- 1毛孔（皮膚）；氣孔（植物）
A pore is a tiny hole. On your face and body, pores are the little openings in the skin that let sweat — and oil — out. If they get blocked, you may get a . Plants have pores too: tiny openings, often on leaves, that let air and water pass. Some materials, like a sponge or certain rocks, are full of pores as well. The word is ordinary in science class and in talk about skin care. Though actually, English has another word that looks the same but is not this one: to pore over a book means to look at it slowly and carefully. That verb comes from a different history. And pore is not pour, which means to make liquid flow from a cup.
From the word’s history
From Middle English pore, from Old French pore, from Latin porus, from Ancient Greek πόρος 'passage'.
經古法文、拉丁文 porus，來自希臘文 πόρος「通道」。
組成From Latin porus, from Ancient Greek póros, “a passage” — a way through. English once had a homely name, “sweat hole,” but pore won.
同家族的字
- porousfull of tiny holes, from the same “passage” root
- porosityhow full of pores something is
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。
porenoun詞源 1/pɔː(ɹ)/
- 1
A tiny opening in the skin.
- I could sense the sweat dripping out of all my pores.
- 2
By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.
- the pores of a rock.
- Under certain conditions tangential sections indicate that the zoœcial walls and the intermural space are seemingly pierced by communication pores or connecting foramina.
poreverb詞源 2/pɔː(ɹ)/
- 1
To study meticulously; to go over again and again.
- Yet each foreign post day she watched for the arrival of letters - knew the postmark, and watched me as I read. I found her often poring over the articles of Greek intelligence in the newspaper.
- 2
To meditate or reflect in a steady way.
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。