喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the space directly above you — planes, wires, a light fitting. Two of the business uses come from things that sit up there: the running costs that hang over a company whatever it sells, and the sheet you lay on a that throws the image up onto a screen.

可以想成：你正上方的那塊空間——飛過去的飛機、拉過去的電線、頭頂那盞燈。商業和教室裡的兩個用法都跟「在上面」有關：一…更多收起可以想成：你正上方的那塊空間——飛過去的飛機、拉過去的電線、頭頂那盞燈。商業和教室裡的兩個用法都跟「在上面」有關：一個是無論做不做生意都懸在公司頭上的固定開銷，一個是放在投影機上、把畫面打到牆上的那張透明片。

From the picture

懸在公司頭上的開銷

把「一直在上面」變成比喻：房租、水電、保險不管有沒有生意都壓在那裡，是公司頭頂上跑不掉的一筆。

business overhead · noun · B1

Money a business pays regularly for things like rent, lights, and insurance, so it can keep running.

營業費用／經常開支

投影用的透明片

名字來自那台 overhead projector——光從下面穿過透明片，把畫面打到上方的螢幕上。

transparency sheet · noun · B1

A clear plastic sheet that you write or print on and show with an overhead projector.

投影片／透明片

Also in this word

above your head · r · A2

Above your head, or up in the sky.

在頭頂上／在空中

原始詞典資料18 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。

overheadadj詞源 1/ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/

  • 1

    Located above, especially over the head.

    • Place your luggage in the overhead lockers.
    • The railway consists of some 18 miles of double track electrified on the overhead principle.
  • 2

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesKicked over one's own head.

    • It was Rooney, however, who produced a moment of inspiration to score a stunning overhead kick that will live forever in the memory of United's fans and extended City's dismal sequence of only one league win in their last 27 visits to Old Trafford.

overheadnoun詞源 1/ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/

  • 1

    accountingbusinessfinanceThe expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.

  • 2

    accountingbusinessfinanceThe items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.

  • 3

    Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.

  • 4

    businessWasted money.

  • 5

    hobbieslifestylesportsA smash.

  • 6

    nauticaltransportThe ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.

  • 7

    A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.

    • There was no room left in the overheads for our luggage, our seats did not recline, and the washrooms were right behind us.
  • 8

    transportThe system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.

另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    computingengineeringmathematicsData or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.

    • Network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over the network, whereas fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within the operating system.
  • 10

    artshobbiesjugglingAn overhead throw.

  • 11

    transportA type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.

overheadadv詞源 1/ˌəʊvəˈhɛd/

  • 1

    Above one's head; in the sky.

    • birds flying overhead
    • Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
  • 2

    archaicPer head; for each individual.

    • […] the influence of the minister's week-day attentions, first in creating, and afterwards in keeping up among the people of his parish their habit of Sabbath attendance. So indispensable in towns is the connexion between these two things, that were seat-rents let down at this moment to two shillings overhead, or even annihilated, so as to throw open the whole of the church room at accessible prices to the lowest of the people, we shall greatly mistake the result if we look for a great and visible increase of attendance per saltum on the part of the parish families.

overheadprep詞源 1

  • 1

    Above.

    • Cigarette smoke was sucked out through the cracks in the glass of the glazed panes overhead the side street and the parking lot.

overheadnoun詞源 2/ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/

  • 1

    An overhead projector.

  • 2

    A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.

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。