核心畫面

Picture a body with nothing on it — no clothes, no cover, no layer in between. Everything else the word does comes from removing that layer somewhere else: a flame with no glass around it, a person with nothing to hide behind, a truth with nothing it.

可以想成:一具身上什麼都沒有的身體——沒有衣服、沒有遮蔽、中間沒有任何一層東西擋著。這個字的其他用法,都是把「那一層更多收起可以想成:一具身上什麼都沒有的身體——沒有衣服、沒有遮蔽、中間沒有任何一層東西擋著。這個字的其他用法,都是把「那一層」從別的地方拿掉:燭火外面沒有罩子、人身上沒有可以躲的東西、一句真話外面沒有包裝。所以看到 naked,先找「少了哪一層」。

From the picture

外面沒有東西罩著

把「沒穿衣服」從身體搬到別的東西上:少的不是衣服,而是那層本來會罩住、擋住、保護的東西。

vulnerable and unprotected · adjective · B2

Feeling weak and open to being hurt, with nothing to protect or hide you.

毫無防備的

毫不掩飾地攤在眼前

拿掉的是「包裝」:一件事本來可以講得婉轉一點,但這裡連那層修飾都沒有,直接露出來,所以聽起來有點刺人。

blatant, undisguised (feelings) · adjective · B2

Used before words like 'truth' or 'fear' to say something is shown openly and is a bit shocking, with nothing to soften or hide it.

赤裸裸的

Also in this word

without clothes · adjective · B2

With no clothes on, or with part of the body left uncovered.

赤裸的

原始詞典資料19 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。

nakedadj詞源 1/ˈneɪkɪd/

  • 1

    Bare, not covered by clothing.

    • He was as naked as the day he was born.
    • Christ commeth not bare or naked, but clothed and accompanied with all his mercies.
  • 2

    obsoleteLacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.

    • For no body would staye to give them intelligence, the countrey people running evry wher out of ther waye, and some of them flying out of ther bedds nacked in their shirts, who runne to the neerest rockes on the sea syde; so formidable was ther very name.
  • 3

    Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.

    • This is the naked truth.
    • The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.
  • 4

    Involving naked people.

    • So here I went the first time into a naked bed, only my drawers on; and did sleep pretty well: but still both sleeping and waking had a fear of fire in my heart, that I took little rest.
    • The satirical historian has not blushed to describe the naked scenes which Theodora was not ashamed to exhibit in the theatre.
  • 5

    obsoleteUnarmed.

    • You an’t even with me yet, ſays ſhe; I ſcorn as much to take up a Sword againſt a Naked Man; as you ought to have ſcorn’d, if you had been a Gentleman, to give the Lie to a Woman.
  • 6

    Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.

    • The tendrils of the naked flame stretched into the skies.
    • Lighting was unimaginative for the standard stock with naked tungsten filament bulbs and metal reflectors. However, all compartments had individual reading lights above the seats with attractive glass shades.
  • 7

    Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.

    • If all celestial bodies visible to the naked eye are thus mapped on the celestial sphere, it becomes apparent that the vast majority of them remain in fixed patterns with respect to each other: They form recognizable constellations that, in turn, remain unchangeably distributed.
  • 8

    biologynatural-scienceszoologyLacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.

    • We naked apes must be ever watchful for thorns and poison ivy as we hike the trail.
另外 10 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.

    • There was a knock at the door. “Enter,” said the princess. An officer appeared with his naked sword in his hand.
  • 10

    Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.

    • I entered her naked and came in her too.
  • 11

    businessfinanceLacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.

    • a naked put; a naked call
  • 12

    Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.

    • I feel naked without my mobile phone.
  • 13

    Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.

    • a naked burrito (i.e. one without a tortilla)
    • a naked burger (without a bun)
  • 14

    literaryLacking resources or means, poor.

    • I knowe my self moost naked in al artes, / My comune ne vulgare eke moost interupte, / And I conversaunte and born in the partes / Where my natyfe langage is moost corrupt, / And with most sundry tonges myxt and rupte.
    • I am a poor Man, naked, / Yet ſomething for Remembrance; four a piece, Gentlemen, / And ſo my Body where you pleaſe.
  • 15

    Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of].

    • Freewill is made naked of all maner merite.
    • Their eyes were opened to ſee their nakedneſſe: naked they were of diuine protection and fauor, naked of Angelicall guard and cuſtodie, naked of Humane puritie and holineſſe, naked of dutifull subiection from the rebelling Creatures;
  • 16

    obsoleteBlank, clean, empty.

    • For in the first it finds the mind naked and unprepossessed with any former notions, and so easily and insensibly gains upon the assent, grows up with it, and incorporates into it.
  • 17

    Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.

  • 18

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsNot hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。