核心畫面
Picture someone with a brush and paint. English does not build the difference into the word — the artist at the canvas and the worker at the wall are both simply 'the one who paints'. Only the sentence around it tells you which room you are standing in.
可以想成：一個手上拿著刷子和顏料的人。英文沒有把差別做進字裡——畫布前的藝術家和牆邊的師傅，都只是「上漆／上色的那個…更多收起
可以想成：一個手上拿著刷子和顏料的人。英文沒有把差別做進字裡——畫布前的藝術家和牆邊的師傅，都只是「上漆／上色的那個人」。中文分成「畫家」和「油漆工」兩個詞，英文則要靠句子周圍的線索判斷你站在美術館還是工地。原始詞典資料7 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。
Paintername
- 1
A surname transferred from the common noun.
- 2
A town in Accomack County, Virginia.
painternoun詞源 1/ˈpeɪntə/
- 1
An artist who paints pictures.
- 2
A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
painternoun詞源 2/ˈpeɪntə/
- 1
obsoleteA chain or rope used to attach the shank of an anchor to the side of a ship when not in use.
- 2
nauticaltransportA rope that is attached to the bow of a dinghy, or other small boat, and used for tying up or towing.
- "Shove that [fat, wicker luncheon-basket] under your feet," he observed to the Mole, as he passed it down into the boat. Then he untied the painter and took the sculls again.
- The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
painternoun詞源 3/ˈpeɪntə/
- 1
A mountain lion.
- I have fou't most of the creatur's of the forest, such as bears, wolves, painters and catamounts, but this is the beginning with the red-skins.
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。