Start with a cut piece of marble: a pale, cool stone with darker lines wandering through it, never straight, never repeating. The word can point at either half of that picture. Point at the stone and it means the thing is made of marble. Point at the lines and it means the thing only looks that way — paper, glass, a piece of beef. The ending -ed can be read as carrying the look of, which is what lets one word cover both.
From the word’s history
The dictionary gives the whole word as marble plus -ed. Read the ending as carrying or bearing, and both uses follow directly: a thing carrying marble as its material, or a thing carrying marble's pattern.
字典把這個字直接記成 marble 加 -ed。把字尾讀成「帶著、具有」，兩個用法就順下來了：帶著大理石這個材質，或是帶著大理石那種紋路。兩邊其實是同一個組合，只是眼睛看向畫面裡的不同地方。
Wiktionary, "marbled"
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
marbledadj
- 1
Composed of marble; having a marble exterior.
- Goe great with Tygers, Dragons, Wolues, and Beares, Teeme with new Monſters, whom thy vpward face Hath to the Marbled Manſion all aboue Neuer preſented.
- 2
Having marbling.
- 3
Resembling marble.
- The hanging-bowl lampshade in marbled glass was two decades pre-war – the kind that marked out aged people.
- 4
foodlifestylemeatInterlaced with fat.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。