喜樂美語

這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 a rank, row of people · rank, foul-smelling

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rank

n, v

核心畫面

You can picture soldiers lined up side by side in a straight row — that row is a 'rank'. From the simple image of a row, two ideas grow: where you stand in the line (your position, your level — your rank in the army or in society), and the act of putting people or things in order (ranking them, placing them along a line from best to worst). So 'rank' is both the line and your place in it.

可以想成士兵們肩並肩站成一條直排——那一排就是 rank。從「一排」這個簡單畫面長出兩個想法:你站在排裡的哪個位置(…更多收起可以想成士兵們肩並肩站成一條直排——那一排就是 rank。從「一排」這個簡單畫面長出兩個想法:你站在排裡的哪個位置(你的位階、等級——軍中或社會裡的 rank),以及把人或物排出順序這個動作(替他們排名、沿著一條由好到壞的線安排位置)。所以 rank 既是那條排,也是你在排裡的位置。

A second word, same spelling

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rank

a

核心畫面

This is a different word that happens to share the spelling 'rank'. You can hold the picture of plants left wild — growing too , spreading everywhere, untended — and giving off a strong, rotten smell. From that overgrown, foul image come both the 'strong unpleasant smell' sense and the 'complete and total (bad)' — as in a smell or a badness so strong it's overpowering.

這是另一個剛好拼成 rank 的字。可以想成一片沒人管的野生植物——長得太密、到處亂竄、無人修剪——還散發出一股濃濃…更多收起這是另一個剛好拼成 rank 的字。可以想成一片沒人管的野生植物——長得太密、到處亂竄、無人修剪——還散發出一股濃濃的腐臭。從這個「瘋長又難聞」的畫面,既長出「強烈難聞的氣味」這個意思,也長出「十足、徹底(壞到底)」這個加強語氣——指那種濃到、壞到蓋過一切的程度。

原始詞典資料28 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。

Rankname

  • 1

    A surname.

rankadj詞源 1/ˈɹæŋk/

  • 1

    obsoleteStrong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

    • rank grass
    • rank weeds
  • 2

    obsoleteStrong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

    • rank land
    • fow Sprat or Fullum Barley, which is the best for rank Land, because it doth not run ſo much to Straw
  • 3

    obsoleteStrong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

    • The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver—over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple […]
  • 4

    obsoleteStrong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

  • 5

    obsoleteinformalStrong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

  • 6

    obsoletehobbieshorse-racinghorseracingStrong; powerful; capable of acting or being used with great effect; energetic; vigorous; headstrong.

    • If Safford happens to be driving a "rank" horse, one that insists on getting away fast, he goes along with the rest, […]
  • 7

    Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.

    • Your gym clothes are rank, bro – when'd you last wash 'em?
    • Divers sea fowls taste rank of the fish on which they ordinarily feed.
  • 8

    complete, unmitigated, utter.

    • rank treason
    • rank nonsense
另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoletelustful; lascivious

    • the ewes being rank, In end of autumn turned to the rams

rankadv詞源 1/ˈɹæŋk/

  • 1

    obsoleteQuickly, eagerly, impetuously.

    • The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke, / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare […].
    • That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.

ranknoun詞源 2/ˈɹæŋk/

  • 1

    A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.

    • The front rank kneeled to reload while the second rank fired over their heads.
    • The Musketeers being on both flancks, firſt firing let the Ranck ſtand, and fire every Ranck, paſſing through before his leader[…]
  • 2

    board-gameschessgamesOne of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).

  • 3

    card-gamesgamesThe value of a playing card.

    • The ranks are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace.
  • 4

    entertainmentlifestylemusicIn a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.

  • 5

    One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.

    • Based on your test scores, you have a rank of 23.
    • The fancy hotel was of the first rank.
  • 6

    The level of one's position in a class-based society.

  • 7

    A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.

    • a membership drawn from the ranks of wealthy European businessmen
    • Earlier this month police in Norfolk were called after five hives thought to contain around 60,000 bees and £600 worth of honey were taken. [...] Suspicions among beekeepers that the culprits come from their own ranks were underlined by the fact that a bee smoker was left at the scene by someone who presumably knew that it could be used to calm the insects before taking them.
  • 8

    A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.

    • Private First Class (PFC) is the second-lowest rank in the Marines.
    • He rose up through the ranks of the company, from mailroom clerk to CEO.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyA level in a scientific taxonomy system.

    • Phylum is the taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
  • 10

    mathematicssciencesThe dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.

  • 11

    linear-algebramathematicssciencesThe maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.

  • 12

    algebramathematicssciencesThe maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).

  • 13

    mathematicssciencesThe size of any basis of a given matroid.

rankverb詞源 2/ˈɹæŋk/

  • 1

    To place abreast or in a line.

    • She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.
  • 2

    To have a ranking.

    • Their defense ranked third in the league.
    • I vex my heart with fancies dim: / ⁠He still outstript me in the race; / ⁠It was but unity of place / That made me dream I rank’d with him.
  • 3

    To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.

    • Ranking all things under general and special heads.
    • Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
  • 4

    To take the rank of; to outrank.

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。