喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a heap of something you can't count one by one — water, time, money, effort — and you're pointing at how BIG that heap is. 'much' is the word that measures a large, uncountable quantity, and from there it stretches to measure the SIZE of a difference or the STRENGTH of a feeling.

可以想成你面前有一堆數不出顆數的東西——水、時間、力氣、錢——而 much 就是在指這一堆「有多大」。它的核心畫面比…更多收起可以想成你面前有一堆數不出顆數的東西——水、時間、力氣、錢——而 much 就是在指這一堆「有多大」。它的核心畫面比較像一把用來量「不可數的份量」的尺：先量「東西有多少」，再延伸去量「差距有多大」「感受有多強」。

原始詞典資料14 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。

Muchname

  • 1

    A surname from German.

muchdet/mʌt͡ʃ/

  • 1

    A large amount of.

    • Do you think I have much chance of catching the train on time?
    • After much discussion, we decided to set about the task with much enthusiasm.
  • 2

    Used to indicate, demonstrate or compare the quantity of something.

    • Add this much water and no more.
    • Take as much time as you like.
  • 3

    archaicA great number of; many (people).

    • ye shall not nede to seke hym soo ferre sayd the Kynge / for as I here saye sir Launcelot will abyde me and yow in the Ioyous gard / and moche peple draweth vnto hym as I here saye
    • When Jesus was come downe from the mountayne, moch people folowed him.
  • 4

    regionalmany ( + plural countable noun).

    • They got so much things to say right now, they got so much things to say.

muchadj/mʌt͡ʃ/

  • 1

    obsoleteLarge, great.

    • Thenne launcelot vnbarred the dore / and with his lyfte hand he held it open a lytel / so that but one man myghte come in attones / and soo there came strydyng a good knyghte a moche man and large / and his name was Colgreuaunce / of Gore / and he with a swerd strake at syr launcelot myȝtely and he put asyde the stroke
  • 2

    obsoleteLong in duration.

muchadv/mʌt͡ʃ/

  • 1

    To a great extent.

    • I don't like melon much, and I don’t much care for milk chocolate either: I find them both much too sweet.
    • However much I eat, I never get fat.
  • 2

    To a great extent.

    • He is much fatter than I remember him.
    • Honestly, I can't stand much more of this.
  • 3

    Often; frequently.

    • Does he get drunk much?
  • 4

    Used to indicate or compare extent.

    • I don't like Wagner as much as I like Mozart.
  • 5

    slangCombining with an adjective or (occasionally) a noun, used in a rhetorical question to mock someone for having the specified quality.

    • Jamie's always preaching about how we need to save a planet when she drives literally everywhere she goes. Like, hypocritical much?
    • The moment you've been waiting for—the lowdown on the Overstock hottie. I talked to her by phone last week. (Jealous much, gentlemen? Ad Report Card talks to all the fine ladies.)
  • 6

    obsoleteAlmost.

muchpron/mʌt͡ʃ/

  • 1

    A large amount or great extent.

    • From those to whom much has been given much is expected.
    • We lay awake for much of the night.

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。