喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can think of ranking as a line of people standing in order, best at the front. Once the line exists, three different things can be named after it: the work of forming the line, the spot where you are standing in it, and the person standing at the very front. English uses the same word for all three.

ranking 的核心畫面可以想成：一排人照高低站成一條隊伍，最強的站最前面。隊伍一旦排好，就有三樣東西可以用同一個…更多收起ranking 的核心畫面可以想成：一排人照高低站成一條隊伍，最強的站最前面。隊伍一旦排好，就有三樣東西可以用同一個字來叫——排隊伍這件事、你站的那一格，還有站在最前面的那個人。英文就是用同一個 ranking 把這三件事一起收進來。

Two branches

名單上的位置

這一組是隊伍本身：把大家排好，以及你排在第幾。

noun · B1

The place someone or something has on a list that puts people or things in order from best to worst, showing how good they are compared with all the others.

排名／名次

站在最前面的人

隊伍最前面那一格，被拿來當形容詞用，貼在人的前面。

adjective · C1

Used before a noun to say that someone holds a high position, or the highest position, in an organization, or is one of the best people at an activity.

位階最高的／頂尖的

原始詞典資料6 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。

rankingadj/ˈɹæn.kɪŋ/

  • 1

    Having a specified rank.

  • 2

    Superior in rank.

    • Eldred Pottinger was now the ranking political officer and had negotiated—at the insistence of the army's officers—an unmolested passage to Jalalabad.
  • 3

    Prominent or outstanding.

    • In a region as large and sparsely populated as this, it is not surprising that there are few cities. Hu-ho-hao-t’e and Pao-t’ou are the two ranking cities of Inner Mongolia. Hu-ho-hao-t’e, the capital of the region, is one of China's famous ancient cities; it was once a trade center to which the wool, hides, food, and medicine from the surrounding grasslands were brought.
    • But neither leader nor followers give up the rhythms or reasons of a ranking MC, and I'm grieved to report that only “Kick Out the Jams” overcomes the formlessness of personality his detractors have always charged him with — […]

rankingnoun/ˈɹæn.kɪŋ/

  • 1

    The placing of something in a list, for comparison with others.

  • 2

    One’s relative placement in a list, especially to indicate relative quality, size, success etc.

    • Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) CEO Warren Buffett and Facebook's (FB) Mark Zuckerberg rank third and fourth in the world's richest rankings.

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。