核心畫面

You can picture a volume turned up too far: the sound spills out, fills the room and reaches everyone whether they were listening or not. Every other use of loud keeps that shape — something is turned up past the point where the people around you can ignore it.

可以想成音量旋鈕被轉得太大:聲音滿出來,塞滿整個房間,不管別人有沒有在聽,都被送到耳朵裡。loud 後面的各種用法都更多收起可以想成音量旋鈕被轉得太大:聲音滿出來,塞滿整個房間,不管別人有沒有在聽,都被送到耳朵裡。loud 後面的各種用法都還留著這個形狀——有東西被開得太大,大到旁邊的人沒辦法當作沒看到、沒聽到。

Three branches

音量大、聽得見(本義)

旋鈕轉大的字面版本,形容詞和副詞都在這裡。這一支只講一件事:空氣裡的聲音夠不夠多、傳不傳得到別人耳朵。

noisy · adjective · A2

Making a lot of noise, so that it is easy to hear.

大聲的

大到搶走注意力:吵的人、刺眼的顏色

旋鈕轉大的感覺離開了耳朵,變成一種「量太多、蓋過周圍」的評語。人可以太大聲,衣服也可以太大聲——被蓋過去的只是從別人的談話換成別人的視線。

talks too much · adjective · B1

A person who is loud talks too much and too loudly, in a way that draws attention.

大嗓門的

把話送到底:說得清楚、表態強烈

音量大的好處這時被拿來用:聲音夠大,訊息就一定到得了對方。這一支不是在嫌吵,而是在稱讚訊息傳得又清楚又用力。

loud and clear · r · B1

Loud and clear: in a way that is very easy to hear and understand.

清清楚楚

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。

Loudname

  • 1

    A surname.

loudadj詞源 1/ˈlaʊ̯d/

  • 1

    Of great intensity.

    • Turn that music down; it's too loud.
    • What was that? It sounded like a really loud sneeze.
  • 2

    Noisy.

    • a loud party that went on all night
    • She is loud and stubborn.
  • 3

    Not subtle or reserved, brash.

    • Some of the loudest blubberers are developers who, having made enormous profits as a result of local, state, and federal subsidies, complain that government doesn't do enough for them.
    • Many people, or at least a handful of very loud people, hate to being dubbed Millennial. They see it as derogatory.
  • 4

    Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.

    • a loud style of dress; loud colors
    • In comparison with the loud Portrait of E.C. Ricart (ill. p. 13) two years earlier, Miró has captured a soft, hushed atmosphere here.
  • 5

    slangHigh-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.

  • 6

    Of great intensity.

    • Ohls showed the motorcycle officer his badge and we went out on the pier, into a loud fish smell which one night's hard rain hadn't even dented.

loudnoun詞源 1/ˈlaʊ̯d/

  • 1

    A loud sound or part of a sound.

    • The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]
  • 2

    slangHigh-quality marijuana.

loudadv詞源 2/ˈlaʊ̯d/

  • 1

    Loudly.

    • Who knocks so loud at door?
    • Unluckily that worthy Officer having, in a literal Sense, taken his Fill of Liquor, had been some Time retired to his Bolster, where he was snoaring so loud, that it was not easy to convey a Noise in at his Ears capable of drowning that which issued from his Nostrils.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。