從腦袋裡生出來的
這一支的材料是「想像」:做出來的東西在現實裡並不存在。
adjective · B1
A made-up story, name, word or excuse is one that somebody invented, so it is not true and the thing it describes does not really exist.
編造的
One way to hold this word: made-up is what something looks like after a person has had a hand in it. It was not simply there. Somebody produced it — out of their head, out of a make-up box, out of a pile of parts, out of a load of soil. So the word never describes the raw thing; it describes the result, with a person behind it. Which sense you are reading comes from what is being described: a story, a face, a bed, a piece of land, or a person.
Four branches
從腦袋裡生出來的
這一支的材料是「想像」:做出來的東西在現實裡並不存在。
adjective · B1
A made-up story, name, word or excuse is one that somebody invented, so it is not true and the thing it describes does not really exist.
編造的
加上去的一層
這一支的材料是實體的:有人把某樣東西一層一層加到表面上。
adjective · B2
Someone who is made-up has make-up on their face — powder, colour, lipstick and so on.
化了妝的
把散的東西擺到位
這一支的材料本來就存在,人做的事是「排好、裝好」,不是無中生有。
adjective · C1
Put together and arranged from separate parts, so the thing is now ready to use: a bed with its sheets on, a page with its pieces laid out, a box packed with its contents.
整理好的、組好的
人被好消息填滿(英國地方口語)
這一支被形容的是人,不是東西。手上的資料沒有交代它怎麼來的,所以這裡不宣稱它是從上面的畫面長出來的。
adjective · C1
Very pleased and happy about something good that has just happened. The source marks this use as informal and regional in the UK.
開心得不得了