喜樂美語

核心畫面

At the core of 'pot' is a round, deep, open container — the cooking pot on the stove. From that one shape grow all the other vessels (, , jam jar, clay pot), and then the idea of a pot as a place where things are gathered and held: a pool of money everyone chips in. A separate branch borrows the word for cannabis, unrelated to the container.

「pot」的核心可以想成一個圓圓、深深、開口的容器——爐子上那口鍋。從這個形狀長出其他各種容器（花盆、茶壺、果醬罐、…更多收起「pot」的核心可以想成一個圓圓、深深、開口的容器——爐子上那口鍋。從這個形狀長出其他各種容器（花盆、茶壺、果醬罐、陶罐），再延伸出「把東西集中盛在一處」的概念：大家湊在一起的那筆錢。另有一條俚語支線借這個字指大麻，與容器無關。

原始詞典資料44 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。

potnoun詞源 1/pɒt/

  • 1

    A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).

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    A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).

    • Hunting in the year 1000 was still a democratic pastime. Every free-born Anglo-Saxon had the right to enter the forest and bring home game for the pot.
  • 3

    Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

  • 4

    Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

  • 5

    Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

    • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
  • 6

    Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

    • Shit or get off the pot.
    • “Clinton,” Gail cried from outside, “are you going to sit on the pot all day?”
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    Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

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    Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

另外 14 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

  • 10

    Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

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    obsoleteVarious similar open-topped vessels, particularly

    • "So kindly keep the vainglorious enumeration of your pots for the benefit of those village idiots who compose your particular set of boozing companions."
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    Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

    • There are plenty of pubs and bars all over Australia (serving beer in schooners – 425ml or middies/pots ~285ml), and if you don′t fancy those you can drink in wine bars, pleasant beer gardens, or with friends at home.
  • 13

    Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.

    • Rowten Pot
  • 14

    A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.

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    slangRuin or deterioration.

    • After his arrest, his prospects went to pot.
  • 16

    historicalAny of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.

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    historicalAn iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.

    • The pot is an iron hat with broad brims: there are many under the denomination in the Tower, said to have been taken from the French...
  • 18

    rail-transportrailwaystransportA pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.

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    card-gamesgamblinggamesThe money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.

    • No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot.
  • 20

    An allocation of money for a particular purpose.

    • a pension pot
    • a savings pot
  • 21

    slanghobbieshorse-racinghorseracingA favorite: a heavily-backed horse.

  • 22

    A plaster cast.

potverb詞源 1/pɒt/

  • 1

    To put (something) into a pot.

    • to pot a plant
  • 2

    To preserve by bottling or canning.

    • potted meat
  • 3

    businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityTo package a circuit by encasing it in resin.

  • 4

    ball-gamesbilliardsgamesTo cause a ball to fall into a pocket.

  • 5

    ball-gamesbilliardsgamesTo be capable of being potted.

    • The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.
  • 6

    slangTo shoot with a firearm.

    • When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.
    • Luckily Jenkins — our best shot — was on guard and spotted him and... er... potted him, as I said. Buried him in a shallow grave below stones, so it's unlikely he will be found.
  • 7

    datedslangTo take a potshot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.

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    To secure; gain; win; bag.

另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To send someone to jail, expeditiously.

  • 10

    obsoletedialectalTo tipple; to drink.

    • It is less labour to plough than to pot it.
  • 11

    To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.

    • Too much temper likewise prevents the melasses from separating from the sugar when it is potted or put into the hogshead
  • 12

    To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.

    • Ideally the best Ideally the best way of tackling the problem of toilet training, is to 'pot' your child at set intervals when he is at home, even though he may no longer be a baby, thus establishing a regular routine instead of one at odd intervals.
    • If you leave out this “catching" stage altogether and start proper toilet training at, say, eighteen months you will only have to pot your baby about 2000 times for the same effect.
  • 13

    To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.

  • 14

    To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.

    • Most Fishneck watermen oystered in winter, using the same small skiffs from which they potted crabs in summer.
    • Potting Eels: Except for the mature neshaws, Vineyard eels were potted (caught by pots) in September and October. […] When eeling was good, each pot would catch 25 to 100 pounds of neshaws; some pots would be filled to capacity.
  • 15

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo score (a drop goal).

    • With five minutes to go, Trevathan potted his second goal, and finally it was the fullback Taylor who scored.
    • He played for the Oxford Australians against their Cambridge counterparts, and even potted a few goals at picnic Rugby matches.

potnoun詞源 2/pɒt/

  • 1

    slangMarijuana.

    • The way we figure it, ma'am, if everybody walked around naked, smoked pot and listened to rock'n'roll, there wouldn't be any more wars!

potnoun詞源 3/pɒt/

  • 1

    slangbusinesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.

potverb詞源 3/pɒt/

  • 1

    slangbroadcastingmediaTo fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.

    • While the announcer is talking, the select switch on the mixing board for the microphone input is selected, and the microphone is “potted up.”

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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。