核心畫面

Picture the structure, not the flavour: something held tightly between two other things, one above and one below. Bread with cheese in the middle is the everyday version. Once you see the shape rather than the food, a layered cake fits, and so does a person squeezed between two strangers on a train.

可以想成:先看結構,不要看口味——一樣東西被緊緊夾在另外兩樣東西中間,上面一片、下面一片。麵包夾起司是最日常的版本。更多收起可以想成:先看結構,不要看口味——一樣東西被緊緊夾在另外兩樣東西中間,上面一片、下面一片。麵包夾起司是最日常的版本。一旦你看到的是這個形狀而不是食物,夾心蛋糕就進來了,捷運上被兩個陌生人擠在中間的那個人也進來了:都是同一個「上下夾住」的畫面。

From the picture

被夾在中間

把食物拿掉,只留下「上下夾住、中間很擠」這個結構,就成了動詞:某人或某物被塞進兩者之間的窄縫裡。

squeeze in between · verb · A2

to put someone or something into a very small space between two other people or things.

夾在中間

Also in this word

bread with filling · noun · A1

two pieces of bread with cheese, meat, egg, or other food between them.

三明治

layered cake · noun · A2

a cake made of two soft layers with jam, cream, or fruit between them.

夾心蛋糕

原始詞典資料16 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。

Sandwichname

  • 1

    A town and civil parish with a town council in Dover district, Kent, southeastern England, one of the historic Cinque Ports (OS grid ref TR3258).

  • 2

    An English habitational surname originating from this town.

    • The young lady, who made her firſt appearance in Lady Bab Lardoon, at the Haymarket on Monday night laſt, is a Miſs Prideaux, and lineally deſcended from one of the daughters and co-heireſſes of the Right Hon. John Wilmot, the witty Earl of Rocheſter, and conſequently related to the Sandwiches, Pomfrets, Coopers, and many other noble families.
  • 3

    One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:

  • 4

    One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:

  • 5

    One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:

sandwichnoun/ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.

    • The most famous place in Copenhagen, Ida Davidsen, has a menu of 190 different kinds of open sandwich.
  • 2

    Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.

  • 3

    A layer cake or sandwich cake.

    • […] our local agricultural fair in Warwickshire even has a category for Victoria sandwiches baked by male bakers.
  • 4

    archaicA sandwichman (one who wears a sandwich board).

    • We have, and not so very long ago, seen women employed as 'sandwiches'.

sandwichverb/ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    To place (an item) physically between two other, usually flat, items.

    • We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day.
    • An oddity of the auto-train services, incidentally, was the occasional "doubling", usually for football excursions, when the load was increased to four coaches with the engine sandwiched between.
  • 2

    To put or set between two other events in time.

    • Street BASIC is becoming the language taught in junior high; it is sandwiched between Logo, which is taught in elementary school, and Pascal, which is taught in high school.
    • Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.
  • 3

    lifestylesexsexualityTo double penetrate.

    • They sandwiched her, the footballer at her back, his dick tucked into the perfect seam of her ass as he fingered her pussy while the shorter, leaner, covered-in-tattoos Monsieur Artiste kissed her and pinched her nipples
  • 4

    informalTo feed sandwiches to.

    • But one or two evil-disposed characters muttered they might be sure the lady had her own turn to serve, and they might be sure they wasn't "teaed and muffined and sandwiched for nothing!"
    • The association of veteran firemen, which has a membership of 200, kept open house for New Year callers, and all comers were bountifully sandwiched and coffeed.
  • 5

    rareTo eat sandwiches.

    • Mr. and Mrs. Ted Craig (he^([sic]) speaker of the assembly) emerging from a popular drive-in after having sandwiched and coffeed . . .
    • He coffeed and sandwiched along the highway.

sandwichadj/ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。