核心畫面

Picture a classroom five minutes before the bell: sound everywhere, more than you want. Noisy can be thought of as pointing at wherever that sound sits — either at what is making it (the kids, the old fridge, the ) or at the place it fills up (the street, the restaurant). Same word, two ends of the same sound: the source and the room it lands in.

可以想成下課前五分鐘的教室:到處都是聲音,而且多到你不太想要。noisy 的畫面可以想成「指向那些聲音待的地方」——更多收起可以想成下課前五分鐘的教室:到處都是聲音,而且多到你不太想要。noisy 的畫面可以想成「指向那些聲音待的地方」——有時候指的是發出聲音的那一方(小孩、老冰箱、機車),有時候指的是被聲音塞滿的那個空間(街道、餐廳)。同一個字,站在同一串聲音的兩端:一端是聲音的來源,一端是聲音落下來的地方。

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聲音太多:發出的人,和被塞滿的地方

兩個意思是同一串聲音的兩端,靠句子裡被形容的東西分辨:形容的是人或機器,就是「它在製造聲音」;形容的是地方,就是「這裡充滿聲音」。

making a lot of noise · adjective · A2

Making a lot of noise — used about people, machines, or things that are too loud.

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原始詞典資料4 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。

noisyadj/ˈnɔɪzi/

  • 1

    Making a noise, especially a loud unpleasant sound

    • the noisy crowd.
    • For obvious reasons the percussion is normally arranged along the back of the platform, whether centrally or to one side, and sometimes also in two tiers, the heavy, noisier instruments behind, and the pitched, agile instruments such as vibraphone, marimba, etc. in front. An outstanding exception, however, exists in Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamion where the composer expressly desired that the all-important kitchen department be spread out in front of the strings and hence nearest the audience.
  • 2

    Full of noise.

    • a noisy bar
    • This market is the noisiest and swarmiest centre of noisy and swarming Florence, and I always like to pass through it on that account.
  • 3

    Unpleasant-looking and causing unwanted attention

    • noisy clothes
  • 4

    engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesAccompanied by or introducing random fluctuations that obscure the real signal or data

    • Looked at more carefully, and over a longer time period, the relationship between the economy and the incumbent’s performance is positive, but noisy. “The incumbent wins when the economy is good” is a useful, weak prior, but not an iron law, and one that historically has had many exceptions.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。