喜樂美語

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You can picture the wooden stick in your hand with a thin dark line running down the middle of it: press it to paper and the line comes out onto the page. Both uses of the word sit on that one object — first the thing itself, then the act of putting marks down with it.

可以想成手上那支木頭做的細棒，中間藏著一條黑色（或彩色）的細芯：往紙上一壓，那條線就跑到紙上了。這個字的兩個用法都掛…更多收起可以想成手上那支木頭做的細棒，中間藏著一條黑色（或彩色）的細芯：往紙上一壓，那條線就跑到紙上了。這個字的兩個用法都掛在同一樣東西上——先是那個物件本身，接著是拿它留下痕跡這件事。

原始詞典資料9 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。

pencilnoun/ˈpɛnsəl/

  • 1

    A writing utensil with a graphite (commonly referred to as lead) shaft, usually blended with clay, clad in wood, and sharpened to a taper.

  • 2

    engineeringnatural-sciencesopticsAn aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.

    • [T]hey all ran off into the night to the miser’s ruined castle, with its solitary pencil of light in its high turret chamber[.]
  • 3

    geometrymathematicssciencesA family of geometric objects with a common property, such as the set of lines that pass through a given point in a projective plane.

    • When, by the pencil becoming oblique to the surface, the vergency produced on the pencil becomes changed, the primary and secondary focal points, V and H, separate […]
    • A drillable robot is capable of placing its end link in any orientation in the pencil of planes containing its first link.
  • 4

    historicalA paintbrush.

    • But living art may not least part expresse, / Nor life-resembling pencill it can paynt[…].
    • why is it not lawfull for every man to pourtray himself with his pen, as it was for him to doe it with a pensell?
  • 5

    obsoleteraremedicinesciencesA small medicated bougie.

  • 6

    obsoletebiologynatural-scienceszoologyA small, thin tuft of hairs or feathers.

    • It is almost entirely of a slatey colour, with yellow bill and feet, but the feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts each terminate in a rigid, glossy pencil or tuft of a vivid crimson.

pencilverb/ˈpɛnsəl/

  • 1

    To write (something) using a pencil.

    • I penciled (BrE: pencilled) a brief reminder in my notebook.
    • She had hardly got back when she encountered a piece by Robert Trewe in the new number of her favourite magazine, which must have been written almost immediately before her visit to Solentsea, for it contained the very couplet she had seen pencilled on the wallpaper by the bed, and Mrs. Hooper had declared to be recent.
  • 2

    To mark with, or as if with, a pencil.

    • It pencilled each flower with rich and variegated hues, and threw over its exuberant foliage a vesture of emerald green.

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。