核心畫面
Picture squeezing a little bit of skin tightly between your finger and thumb — a small, sharp, tight little press. That's the seed of the whole word. From the action come: stealing (a quick little grab between the fingers), shoes that press too tight, the tiny amount of salt you can hold between finger and thumb, and the squeezed-tight, no-room feeling of being short of money or short on options.
可以想成：把一小塊皮膚用拇指和食指緊緊一掐——又小、又尖、又緊的一下擠壓。這就是整個字的種子。從這個動作長出：偷東西…更多收起
可以想成：把一小塊皮膚用拇指和食指緊緊一掐——又小、又尖、又緊的一下擠壓。這就是整個字的種子。從這個動作長出：偷東西（手指間迅速一抓）、鞋子太緊夾腳、用兩指能捏起的一小撮鹽，還有「被掐得緊緊、沒有餘地」那種缺錢或沒選擇的感覺。原始詞典資料24 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。
pinchverb/pɪnt͡ʃ/
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To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- The children were scolded for pinching each other.
- This shoe pinches my foot.
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To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- He took the plate in his hand, holding it between thumb and forefinger at one corner, letting it hang down. With the other hand he pinched it at the opposite corner, pressing thumb and forefinger together tightly.
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To squeeze between two objects.
- Since the resistance of the channel is inversely proportional to its width, the most resistive region is the one pinched between the gates where they come closest to each other.
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Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen.
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slangTo steal, usually something inconsequential.
- Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
- “Hey, blokes,” yelled Dean or perhaps Serge, “let's pinch a boat.”
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slangTo arrest or capture.
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agriculturebusinesshorticultureTo cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
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nauticaltransportTo sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
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hobbieshuntinglifestyleTo take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
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obsoleteTo be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
- There was with him none other fare, But for to pinche and for to spare
- 1788, Benjamin Franklin (attributed), Paper the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare
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To seize; to grip; to bite.
- He [the hound] pinch'd and pull'd her down.
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To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- to be pinched for money
- Camillo was his helpe in this, his Pandar: There is a Plot against my Life, my Crowne; All's true that is mistrusted: that false Villaine, Whom I employ'd, was pre-employ'd by him: He ha's discouer'd my Designe, and I Remaine a pinch'd Thing;
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To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
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obsoleteTo complain or find fault.
- Therefore who so them accuse Of any double entencion, To speake, rowne, other to muse, To pinch at their condicion, All is but false collusion, I dare rightwell the sothe express, They have no better protection,
pinchnoun/pɪnt͡ʃ/
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The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
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A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.
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A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
- Mix about four cups of white flour with a pinch of salt.
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An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- And wel his merits ſhew him to be made His Fortunes maiſter, and the king of men. That could perſwade at ſuch a ſodaine pinch, With reaſons of his valour and his life, A thouſand ſworne and ouer-matching foes:
- It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch, and it sure was a pinch.
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A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
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An organic herbal smoke additive.
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natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
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The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- It looked like an hourglass, but all those little glittering shapes tumbling through the pinch were seconds.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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slangAn arrest.
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A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- Down several steep pinches the lubra went sprawling[.]
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。