喜樂美語

核心畫面

Two clusters share this spelling. One picture is the BACK end of a thing — the rear of a car or building, the part behind you. The other is a verb meaning to RAISE something UP from below — raising a child, or an animal rising onto its hind legs. They look the same but grew from different roots, so it helps to hold two pictures, not force one.

這個拼法其實藏了兩組不太相關的意思。一組可以想成「東西的後半部」——車子的尾部、建物的背面、你身後的位置；另一組是動…更多收起這個拼法其實藏了兩組不太相關的意思。一組可以想成「東西的後半部」——車子的尾部、建物的背面、你身後的位置；另一組是動詞，可以想成「從下往上立起來」——把小孩養大，或是動物用後腿站起來。兩者拼法一樣但來源不同，分開記比較不會混淆。

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。

rearverb詞源 1/ˈɹɪə/

  • 1

    To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.

    • He wants a father to protect his youth, and rear him up to virtue.
  • 2

    To breed and raise.

    • The family has been rearing cattle for 200 years.
  • 3

    To rise up on the hind legs.

    • The horse was shocked, and thus reared.
  • 4

    To get angry.

  • 5

    To rise high above, tower above.

    • By my side reared a solid stone wall, and beneath was simply the room we stood in, for the space below the stairway was not enclosed.
  • 6

    literaryTo raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.

    • Poverty reared its ugly head. (appeared, started, began to have an effect)
    • The monster slowly reared its head.
  • 7

    rareTo construct by building; to set up

    • to rear defenses or houses
    • to rear one government on the ruins of another.
  • 8

    rareTo raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.

    • It reareth our hearts from vain thoughts.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoleteTo lift and take up.

    • And hauing her from Trompart lightly reard, / Vpon his Courser set the louely lode,
  • 10

    obsoleteTo rouse; to strip up.

    • And seeks the tusky boar to rear.

rearadj詞源 2/ˈɹɪə/

  • 1

    Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.

    • the rear rank of a company
    • sit in the rear seats of a car

rearadv詞源 2/ˈɹɪə/

  • 1

    dialectalearly; soon

    • Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear!

rearnoun詞源 2/ˈɹɪə/

  • 1

    The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.

    • Nipt with the lagging rear of winters froſt.
  • 2

    governmentmilitarypoliticsSpecifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.

    • When the fierce Foe hung on our brok'n Rear
  • 3

    anatomymedicinesciencesThe buttocks or bottom.

rearverb詞源 2/ˈɹɪə/

  • 1

    To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.

  • 2

    vulgarTo sodomize (perform anal sex)

rearverb詞源 3/ˈɹɪə/

  • 1

    To move; stir.

  • 2

    To carve.

    • Rear that goose!
  • 3

    obsoleteregionalTo revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)

    • He healeth the blind and he reareth to life the dead.

rearadj詞源 4/ˈɹɪə/

  • 1

    dialectal(of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.

  • 2

    (of meats) Rare.

    • Fred ordered a rear steak along with a glass of beer as he took a seat at an empty table

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。