核心畫面

Picture a tiny hard ball in your palm, swallowed whole with water — small, but you have to get it down. Two things travel out from there: the little ball itself (which is why one famous pill needs no other name, and why something hard to accept is 'a pill' too), and the shape (the tiny balls that form on an old sweater).

可以想成:手心裡一顆小小硬硬的球,配水整顆吞下去——東西很小,但你非把它嚥下去不可。從這裡分出兩條線:一條是那顆藥本更多收起可以想成:手心裡一顆小小硬硬的球,配水整顆吞下去——東西很小,但你非把它嚥下去不可。從這裡分出兩條線:一條是那顆藥本身(所以有一種藥常見到不必說名字,也所以難以下嚥的事情被說成一顆藥丸),另一條是那個形狀(舊毛衣上冒出來的一顆顆小球)。

From the picture

難以下嚥的東西

借的是吃藥的感覺:東西不大,但苦、但你得吞。壞消息和惹人厭的人,都是這種「不得不吞下去」的存在。

sugar the pill · noun · B1

To do something that makes bad news or a hard job easier for someone to accept.

把苦藥包糖衣

衣服上的小球

這一支借的不是藥,而是形狀:布料磨久了纖維糾在一起,冒出一顆顆小球,長得就像迷你藥丸。

form little fabric balls · verb · B1

If clothing pills, little soft balls form on its surface after wear or washing.

起毛球

Also in this word

medicine tablet · noun · A2

A small piece of medicine, round or flat, that you swallow whole.

藥丸;藥片

birth control pill · noun · B1

A special medicine some women take every day so they do not have a baby.

口服避孕藥

原始詞典資料25 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。

Pillname詞源 1

  • 1

    A village in Pill and Easton-in-Gordano parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST5275).

Pillname詞源 2

  • 1

    A municipality of Tyrol, Austria.

Pillname詞源 3

  • 1

    A surname.

pillnoun詞源 1/pɪl/

  • 1

    A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

    • Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken.
  • 2

    A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

  • 3

    informalContraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.

    • Jane went on the pill when she left for college.
    • She got pregnant one month after going off the pill.
  • 4

    Something offensive, unpleasant or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

    • "It's a sad unpalatable truth," said Mr. Pembroke, thinking that the despondency might be personal, "but one must accept it. My sister and Gerald, I am thankful to say, have accepted it, so naturally it has been a little pill."
  • 5

    slangA contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.

    • You see, he's egging Phyllis on to marry Wilbert Cream. [...] And when a man like that eggs, something has to give, especially when the girl's a pill like Phyllis, who always does what Daddy tells her.
    • Instead, I saw a woman in her mid-fifties, who was a real pill; while all the others had managed a decent “So pleased,” or even a plain “Hello,” Ginger just inclined her head, as if she was doing a Queen Mary imitation.
  • 6

    slangA comical or entertaining person.

  • 7

    businessmanufacturingtextilesA small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibers formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing.

    • One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills,” hung halfway to the floor.
  • 8

    slangball-gamesbaseballgamesA baseball.

    • "Strike two!" bawled the umpire. I threw the pill back to Tom with a heart which drummed above the noise of the rooters along the side lines.
    • Mr. Fisher contributed to the Sox effort when he threw the pill past second baseman Rath after Felsch hit him a comebacker.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangengineeringfirearmsgovernmentA bullet (projectile).

  • 10

    computingengineeringgraphical-user-interfaceA rounded rectangle containing a brief text caption indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.

pillverb詞源 1/pɪl/

  • 1

    businessmanufacturingtextilesOf a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.

    • This sweater is already pilled: it fuzzed after the very first wash.
    • During processing, inferior short fibers (which can cause pilling and itching) are removed to enhance the natural softness of the yarn and to improve its wash-and-wear performance.
  • 2

    To form into the shape of a pill.

    • Pilling is a skill rarely used by modern pharmacists.
  • 3

    To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.

    • She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.
    • Pilling the cat is such a nightmare.
  • 4

    To take recreational drugs in pill form.

    • Nev offered it to Layla who replied, "Thanks, but at the moment I'm pilling and it will bring me down."
  • 5

    To persuade or convince someone of something.

  • 6

    datedslangTo blackball (a potential club member).

    • “I pilled him because he is a liar,” said Thackeray. “He calls himself 'ill' when he isn't.”

pillverb詞源 2/pɪl/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.

  • 2

    To peel; to make by removing the skin.

    • [Jacob] pilled white streaks[…]in the rods.
  • 3

    To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

  • 4

    obsoleteTo pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

    • So syr Lucan departed for he was greuously wounded in many places And so as he yede he sawe and herkened by the mone lyght how that pyllars and robbers were comen in to the felde To pylle and robbe many a ful noble knyghte of brochys and bedys of many a good rynge & of many a ryche Iewel / and who that were not deed al oute
    • The Galles and thoſe pilling Briggandines, That yeerely ſaile to the Uenetian goulfe, And houer in the ſtraightes for Chriſtians wracke, Shall lie at anchor in the Iſle Aſant.

pillnoun詞源 2/pɪl/

  • 1

    obsoleteThe peel or skin.

    • Some be covered with crusts or hard pills, as the locust
    • To make Sallet of Lemon pill, or green Citron. You must have your Lemon Pill preserved very green, Rasp it into a Dish, and raise it up lightly with a Fork […]

pillnoun詞源 3/pɪl/

  • 1

    regionalAn inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay. Pill can occur in the name of such an inlet.

    • Portishead, lying west-north-west of Bristol, on the Severn, had a small port from medieval times on its pill, or inlet, and began to develop as a seaside resort early in the nineteenth century, when it was served by steam packets from Bristol.
    • For fifty years, then, five times a week, the packet steamers came and went along that superb stretch of blue water, the trains rattled down the wooded valley of the pill, and their passengers rested and refreshed themselves in thriving New Milford, where flunkeys bowed before the best hotel. Those are the days which Neyland people, especially the older ones, recall with pride.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。