真的被擦亮的表面
核心畫面的字面版本，也是其他用法借出去的那個原始場景。
adjective · B1
Rubbed until the surface is smooth and shiny, usually with a wax, cream, or cloth made for the job.
擦亮的
核心畫面
Picture a cloth going over the same patch of wood or leather, again and again, until the bumps are gone and the surface throws the light back at you. Two things are in that picture at once: somebody worked on it, and the roughness is no longer there. Every use of polished keeps both halves, whether the surface is a floor, a performance, or the way a person handles a room.
polished 可以想成一塊布在同一片木頭或皮革上來回擦，擦到凹凸不見了，表面開始把光反回來。這個畫面裡同時有兩件…更多收起
polished 可以想成一塊布在同一片木頭或皮革上來回擦，擦到凹凸不見了，表面開始把光反回來。這個畫面裡同時有兩件事：有人動過手，而且粗糙的地方已經沒有了。之後不管擦的是地板、是一場表演，還是一個人的應對方式，這兩半都還在。所以看到 polished，可以先問：這是被磨過很多次的哪一種表面？Two branches
磨過很多次之後的順：作品與人
把擦亮的畫面搬到看不見的表面上。一場表演、一篇文章、一個人的舉止，本來也會有粗糙的地方，練久了、改久了就不見了。
adjective · B2
Done with great skill and style, so that the work runs smoothly and nothing in it looks rough, rushed, or unfinished.
純熟精緻的
原始詞典資料3 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。
polishedadj/ˈpɑlɪʃt/
- 1
Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
- polished shoes
- But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotive sporting a lot of polished brass.
- 2
Refined, elegant.
- a polished performance
- We may be well assured, that a writer, conversant with the world, would never have ventured to expose the gods of his country to public ridicule, had they not already been the objects of secret contempt among the polished and enlightened orders of society.
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。