Picture one hand resting on something and moving slowly back and forth. It never presses and it never leaves; it just keeps going, and whatever is under it settles. That hand is the whole word. What changes from sense to sense is who or what is under it, and what the touching is for.
可以想成一隻手貼著什麼東西，慢慢地來回移動。它不用力，也不離開，就是一直那樣動著，底下的那個對象就安定下來了。這隻手就是這個字的全部。每個意思的差別，只在於手底下的是誰、以及為什麼要這樣摸。
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
pettingnoun/ˈpɛtɪŋ/
- 1
The act of stroking or gently patting an animal.
- 2
lifestylesexsexualityThe act of kissing, stroking, etc., a person in a sexual manner.
- 3
The act of indulging or treating as a favourite.
- 'Come, Jo, don't be thorny. After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting, and ought to get it.'
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。