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You can picture narrow as a lane with the two walls close together — you can stretch out both arms and touch each side. Everything else the word does comes from squeezing that gap: the gap between two runners at the finish line, the gap between a car and the wall it just missed, the gap around what a person is willing to consider.

可以想成一條兩側牆壁靠得很近的小巷：你站在中間，手一伸就能同時碰到左右兩邊。narrow 其他的用法幾乎都是把這個「…更多收起可以想成一條兩側牆壁靠得很近的小巷：你站在中間，手一伸就能同時碰到左右兩邊。narrow 其他的用法幾乎都是把這個「兩邊很近」的距離換個東西來量——換成終點線上兩個選手的差距、換成車子跟牆壁之間那幾公分、換成一個人願意接受的想法範圍。距離一小，畫面就從空間跑到了時間、分數和心胸上。

Four branches

寬度很小（實體）

原型本身：真的可以拿尺量的那個「窄」。

narrow (width) · adjective · B1

Measuring only a short distance from one side to the other, especially compared with how long it is.

窄

差距只有一點點

把兩面牆之間的縫換成「兩個結果之間的縫」。縫很窄，代表差一點就會變成另一種結果，所以講的是勝負很接近，或是危險擦身而過。

narrow margin · adjective · B1

A win, defeat, or result that happens by only a small amount.

些微、微小

範圍受限（抽象）

把小巷的牆改成一個圈子的邊界。圈子畫得很小，裡面能裝的東西、想法、選項就少——所以這一家講的是涵蓋面窄，不是尺寸窄。

limited (range) · adjective · B1

Including only a small number or range of things.

有限的

使變窄、縮小（動詞）

形容詞講的是狀態，動詞講的是走向那個狀態的過程：兩邊往中間靠攏，縫就一點一點小下去。

narrow (make thinner) · verb · B1

To make something less wide, or to become less wide.

變窄、使變窄

原始詞典資料16 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。

narrowadj詞源 1/ˈnæɹəʊ/

  • 1

    Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.

    • a narrow hallway
    • She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
  • 2

    Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.

    • The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.
  • 3

    Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.

    • a narrow interpretation
  • 4

    Having a small margin or degree.

    • a narrow escape
    • The Republicans won by a narrow majority.
  • 5

    datedLimited as to means; straitened

    • narrow circumstances
  • 6

    Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.

    • a very narrow […] and stinted charity
  • 7

    Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.

    • But first with narrow search I must walk round / This garden, and no corner leave unspied.
  • 8

    human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsFormed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    computingengineeringmathematicsOf or supporting only those text characters that can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.

    • a narrow character; a narrow stream

narrownoun詞源 1/ˈnæɹəʊ/

  • 1

    A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.

    • the narrows of New York harbor
    • Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow.

narrowverb詞源 2/ˈnæɹəʊ/

  • 1

    To reduce in width or extent; to contract.

    • We need to narrow the search.
  • 2

    To get narrower.

    • The road narrows.
  • 3

    To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.

    • He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.
    • She wagged her finger in his face, and her eyes narrowed.
  • 4

    businessknittingmanufacturingTo contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

  • 5

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.

    • to narrow an int variable to a short variable

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 Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。