喜樂美語
  1. 1猛撲、撲上去（也可說抓住機會、揪出錯誤）

    To pounce is to wait, then suddenly spring forward and land on someone or something — the way a cat waits by a hole and then jumps on a mouse. The move is fast, from stillness. Animals do it; people do it when they move in that same spirit, as when a player pounces on a loose ball. Though actually, a lot of everyday pounce is not a body jumping at all. If you pounce on a mistake, you catch it at once and make a thing of it. If you pounce on a chance, you grab it before it goes. That stretch is very common, and it can sound sharp, even , when a person pounces on someone else's error. There is a noun too: a sudden pounce. English almost always wants on after the verb: pounce on the mouse, pounce on a mistake.

組成A different word also spelled pounce — a fine powder once used on paper — comes from French ponce, from Latin pumex, and is an old cousin of pumice. I will not pin this jumping-and-attacking pounce to that story; lookalikes fool even careful books. Where the cat-jump word comes from is not a tale I will pretend is settled.

原始詞典資料13 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。

pouncenoun詞源 1/paʊns/

  • 1

    historicalA type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.

    • At the Thorn, or at a meagre kitchen table, or even on the carpenter’s workbench, he spreads open the portfolio, lights a candle stub, slices a fresh quill, and arranges pounce pot and ink well.
  • 2

    historicalCharcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.

pounceverb詞源 1/paʊns/

  • 1

    To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.

    • to pounce paper, or a pattern

pouncenoun詞源 2/paʊns/

  • 1

    A sudden leaping attack.

    • Again the cat jolted the bed with a pounce.
  • 2

    archaicThe claw or talon of a bird of prey.

    • March 22 1775, Edmund Burke, speech in the House of Commons on conciliation with America You have , indeed , winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea
    • And from her griping pounce the greedy prey doth quarry
  • 3

    A punch or stamp.

    • a pounce to print money with
  • 4

    Cloth worked in eyelet holes.

    • one spendeth his patrimony upon pounces and cuts
  • 5

    businessminingSynonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).

pounceverb詞源 2/paʊns/

  • 1

    To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something.

    • The kitten pounced at the ball I threw to it.
    • She pounced on the young man, because she loved him and wanted him for herself.
  • 2

    To attack suddenly by leaping.

    • I was awakened from a dead sleep by my child pouncing on top of me from out of nowhere.
    • The only thing you can do with virgins like that is pounce!
  • 3

    To eagerly seize an opportunity.

    • I pounced on the chance to get promoted.
    • While he was out of town on vacation, I pounced, leaking the photos.
  • 4

    To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.

    • Stooped from his highest pitch to pounce a wren.
    • Now pounce him lightly, / And as he roars and rages, let's go deeper.
  • 5

    To stamp holes in; to perforate.

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