喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can think of loving as love that has moved out of the heart and into the hands. Someone is not only feeling warm about you; they are doing something about it — holding you, making your tea, fixing the thing you broke. Everything this word does grows from that one picture of love showing up in action: love aimed at a person, love aimed at a thing someone is making, and love named as the thing itself.

loving 可以想成「愛跑到手上」。不只是心裡暖暖的，而是有人真的動手去做：抱你一下、幫你泡茶、把你弄壞的東西修好…更多收起loving 可以想成「愛跑到手上」。不只是心裡暖暖的，而是有人真的動手去做：抱你一下、幫你泡茶、把你弄壞的東西修好。這個字的各種用法，就像都從這個畫面長出來——愛對著人、愛對著一件正在做的東西、或者乾脆把這份愛本身講成一樣東西。

From the word’s history

The source records loving as love + -ing, inherited from Middle English lovyng(e) and Old English lufung. The -ing keeps the verb's action inside the word, which fits a word that is about love being done rather than only felt.

資料把 loving 記成 love 加 -ing，來自中古英文 lovyng(e)、古英文 lufung。-ing 把動詞的動作感留在字裡面。這正好對上它現在的用法：愛是被做出來的，不只是被感覺到的。

Wiktionary entry for loving (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:910877378): 'Inherited from Middle English lovyng(e) (love), inherited from Old English lufung. By surface analysis, love + -ing.'

Three branches

愛對著人：看得出來的疼

這一組最貼近核心畫面：愛直接落在一個人身上，而且看得見。

adjective · B1

Acting in a way that shows you love someone — in how you speak to them, touch them, and take care of them.

疼愛人的；有愛的

把某件事放心上：X-loving

愛的對象從人換成一件事，而且被壓縮成一個掛在名詞後面的零件。

adjective · B2

Used as the second half of a hyphenated word to say that the thing named in the first half matters a lot to someone and takes up a big place in their life: peace-loving, fun-loving, home-loving, music-loving.

熱愛…的

愛對著東西：慢慢做、很在乎

同樣是「愛被做出來」，只是接受的一方換成一棟老房子、一頓飯、一部片。

adjective · B2

Done slowly and with a great deal of care and attention, because the person doing the work cares about the thing itself.

細心而用心的

原始詞典資料10 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。

Lovingname/ˈlʌvɪŋ/

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A placename

  • 3

    A placename

  • 4

    A placename

lovingnoun/ˈlʌv.ɪŋ/

  • 1

    The action of the verb to love.

    • all natural lovings and longings

lovingadj/ˈlʌv.ɪŋ/

  • 1

    Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.

    • his loving wife, her loving husband

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。