核心畫面
A short pole ending in a wide flat blade — the thing you grip to push a canoe through water. From that one flat-bladed tool the word spreads two ways: outward to other flat-bladed things (a table-tennis bat, a kitchen stirrer) and the actions done with them, and to the gentle splashing of feet or hands in shallow water.
可以想成一根短桿、末端是一片寬寬扁扁的板子——就是你握著把獨木舟往前推的那支槳。整個字從這支「扁板工具」往兩邊散開：…更多收起
可以想成一根短桿、末端是一片寬寬扁扁的板子——就是你握著把獨木舟往前推的那支槳。整個字從這支「扁板工具」往兩邊散開：一邊是其他扁板狀的東西（桌球拍、攪拌棒）和用它們做的動作，另一邊則是腳或手在淺水裡輕輕拍水、戲水。原始詞典資料29 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。
Paddlename
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A surname.
paddlenoun詞源 1/ˈpædl̩/
- 1
A two-handed implement consisting of a shaft with one or two blades attached to the end(s) used to propel a canoe, kayak or a small boat. A paddle is unattached to the boat and freely operated with the hands, compared with an oar which is attached to the boat at a pivot point.
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A two-handed implement consisting of a shaft with one or two blades attached to the end(s) used to propel a canoe, kayak or a small boat. A paddle is unattached to the boat and freely operated with the hands, compared with an oar which is attached to the boat at a pivot point.
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The use of a paddle to propel a boat; a session of paddling.
- We had a nice paddle this morning.
- I managed one mighty paddle of 38km up the coast to Wicklow before the next bloody storm was due to hit.
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A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
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A paddlewheel.
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A blade of a waterwheel.
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datedvideo-gamesA game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
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A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
另外 10 個記錄的用法
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A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
- 10
A broad, flat spanking implement.
- The paddle practically ousted the British cane for spankings in the independent US.
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A broad, flat device used in striking the ball, analogous to a racket in tennis.
- (UK)
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A flat board with a number of holes or indentations, used to carry small alcoholic drinks such as shots.
- And it really is a paddle, too, with a blade big enough to hold several sampling glasses of different beers (known for some reason as a 'flight') for customers to try. Beer paddles have become very popular in American craft beer bars: […]
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A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
- A sea turtle's paddles make it swim almost as fast as land tortoises are slow.
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In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
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A handheld electrode used for defibrillation or cardioversion.
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A flipper in a pinball machine.
- 17
slangA person's hand.
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medicinesciencesA flap of attached skin that has been cut away from a wound.
- A large ( 13 x 25 cm ) paddle of skin was used to cover a large wound following a temporal bone resection.
- About 10% of perforators to the skin paddle of the flap are septocutaneous blood vessels that travel though the intermuscular septum that separates the rectus femoris muscle from the vastus lateralis muscle.
paddleverb詞源 1/ˈpædl̩/
- 1
To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
- as the Men were Paddling for their Lives
- while paddling ducks the standing lake desire
- 2
To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
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To spank with a paddle.
- Do you think we'll get paddled? They can't paddle me! I'm a girl!!
- 4
To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
- to be paddling palms and pinching fingers.
- 5
To tread upon; to trample.
paddleverb詞源 2/ˈpædl̩/
- 1
To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
- 2
To dog paddle in water.
- 3
To toddle.
- […] little feet paddling round and about a man's bed and following wherever he went.
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archaicTo toy or caress using hands or fingers.
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。