核心畫面
You can picture a boat with its sail full of wind and your own hand on the : no engine, just the wind pushing and you deciding where it takes you. Everything the word covers hangs on that one action of a boat moving under sail — either as something you do for pleasure, or as the moment a ship actually pushes off and goes.
可以想成一個畫面：帆被風吹得鼓起來，你的手握著舵柄，沒有引擎，只有風在推，而方向由你決定。這個字的兩個意思都從「船靠…更多收起
可以想成一個畫面：帆被風吹得鼓起來，你的手握著舵柄，沒有引擎，只有風在推，而方向由你決定。這個字的兩個意思都從「船靠風走」這個動作長出來——一邊是你自己下海去做的那件事，一邊是船真的離開碼頭、開出去的那一刻。原始詞典資料6 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。
sailingadj詞源 1/ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/
- 1
Travelling by ship.
sailingnoun詞源 2/ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/
- 1
Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise.
- 2
Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel.
- 3
The time of departure from a port.
- 4
A scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.
- 'Then I should like a full list of the warships in Pentland Harbour, recent sailings, and those expected, please. The "Navy List" I suppose you have here?'
- New ships were built to the order of the Great Eastern Railway, and the service frequency increased, until March 1879, saw a sailing every weekday to Rotterdam, and a thrice-weekly service to Antwerp.
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 Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。