喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold it: someone puts the same thing into many and takes them to the post office. That one act of sending is the picture inside mailing — and the paper that lands in sixty letter boxes is that same act, arriving.

可以想成這樣一個畫面：有人把同一份東西裝進很多信封，一次交給郵局。這個「一次寄出」的動作，就是 mailing 的核…更多收起可以想成這樣一個畫面：有人把同一份東西裝進很多信封，一次交給郵局。這個「一次寄出」的動作，就是 mailing 的核心畫面。動作本身叫 mailing。動作送到別人手上的那一疊東西，也叫 mailing。同一個字，看的是同一件事的兩端。

From the picture

寄出去的那一批

同樣的畫面，鏡頭從「寄」移到「被寄出去的東西」。英文常常用同一個字稱呼動作和動作的成果，mailing 就是其中一個。

noun · B2

A letter, catalogue, form or other piece of post that an organization sends out to a lot of people at the same time, often to advertise something or to tell people about news or an event.

郵寄宣傳品

Also in this word

noun · B2

The work of sending letters, catalogues, samples or other things to people by post, especially the job of sending them to a lot of people at once.

郵寄作業

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。

mailingnoun詞源 1/ˈmeɪlɪŋ/

  • 1

    An act of sending mail.

    • He has taken to flooding the mailboxes of gay organizations in recent months, urging us to do this or buy that; two recent examples of such mailings are especially telling. In one, he suggests that we join a national writers union […] The other mailing offers us the chance to pay for the privilege of sending flyers for the gay books Witomski thinks are so terrible.

mailingnoun詞源 2/ˈmeɪlɪŋ/

  • 1

    obsoleteA farm.

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。