喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a tool left out in the rain for a season: nobody used it, nobody dried it, and a rough red-brown crust has crept over the metal. It still is what it is — but it doesn't move as smoothly as it did. Neglect, made visible.

一把被丟在院子裡淋了一整季雨的工具：沒人用它、沒人擦它，金屬表面慢慢爬上一層粗糙的紅褐色鏽。東西還是那個東西，但轉起…更多收起一把被丟在院子裡淋了一整季雨的工具：沒人用它、沒人擦它，金屬表面慢慢爬上一層粗糙的紅褐色鏽。東西還是那個東西，但轉起來卡卡的、不再俐落。這個畫面的關鍵其實不是「舊」，而是「放著不動」——鏽是「久未使用」留下的看得見的痕跡。所以英文才能拿同一個字去講一個人的能力：不是壞了，是荒廢了。

One branch

久放不用的痕跡

兩個意思共用同一個畫面，只是一個長在金屬上、一個長在能力上：都是「太久沒動」的結果。

rusty, corroded metal · adjective · A2

If a piece of metal is rusty, it is covered in rust: the rough, red-brown layer that grows on iron or steel that has been left in water or wet air for a long time.

生鏽的

原始詞典資料9 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。

Rustyname

  • 1

    A male given name.

rustyadj詞源 1/ˈɹʌsti/

  • 1

    Marked or corroded by rust.

    • The overall mood of this volume is one of melancholy and loss, weary resignation to one's lot—trudging round and round on the rusty hamster wheel of life.
  • 2

    Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.

    • Alive? he might be dead for aught I know, / With that red gaunt and colloped neck a-strain, / And shut eyes underneath the rusty mane;
    • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
  • 3

    Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.

    • Before the match, Hodgson had expressed the hope that his players would be fresh rather than rusty after an 18-day break from league commitments because of two successive postponements.
  • 4

    historicalOf clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby.

    • He wore a black jacket, rusty and amorphous.
    • The clerk stared at him and the rusty black bonnet a moment, and then laughed.
  • 5

    Affected with the fungal plant disease called rust.

rustynoun詞源 2/ˈɹʌsti/

  • 1

    slangA gun or in particular an old or worn one.

    • My angles dusty, two black hands on the rusty And I got uck from a peng ting, mad back but the chest busty

rustyadj詞源 3/ˈɹʌsti/

  • 1

    Discolored and rancid; reasty.

    • rusty bacon
  • 2

    dialectalCantankerous

    • But they paraded the street, and watched the yard till dusk, when its proprietor ran rusty and turned them out.

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。