核心畫面
Picture a bottle going into the green bin, being melted down, and coming back as a new bottle — the material never leaves the loop, it just goes round again. That loop is the word. Send an old joke or an old paragraph round the same loop and English uses the very same verb, usually with a small smile at whoever could not be bothered to write something new.
可以想成：一個瓶子丟進回收桶，被熔掉，再變成一個新瓶子——材料沒有離開這個圈子，只是又繞了一圈。recycle 講的…更多收起
可以想成：一個瓶子丟進回收桶，被熔掉，再變成一個新瓶子——材料沒有離開這個圈子，只是又繞了一圈。recycle 講的就是這個圈。而如果繞的是一個舊笑話或一段舊文章，英文用的還是同一個動詞，只是語氣裡通常帶點「懶得寫新的」的調侃。原始詞典資料8 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。
recycleverb/ˌɹiːˈsaɪkəl/
- 1
To break down and reuse component materials.
- Both paper and plastic can be recycled.
- Recycling and reusing the material eliminates the need to import aggregate, a strategy which has avoided over 50,000 lorry movements on local roads.
- 2
To reuse as a whole.
- Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
- He [Huw Jones] was hauled down in England’s 22 but, when the ball was quickly recycled, [Finn] Russell’s miss-pass gave Sean Maitland the room to score in the left corner.
- 3
To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
- Most cans, bottles, and jars need to be rinsed, so recycle while you are doing dishes.
- Recycling is no longer a chore when this convenient recycling center is a fixture in your kitchen.
- 4
To be recycled.
- Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.
- 5
To discard into a recycling bin.
- 6
governmentmilitarypoliticsTo put (a person) through a course of training again.
- Recruits cannot fail this portion of their training and become a Marine. Anyone who fails may be “recycled” through training up to three more times to try again, but will be sent home if success in this program is not achieved.
- 7
To skate toward the rear of the engagement zone to maximize the time that an opposing jammer must spend before returning to the action.
recyclenoun/ˌɹiːˈsaɪkəl/
- 1
An act of recycling.
- First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor. Because all soluble concentrations are the same, the recycle of soluble constituents around the system has no impact on system performance.
- If the agency does not approve recycle of the cadet who failed to qualify, the cadet is sent home and is not hired by the department who sponsored him or her in the academy.
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。