喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold it: a long, low sound coming out of someone who is not trying to speak. It's not a word — it's what leaks out when what's inside is too much: pain, misery, or pleasure. Everything else the word does grows from that sound.

一個又長又低的聲音，從一個並不打算講話的人身上流出來。它不是詞句，是裡面的感覺太滿了、自己溢出來的那種聲音——痛的時…更多收起一個又長又低的聲音，從一個並不打算講話的人身上流出來。它不是詞句，是裡面的感覺太滿了、自己溢出來的那種聲音——痛的時候、難受的時候，或者舒服到受不了的時候。這個字最要緊的兩件事都在這個畫面裡：一是聲音「長而低」（不是尖叫、不是短促的哼），二是它是不自覺的。這個字底下所有的意思，都是從這個聲音長出來的。

Three branches

人發出的長低聲

這一支就是核心畫面本身，動詞和名詞是同一個聲音的兩種說法。

moan, verb, groan · verb · C2

To make a long, low sound because you are in pain, unhappy, or because something feels very good.

呻吟

風的嗚咽

人的呻吟被借給了風：風穿過縫隙時發出的長低聲，聽起來太像人在難受了，所以就用同一個字。

moan, verb, wind sound · verb · C2

If the wind moans, it makes a long, low sound.

嗚咽

沒完沒了的抱怨

從聲音跳到說話：一個人一直用那種拖長的、不高興的語調講自己多不順，聽在別人耳裡就像持續的呻吟。核心的「聲音」被轉成了「講話的樣子」。

moan, verb, complain · verb · C2

To keep complaining in an annoying way, especially in an unhappy voice and without a strong reason.

抱怨

原始詞典資料9 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。

moannoun詞源 1/məʊn/

  • 1

    A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.

    • let out a deep moan
    • We heard the distant moan of a stag in pain.
  • 2

    obsoleteA lament or sorrow.

    • to make one's moan
    • it shall be my daily grief and moan, that I am so dull, & do so little[…]But if when all is done that we can do, you will leave us nothing but our tears and moans for self-destroyers, the sin is yours, and the suffering shall be yours.

moanverb詞源 1/məʊn/

  • 1

    To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn.

    • Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
    • 1708, Matthew Prior, the Turtle and the Sparrow Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
  • 2

    To grieve.

  • 3

    To make a moan or similar sound.

    • She moaned with pleasure and squirmed with delight from receiving oral sex.
    • They shared a common dread that he would begin moaning.
  • 4

    To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.

    • ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.
  • 5

    To complain; to grumble.

  • 6

    obsoleteTo distress (someone); to sadden.

    • which infinitely moans me

moanadj詞源 2/məʊn/

  • 1

    Of or pertaining to a moa.

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。