核心畫面
You can picture 'put' as one simple act of the hands: take something and set it down in a place. Everything else 'put' does is this same act, just aimed at things you can't literally hold — you set a person into a situation, set words onto a page, set an idea into action, set a plan into motion. The 'place' stops being a physical spot and becomes a state, a piece of paper, a use, a level of importance — but it's always 'take X and set it there'.
可以想成「put」就是雙手最簡單的一個動作：拿起一個東西，把它放到某個位置。put 後面所有其他用法都是這同一個動作…更多收起
可以想成「put」就是雙手最簡單的一個動作：拿起一個東西，把它放到某個位置。put 後面所有其他用法都是這同一個動作，只是放的對象變成你抓不住的東西——把一個人放進某個處境、把字放到紙上、把點子放進行動、把計畫放上軌道。那個「位置」不再是實體的某一格，而變成一種狀態、一張紙、一種用途、一個重要性的高低——但骨子裡始終是「拿起 X，把它擺到那裡」。原始詞典資料22 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。
putverb詞源 1/pʊt/
- 1
To physically place (sth or sb swh).
- She put her books on the table.
- The police put him in a cell.
- 2
To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
- The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.
- I put £100 on the winning horse.
- 3
To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
- Theſe Verſes Originally Greek, were put in Latin,
- Put your house in order!
- 4
To express (something in a certain manner).
- When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
- To put it bluntly, he's an idiot.
- 5
To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- I put it to you, Sir, that you are a thief and a liar.
- to put a question; to put a case
- 6
To set as a calculation or estimate.
- They have put the cost of repairs at around £10 million.
- 7
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- to put to sea
- His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
- 8
businessfinanceTo sell (assets) under the terms of a put option.
- He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
- 9
athleticshobbieslifestyleTo throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.)
- He put the shot out beyond the 20-metre mark.
- 10
To play a card or a hand in the game called “put”.
- 11
obsoleteTo lay down; to give up; to surrender.
- No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
- 12
obsoleteTo incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
- These wretches put us upon all mischief.
- Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge
- 13
businessminingTo convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
putnoun詞源 1/pʊt/
- 1
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
- the put of a ball
- The Stag's was a Forc'd put, and a Chance rather than a Choice.
- 2
An old card game.
- Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put.
putnoun詞源 2/pʌt/
- 1
obsoleteA fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
- Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign, And of lost hospitality complain.
- The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.
putnoun詞源 3
- 1
obsoleteA prostitute.
- And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan.
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 Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。