喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can think of liking as the verb like packed up into something you can hold. Once it is a thing, you can have it, grow it, or lose it, and you can also hold it up against what is in front of you. That second move is where the rest of the word comes from: your liking becomes a quiet measure of what suits you. Every use of the word travels inside a fixed frame — a liking for, take a liking to, to your liking, too something for my liking — so the frame is really what a is learning here.

liking 可以想成：把動詞 like 打包成一個拿得住的東西。既然是東西，你就可以擁有它、養大它，也可以失去它。…更多收起liking 可以想成：把動詞 like 打包成一個拿得住的東西。既然是東西，你就可以擁有它、養大它，也可以失去它。而且你還能把它拿起來，對著眼前的東西比一比。後面幾個用法就是從這個動作長出來的——你的 liking 變成一把安靜的尺，量的是「這合不合我」。要注意的是，這個字幾乎不單獨出現，它總是住在固定的句型裡：a liking for、take a liking to、to your liking、too … for my liking。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary traces the noun to Old English līcung, meaning pleasing, pleasure or liking, formed from like plus -ing. So English packed the act of liking into a thing very early, which is why the word still behaves like something you have or develop.

Wiktionary 把這個名詞追到古英語 līcung，意思是「令人喜歡、喜悅、喜好」，由 like 加 -ing 組成。可以想成：英文很早就把「喜歡」這個動作包成一個東西，所以直到今天，它還是那種你可以 have、可以 develop 的東西。

Wiktionary entry 'liking' (noun, etymology 2), packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:869735371

From the picture

拿這份喜歡當尺

把心裡那份喜歡舉起來，對著眼前的東西比一比：合得上就滿意，超過去就不舒服。這一家的兩個說法，差別只在比出來的結果。

noun · C1

If something is to someone's liking, they are pleased with it and find it good enough.

合某人的意

Also in this word

noun · B2

The feeling of liking someone or something, used in the pattern a liking for someone/something.

喜好／偏好

noun · B2

If you take a liking to someone or something, you begin to like them, often quickly and without deciding to.

開始喜歡上

原始詞典資料3 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。

likingnoun詞源 2/ˈlaɪkɪŋ/

  • 1

    A like; a predilection.

    • The likings and dislikings of society, or of some powerful portion of it, are thus the main thing which has practically determined the rules laid down for general observance, under the penalties of law or opinion.
    • The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice.
  • 2

    archaicApproval.

    • goods bought on liking

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。