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核心畫面

One way to picture messenger: the person carrying the message, not the person who wrote it. Everything the word does turns on that gap — the courier at the door, the verb for sending something by hand, and the fixed phrase about taking your anger out on the carrier instead of the .

可以想成 messenger 是「送訊息的人，不是寫訊息的人」。這個字的每一種用法都靠這個落差：門口那位快遞、把東西…更多收起可以想成 messenger 是「送訊息的人，不是寫訊息的人」。這個字的每一種用法都靠這個落差：門口那位快遞、把東西專人送出去的動詞，以及那句提醒你別把氣出在送信人身上的固定說法。

From the picture

固定說法：怪罪報信人

整句話都建立在那個落差上：壞消息是他帶來的，但不是他造成的——氣他等於找錯了對象。

shoot the messenger · noun · B1

In the phrase blame/shoot the messenger: to get angry at the person who tells you bad news, instead of at the person who caused the problem.

怪罪報信人

Also in this word

message carrier · noun · A2

Someone whose job is to take messages or documents to people, or someone who takes a message for another person.

信差；送信人

send by messenger · verb · B1

To send a letter, document, or package by messenger.

專人遞送

原始詞典資料15 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。

Messengername

  • 1

    A surname originating as an occupation for a messenger.

  • 2

    rareA male given name of historical usage.

messengernoun/ˈmɛs.ən.d͡ʒɚ/

  • 1

    One who brings messages.

  • 2

    The secretary bird.

  • 3

    The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).

  • 4

    lawA person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.

    • The Messenger under the joint Commission of Bankruptcy might have seized the Whole, if they had remained in their Warehouse
  • 5

    computingengineeringmathematicsAn instant messenger program.

    • The 4 primary messengers include ^([sic]) AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, and MSN Messenger.
    • Have them meet you on your favorite messenger program. IMs provide a means of instant chat without waiting on someone to respond back to you.
  • 6

    A forerunner or harbinger.

    • a messenger of doom
  • 7

    A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.

  • 8

    A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.

另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    nauticaltransportA light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.

  • 10

    geographynatural-sciencesoceanographyA weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.

  • 11

    A messenger-at-arms.

  • 12

    bowlinghobbieslifestyleA pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.

messengerverb/ˈmɛs.ən.d͡ʒɚ/

  • 1

    To send something by messenger.

    • I'll messenger over the signed documents.

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。