核心畫面
You can think of it as light (not heavy) turned into a way of doing something: your hand comes down with almost no weight behind it. The knock, the touch, the press is there — you can feel it — but it barely presses in, so it stays soft, brief and quiet. From that one gesture, everything else follows: a thin scatter of flour weighs almost nothing, and so does a matter you barely let press on you.
可以想成把 light(不重)搬到「怎麼做」上面:手放下去幾乎沒帶重量。碰是碰到了、敲也敲了,感覺得出來,但沒有壓進…更多收起
可以想成把 light(不重)搬到「怎麼做」上面:手放下去幾乎沒帶重量。碰是碰到了、敲也敲了,感覺得出來,但沒有壓進去,所以整個動作是軟的、短的、安靜的。之後的意思都從這個手勢長出來——薄薄撒上的一層麵粉幾乎沒有重量,而一件你不讓它壓在心上的事,同樣沒有重量。原始詞典資料1 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。
lightlyadv/ˈlaɪtli/
- 1
In a light manner.
- As a teacher, I don't take rudeness in class lightly.
- Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
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。