袋子裡的錢
拿容器代替裡面的東西：講「錢包」其實是在講錢。從這裡再往下分，就有了給贏家的那一份錢，以及誰有權打開這個袋子。
available funds · noun · A2
The amount of money a person, group, or government has to spend.
財力
核心畫面
A small soft bag for money, closed by pulling a string so the mouth gathers shut. Two things come out of that picture: what is inside (so the word can stand for the money you have to spend), and the closing itself (so pulling your lips into a tight little circle is to purse them).
可以想成：一個裝錢的小軟袋，靠一條繩子一拉，袋口就皺起來收緊。這個畫面往兩邊長：一邊是「裡面的東西」——所以 pur…更多收起
可以想成：一個裝錢的小軟袋，靠一條繩子一拉，袋口就皺起來收緊。這個畫面往兩邊長：一邊是「裡面的東西」——所以 purse 也能代表一個人或一個國家能花的錢；另一邊是「收緊的動作」——所以把嘴唇抿成一個小圈，英文也用同一個字。至於這個袋子到底長什麼樣，英式和美式的講法差很多，得分開記。From the word’s history
Etymonline notes the verb sense 'draw together and wrinkle' appears around 1600, from drawing together the strings of a money bag — which is why 'purse your lips' means to pull them into a tight little circle.
根據 Etymonline，purse 當動詞的「收攏、皺起」用法約在 1600 年前後出現，來自「把錢袋的繩子拉緊」這個動作；這正是 purse your lips（把嘴唇抿成小圈）的由來，跟錢袋是同一個畫面。
Etymonline, https://www.etymonline.com/word/purse
From the picture
把嘴抿緊
來自拉緊袋口那條繩子的動作：嘴唇收攏成一個小圈，看起來就跟被抽緊的錢袋口一樣。
purse your lips · verb · A2
To draw your lips into a small tight circle, often showing doubt or disapproval.
抿嘴
Also in this word
purse (wallet) · noun · A2
A small bag, used especially by women, for holding paper money, coins, and cards.
錢包
coin purse · noun · A2
A small bag used to hold coins, used especially by women. (American English)
零錢包
handbag (US: purse) · noun · A2
A bag in which a woman carries her money and personal things. (American English; British: handbag)
手提包
原始詞典資料9 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。
Pursename/pɜːs/
- 1
A surname from Middle English.
pursenoun/pɜːs/
- 1
A small bag for carrying money.
- And then muſt many a man occupie as farre as his purſe would reache, and ſtretche out his legges accordynge to the length of his couerlet.
- 2
A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
- Master leathercrafter does handcrafted wallets, belts, purses, handbags etc., supporting self and helpers. Good enough to carve fantst art and portraits into leather.
- 3
A quantity of money given for a particular purpose.
- It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns.
- 4
historicalA specific sum of money in certain countries: formerly 500 piastres in Turkey or 50 tomans in Persia.
purseverb/pɜːs/
- 1
To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude.
- 1901, Matilde Serao, The Land of Cockayne, translator not credited, London: Heinemann, Chapter IV, p. 72, https://archive.org/details/landofcockayne00seraiala The serving Sister pursed up her lips to remind him of the cloistral rule, almost as if she wanted to prevent any conversation between him and the nun.
- Anton Ivanovich pursed up his lower lip so that his grey moustache pressed against the tip of his red pitted nose, took in all the officials with his rounded eyes, and after an unavoidable pause emitted a fat unctuous laugh.
- 2
To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit.
- […] thou […] didst contract and purse thy brow together, / As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain / Some horrible conceit: […]
- Upon hearing Billy's version, the sage Dansker seemed to divine more than he was told; and after a little meditation during which his wrinkles were pursed as into a point, quite effacing for the time that quizzing expression his face sometimes wore, "Didn't I say so, Baby Budd?"
- 3
To put into a purse.
- And I will go and purse the ducats straight,
- 4
obsoleterareTo steal purses; to rob.
- Why I'll purse; if that raise me not, I'll bet at bowling alleys, or man whores: I would fain live by others.
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。