喜樂美語

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You stretch your arm out toward something you want to touch or pick up. Everything else is that same stretch, made bigger or more abstract: stretching across distance to arrive, stretching upward to a level or goal, stretching out to contact a person; and as a noun, how far that stretch can go.

可以想成你把手臂往一個想拿的東西「伸出去」。其餘所有意思都是同一個伸展動作的放大或抽象化：把這份伸展橫跨距離，就成了…更多收起可以想成你把手臂往一個想拿的東西「伸出去」。其餘所有意思都是同一個伸展動作的放大或抽象化：把這份伸展橫跨距離，就成了「抵達」；往上伸到某個高度或目標，就成了「達到」；把手伸向某個人，就成了「聯絡上」；而當名詞時，講的就是這份伸展能夠到多遠的範圍。

原始詞典資料36 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。

Reachname

  • 1

    A village and civil parish in East Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL5666).

  • 2

    A former township in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada, now part of the township of Scugog.

reachverb詞源 1/ɹiːt͡ʃ/

  • 1

    To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).

    • He reached for a weapon that was on the table.
    • He reached for his shoe with his legs.
  • 2

    To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.

    • to reach someone a book
    • When Svend Fælling had promised to do so, saying that he thought himself strong and active enough for the encounter, the Troll reached him a heavy iron bar, and bade him show his strength on that.
  • 3

    To stretch out the hand.

  • 4

    To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.

    • to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear
    • “I can't quite reach the pepper. Could you pass it to me?”
  • 5

    To strike or touch.

    • His bullet reached its intended target.
  • 6

    To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.

    • A few words, lovingly, encouragingly spoken failed to reach her heart.
    • Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
  • 7

    To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.

    • his hand reaches the river
    • When the forest reaches the river, you will be able to rest.
  • 8

    To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.

    • After three years, he reached the position of manager.
    • The climbers reached the top of the mountain after a gruelling ten-day hike.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To make contact with.

    • I tried to reach you all day.
  • 10

    To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).

    • What will it take for me to reach him?
    • Whether by design or driven by the force of circumstances, they have always directed their main effort toward gaining the support of this "elite," while the more conservative groups have acted, as regularly but unsuccessfully, on a more naive view of mass democracy and have usually vainly tried directly to reach and to persuade the individual voter.
  • 11

    To arrive at a particular destination.

    • The particulars that reach from Eastern Bengal require corroboration.
    • I reached at the right time.
  • 12

    To continue living until or up to (a certain age).

    • You can only access the inheritance money when you reach the age of 25.
  • 13

    obsoleteTo understand; to comprehend.

    • Do what, sir? I reach you not.
  • 14

    To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.

    • Reach for your dreams.
    • Reach for the stars!
  • 15

    To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).

    • The Thembu tribe reaches back for twenty generations to King Zwide.
  • 16

    nauticaltransportTo sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.

  • 17

    slangTo arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.

    • What time you reaching tomorrow?
    • If you're calling out at your homies to come over and hang out, you just simply say "reach."

reachnoun詞源 1/ɹiːt͡ʃ/

  • 1

    The act of stretching or extending; extension.

  • 2

    The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.

    • The fruit is beyond my reach.
    • to be within reach of cannon shot
  • 3

    The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.

    • Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters which they least intended.
    • Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.
  • 4

    Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.

    • And on the left hand, hell, / With long reach, interposed.
    • I am to pray you not to strain my speech / To grosser issues, nor to larger reach / Than to suspicion.
  • 5

    informalAn exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.

    • To call George eloquent is certainly a reach.
  • 6

    boxinggovernmenthobbiesThe distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.

  • 7

    nauticaltransportAny point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.

  • 8

    nauticaltransportThe distance traversed between tacks.

另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    nauticaltransportA stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.

    • the gulfe Iasius, and all the coast thereof is very full of creekes and reaches.
    • The river's wooded reach.
  • 10

    A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)

  • 11

    An extended portion or area of land or water.

    • Lower down, in a little reach of the lagoon there grew a clump of casuarinas, those timid isolates that withdraw from other trees, selecting their own privacy, which is for ever whispering secrets up in their feathery fronds, set in motion by the slightest breeze.
    • 2002, Russell Allen, "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey. Through eerie reach of ancient woods / Where lumbering mists arise / I journey for nines moons of the year / To where a land of legend lies
  • 12

    obsoleteAn article to obtain an advantage.

    • The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of his own, under hand, to cross the design.
  • 13

    The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.

    • They leaped ahead just as Ruth came to the side of the long reach that connected the small pair of front wheels with the huge wheels in the rear.

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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。