核心畫面

One way to hold `powdered` is to picture a small heap of fine, dry, pale dust. From that heap the word points in two directions. Either the thing itself has been turned into the dust — milk, sugar, ginger, medicine. Or the dust has been laid on the outside of something else — a face, a wig, a surface. It is the same dust each time; the only question is whether it is what the thing has become, or what the thing is wearing.

powdered 可以想成腦中有一小堆細細的乾粉。從這堆粉出發,這個字往兩個方向走。一個方向是「這樣東西本身被磨成了更多收起powdered 可以想成腦中有一小堆細細的乾粉。從這堆粉出發,這個字往兩個方向走。一個方向是「這樣東西本身被磨成了那堆粉」,像奶粉、糖粉、薑粉、藥粉:水抽掉,磨細,整樣東西就改了形狀。另一個方向是「那堆粉被撲到別的東西外面」,像撲了粉的臉、撲粉的白假髮:東西沒變,只是表面多了一層。兩邊其實是同一堆粉,差別只在它是在裡面,還是在外面。

Two branches

被做成粉的東西

這一支把粉當成「東西現在的樣子」:水抽乾、磨細,整樣東西就是那堆粉了。

adjective · B1

Made into or sold as a fine dry dust. Powdered food, drink or medicine has usually been dried first and then ground up, so you add water to it again when you want to use it.

粉狀的

表面撲上粉

這一支的粉沒有進到東西裡面,只停在表面,所以東西本身沒有改變。

adjective · B2

Covered with a thin layer of powder. It is used most about faces, skin and old-style wigs that have had face powder put on them, and about anything that looks as if fine dust has settled on it.

撲了粉的

原始詞典資料4 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。

powderedadj/ˈpaʊdɚd/

  • 1

    Which has been made into a powder.

    • powdered milk
  • 2

    Which has been covered with powder (typically referring to makeup).

    • powdered ladies
    • powdered wig
  • 3

    obsoleteSprinkled with salt; salted; corned.

    • Powdered beef, pickled meats
    • .

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。