核心畫面

Picture the thin tool in your hand laying a line of ink on paper — that is the pen most of this entry is about. Be warned that the entry has swept several different words together: the animal enclosure is a separate word that only looks the same, and two of the senses are just short forms of longer words.

可以想成:手裡那支細細的工具,在紙上留下一道墨水的線——大部分的意思都是這支筆。要提醒的是,其實有幾個不同的字:關牲更多收起可以想成:手裡那支細細的工具,在紙上留下一道墨水的線——大部分的意思都是這支筆。要提醒的是,其實有幾個不同的字:關牲畜的「圍欄」跟寫字的筆只是長得一樣,另外兩個意思則是別的字的縮寫,不是這支筆的引申。

From the word’s history

Pen 'writing tool' (late 13c.) is from Old French pene, Latin penna 'feather' — early pens were quills. Pen 'animal enclosure' is a separate word, Old English penn, of uncertain origin, possibly related to pinn 'pin, peg'. Pen 'prison' is a shortening of penitentiary, attested 1884.

寫字的 pen(13 世紀末)來自古法語 pene、拉丁文 penna「羽毛」——早期的筆就是羽毛管。關牲畜的 pen 是另一個字,來自古英語 penn,來源不確定,可能跟 pinn(栓、樁)有關。指監獄的 pen 則是 penitentiary 的縮寫,1884 年開始有紀錄。三者長得一樣,但走的是不同的路。

Etymonline, entries for pen n.1 / pen n.2 / pen n.3 (etymonline.com/word/pen)

From the picture

關動物的圍欄

這個意思跟寫字的筆沒有關係,只是拼法碰巧一樣;把它當成另一個字來記比較不會混淆。

animal pen · noun · A1

A small area with a fence around it, used to keep farm animals in one place.

圍欄/畜欄

從長字縮短來的俚語

這兩個意思都不是筆的引申,而是把長的字砍短:一個砍自 penitentiary,一個砍自 penalty。

prison (slang) · noun · A1

An informal American word for a prison; it is short for 'penitentiary'.

監獄(俚語)

Also in this word

writing pen · noun · A1

A thin tool you hold in your hand to write or draw with ink.

筆/原子筆

write by hand · verb · A1

To write something such as a letter, story, or song, especially by hand.

撰寫/寫下

原始詞典資料23 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。

Penname詞源 1

  • 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Penelope.

    • "Listen, Pen. We are here for the duration. You have to let her in a bit."

Penname詞源 2

  • 1

    The 68th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

pennoun詞源 1/pɛn/

  • 1

    An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

    • There are two steers in the third pen.
  • 2

    slangA penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.

    • They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
  • 3

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe bullpen.

    • Two righties are up in the pen.

penverb詞源 2/pɛn/

  • 1

    To enclose in a pen.

    • Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.

pennoun詞源 3/pɛn/

  • 1

    A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.

    • He took notes with a pen.
    • another novel from the pen of everybody's fave thriller writer.
  • 2

    A writer, or their style.

    • He has a sharp pen.
    • those learned pens
  • 3

    Marks of ink left by a pen.

    • He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
  • 4

    A light pen.

  • 5

    biologynatural-scienceszoologyThe internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

    • A pen is nothing more complex than a decalcified shell, so one mutation of the genes that controlled calcification could be all it took.
  • 6

    archaicdialectalA feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.

    • And eke the pennes, that did his pineons bynd, Were like mayne-yards, with flying canuas lynd, With which whenas him liſt the ayre to beat […]
  • 7

    A wing.

    • but feather'd soon and fledge They summed their pens, and soaring the air sublime
  • 8

    A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)

    • "I'm sure she had more than one EpiPen […]" "But she didn't have one when she got stung or she'd have used it." By all appearances, Mariah died in the woods, […] If she managed to grab the pen found under her leg from her bag or pocket, she never discharged it. But Crystal doesn't have these details. "Doesn't it make sense that she kept an extra pen in her cupboard, and one in her bag? The extra pen fell out, is all."

penverb詞源 3/pɛn/

  • 1

    To write (an article, a book, etc.).

    • Prying open the crate, you discover a carefully wrapped, handwritten copy of one of Matriarch Dilinaga's treatises. It is unlikely she penned it herself, but the flowing brushwork and intricate watercolor illustrations clearly show the hand of a master scribe.
    • His two most recent films are last year's Greyhound, a Hanks-penned World War Two thriller in which he plays a naval commander, and now News of the World, a Western set in the years immediately following the close of the US Civil War, directed by Paul Greengrass, which is premiering around the world on Netflix tomorrow.
  • 2

    To write or draw on (a surface) with a pen.

    • I penned up the walls with obscenities
    • Beside it, another wooden table with a guestbook penned with names and addresses.

pennoun詞源 4/pɛn/

  • 1

    A female swan.

pennoun詞源 5/pɛn/

  • 1

    slangball-gamesgameshobbiesPenalty.

    • England won 3-1 on pens.

pennoun詞源 6/pɛn/

  • 1

    informalcomputingengineeringmathematicsPenetration.

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。