核心畫面

Hold up an old sweater to the window. Light comes through in twenty places at once — small holes, everywhere, not one big tear. Nothing about it is still whole, and nobody is going to it hole by hole. That is the whole word. Keep the picture and change what is making the holes: insects, rust, rot — or mistakes, bugs, damp, guilt. Once you can see the light coming through, both uses are the same sight.

把一件舊毛衣舉到窗邊。光同時從二十個地方透進來——都是小洞,到處都是,不是一個大破口。整件沒有一塊是完好的,也沒有人更多收起把一件舊毛衣舉到窗邊。光同時從二十個地方透進來——都是小洞,到處都是,不是一個大破口。整件沒有一塊是完好的,也沒有人會一個洞一個洞去補。這個字可以想成就是這個畫面。畫面不動,只換造成洞的東西:蟲、鏽、腐爛,或者錯誤、bug、霉、愧疚。只要看得到光透進來,兩個用法看到的其實是同一幕。

Two branches

真的都是洞

這一組就是那件毛衣本身,看得見、摸得到的洞。

adjective · B2

Full of small holes, all over, because something has gone through it or eaten into it many times.

滿是小洞

壞東西到處都是

畫面照舊,只是把洞換成別的壞東西。這是把具體的畫面借去講抽象的情況,不是說這個字在歷史上先有哪個意思。

adjective · B2

If something is riddled with a bad thing, that bad thing is all through it, in every part, not just in one place.

充滿(不好的東西);到處都是

原始詞典資料4 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。

riddledadj/ˈɹɪdəld/

  • 1

    Damaged throughout by holes.

    • When the legislation was debated by the House of Commons, Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner said it was "riddled with holes", while former Conservative Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said it was "badly written".
  • 2

    Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.

    • The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud.
    • Riddled with guilt for having failed to oppose the project, Zac sacrifices himself by driving the truck into the lab, detonating the explosives at the same time as the Effect reoccurs.
  • 3

    Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.

    • a hole-riddled sweater
    • They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards.

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。