喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the stage before a concert: dozens of players, strings on one side, brass behind, one person on the podium holding them together. American English also uses the word for the seats right in front of that group, down at stage level.

可以想成：音樂會開演前的舞台——幾十位演奏者，弦樂在一邊、銅管在後面，指揮站在中間把大家攏在一起。美式英文還把緊鄰這…更多收起可以想成：音樂會開演前的舞台——幾十位演奏者，弦樂在一邊、銅管在後面，指揮站在中間把大家攏在一起。美式英文還把緊鄰這群人的那區座位（跟舞台同一層的前排）也叫 orchestra，兩個意思其實是「那群人」和「那群人前面的位子」。

From the picture

劇院裡最靠舞台的座位區

這一區的位子就在樂團所在的那一層、緊靠舞台，於是美國人乾脆用樂團的名字稱呼它。

theatre seating · noun · B1

in American English, the seats in a theatre that are close to the stage and on the same floor as it.

池座；正廳前排

Also in this word

group of musicians · noun · B1

a large group of musicians who play many different instruments together, usually led by a conductor.

管弦樂團

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。

orchestranoun/ˈɔː.kɪs.tɹə/

  • 1

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.

    • The orchestra plays music for the dancers to dance to in the 19th century-styled dance hall.
    • It requires quite an orchestra to get a train to start; the guard blows his horn, the stationmaster rings a large bell, and the engine whistles.
  • 2

    entertainmentlifestyletheaterA semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic theatres.

  • 3

    The area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit, immediately in front of and below the stage, sometimes (also) used by other performers.

  • 4

    A group of crickets.

    • the jackhammering racket of the city softened and an orchestra of crickets trilled in unison
    • Nightfall also awakened the neighborhood orchestra of crickets.

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。