喜樂美語

From the word’s history

From shade + -ing; shade is from Middle English schade, a doublet of shadow.

shade 加 -ing；源自中古英文 schade，和 shadow 同源。

Wiktionary

Picture light being held back a little, so one area goes a step darker than the one beside it. On paper that step is what makes a circle into a ball. Follow the same idea outward and you get the other uses: many small steps between dark and light become many small differences between things that are nearly alike, and the thing standing between you and the sun - leaves, cloth, a roof - is what holds the light back in the first place.

可以想成光被擋掉一點點，讓某一塊比旁邊暗了一階。在紙上，這一階就是讓圓變成球的關鍵。順著同一個想法往外走，其他用法就跟著出現了。暗到亮之間有很多階，這些階搬到抽象的東西上，就成了「幾乎一樣的東西之間那一點差別」。而一開始把光擋下來的那樣東西——樹葉、布、屋頂——在比較舊的英文裡也可以叫 shading。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

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同家族的字

shadings

意思相近

shadownuancesshadetonesubtletiessheltertoninggradationscoverdarkeningfine distinctionscanopy

意思相反

highlightextremessunlightlightabsolutesexposure

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

shadingnoun

  • 1

    The act or result of something being shaded.

    • the delicate shadings of colour in the painted sunset
  • 2

    Something providing shade.

    • We placed ourselves on a rustic bench under the shading of a fine old elm; ...

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摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。