喜樂美語

核心畫面

Racing can be pictured as two or more things setting off at the same moment, where the only question that matters is who gets there first. It does not matter what they are — runners, horses, bikes, boats, even small flying machines. Once speed is the point, the word fits, and everything else in the entry is either that activity or something built to take part in it.

racing 可以想成幾個東西同時出發，而唯一要緊的問題是「誰先到」。是人、是馬、是車、是船，甚至是小飛行器，都不影…更多收起racing 可以想成幾個東西同時出發，而唯一要緊的問題是「誰先到」。是人、是馬、是車、是船，甚至是小飛行器，都不影響這個畫面。只要重點變成「比快」，這個字就成立。字典裡其他的意思，不是指這項活動本身，就是指為了參加這項活動而做出來的東西。

From the word’s history

The supplied Wiktionary entry analyses the word on the surface as race + -ing: the -ing form of the verb race, used as the name of the activity.

來源的 Wiktionary 把這個字拆成 race + -ing，也就是動詞 race 的 -ing 形式。-ing 把一場一場的比賽收成一項活動的名字，所以才會有 motor racing、horse racing 這樣的組合。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract 3f6f69a190036ae4), entry 'racing': 'By surface analysis, race + -ing.'

Two branches

比快這項運動

這一組直接就是核心畫面：把「比誰先到」當成一項活動來講，差別只在有沒有說清楚是誰在比。

noun · B1

The sport of competing to be the fastest — on foot, on a bike, in a car or a boat, or with animals. The word names the activity as a whole, not one single race.

競速運動；賽事

為比賽而生的東西

同一個畫面往回看一步：不是比賽本身，而是為了走進那個畫面而做出來、養出來的東西。

adjective · B2

Made, built, or bred to go very fast and to be used in races.

競賽用的；為比賽而生的

原始詞典資料2 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。

racingnoun/ˈɹeɪsɪŋ/

  • 1

    The sport of competing in races.

    • Chariot racings are probably, however, those in which the horse first distinguished himself as a courser, and we believe our earliest notices on the subject point to those of Persia, which were practised at the sacrifices made to the sun […]
    • The war years have not greatly altered running conditions on the East Coast route north of Edinburgh. It was never a racing ground, and the heavier loads and the possibility of indifferent coal have been only partially balanced by the increases in running times of the principal trains.

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。