of this crane?
  • 13

    The space or distance through which anything is lifted.

  • 14

    A rise; a degree of elevation.

    • the lift of a lock in canals
  • 15

    A liftgate.

  • 16

    nauticaltransportA rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

  • 17

    engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesOne of the steps of a cone pulley.

  • 18

    A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.

  • 19

    hobbieshorologylifestyleThat portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

    • some measure the total lift and others only the lift on one side, a quantity which is not exactly half of the total lift
  • 20

    category-theorycomputingengineeringA morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).

    • For a covering space p#58;#92;tildeX#92;toX a path #92;gamma [i.e. a continuous map #91;0,1#93;#92;toX] in X has a unique lift #92;tilde#92;gamma starting at a given point of p#123;-1#125;(#92;gamma(0))
  • 21

    broadcastingmediaA shorter extract from a commercial/advertisement, able to be used on its own.

liftnoun詞源 2/lɪft/

  • 1

    dialectalAir.

  • 2

    dialectalThe sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.

    • No, no, Leddy! the sun maun be up in the lift whan I venture to her den.

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。