核心畫面

You can picture peel as the thin outer layer of something and the act of getting that layer away from what is under it — your thumbnail going under an orange skin and lifting it off in strips, so the soft part inside is finally uncovered.

可以想成「一層薄薄的外皮,和把這層皮跟底下的東西分開的動作」。畫面像是拇指指甲插進橘子皮下面,一片一片把皮掀起來,裡更多收起可以想成「一層薄薄的外皮,和把這層皮跟底下的東西分開的動作」。畫面像是拇指指甲插進橘子皮下面,一片一片把皮掀起來,裡面軟軟的果肉才露出來。這個字的兩種詞性其實是同一個畫面的兩端:名詞是那層皮,動詞是讓那層皮離開。誰動手、皮是被弄下來還是自己掉下來,就分出了底下幾個用法。

原始詞典資料27 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。

Peelname

  • 1

    A surname.

    • Robert Peel, former British Prime Minister.
  • 2

    A placename:

  • 3

    A placename:

  • 4

    A placename:

  • 5

    A placename:

  • 6

    A placename:

peelverb詞源 1/piːl/

  • 1

    To remove the skin or outer covering of.

    • I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.
    • The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.
  • 2

    To remove something from the outer or top layer of.

    • I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.
    • We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose.
  • 3

    To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.

    • I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel.
  • 4

    To remove one's clothing.

    • The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.
  • 5

    To move, separate (off or away).

    • The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.

peelnoun詞源 1/piːl/

  • 1

    The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.

  • 2

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesThe action of peeling away from a formation.

  • 3

    A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.

peelnoun詞源 2/piːl/

  • 1

    obsoleteA stake.

  • 2

    obsoleteA fence made of stakes; a stockade.

  • 3

    archaicA small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

peelnoun詞源 3/piːl/

  • 1

    A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.

    • Near-synonym: pizza paddle
    • “I will hit you with this pizza peel.” “I'll hit you with this wrench.” “All right, all right, I know we want to hit each other to death, but what if we didn't?” “Not happening, Green. There's enough peel here for you and the captain.”
  • 2

    A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.

  • 3

    archaicThe blade of an oar.

peelnoun詞源 4/piːl/

  • 1

    ball-gamescurlinggamesAn equal or match; a draw.

  • 2

    ball-gamescurlinggamesA takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

peelverb詞源 4/piːl/

  • 1

    ball-gamescurlinggamesTo play a peel shot.

peelverb詞源 5/piːl/

  • 1

    To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

peelverb詞源 6/piːl/

  • 1

    archaicTo plunder; to pillage, rob.

    • But govern ill the nations under yoke, / Peeling their provinces.
    • O conſider my caſe, moſt blisfull Queen, […] Diſpell thoſe Clouds which hover 'twixt my King and his higheſt Counſell, […] that my great Law-making Court be forced to turn no more to polemicall Committees, […] but that they may come again to the old Parliamentary Rode, To the path of their Predeceſſours, to conſult of means how to ſweep away thoſe Cobwebs that hang in the Courts of Juſtice, and to make the Laws run in their right Channell; to retrench exceſſive fees, and finde remedies for the future, that the poor Client be not ſo peeled by his Lawyer, and made to ſuffer by ſuch monſtrous delays, that one may go from one Tropick to the other, and croſſe the Equinoctiall twenty times, before his ſute be done; […]

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。