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The long, straight, narrow part of something — like the handle of a golf club, the stick part of an arrow, or a tool handle. It's also a long narrow passage that goes straight up or down, like an elevator shaft or a mine shaft. And "a shaft of light" is a narrow beam of light coming through a small gap. , "to get the shaft" means to be treated badly or .
桿、柄（工具的長條部分）；（電梯、礦坑）井道；（光）一道光
原始詞典資料20 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。
shaftnoun/ˈʃɑːft/
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obsoleteThe entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
- A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele, the feathers, and the head.
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The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
- Her hand slipped off the javelin's shaft towards the spearpoint and that's why her score was lowered.
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
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Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
- […]and the Thunder, / Wing'd with red Lightning and impetuous rage, / Perhaps hath ſpent his ſhafts […]
- The correction of theſe will reſtore its proper dignity to the ſtudy of antiquities, and cauſe the ſhafts of ridicule, which have been ſucceſsfully thrown at it, to recoil.
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Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool.
- While Kitto chatted to William, Jessamy looked with interest at the dog cart. It had a pair of high wooden wheels with two seats back to back above. Between the shafts the bay mare tossed her head and fidgeted on the cobbles.
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Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool.
- Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesAny long thin object, such as the handle of a tool.
- Sarah, if you wear gloves your hands might not slip on your shaft and you can up your game, girl!
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literaryA beam or ray of light.
- Isn't that shaft of light from that opening in the cave beautiful?
- They were a fine company of old women, and a Dutch painter would have loved to find them there together, where the sun made bright patches on the floor and sent long, quivering shafts of gold through the dusky shade up among the rafters.
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The main axis of a feather.
- I had no idea that they removed the feathers' shafts to make the pillows softer!
另外 9 個記錄的用法
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A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine.
- Your grandfather used to work with a crane hauling ore out of the gold mine's shafts.
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A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator.
- Darn it, my keys fell through the gap and into the elevator shaft.
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A ventilation or heating conduit.
- Our parrot flew into the air duct and got stuck in the shaft.
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architectureAny column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
- Spirit, that made those heroes dare / To die, or leave their children free / Bid Time and Nature gently spare / The shaft we raise to thee.
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anatomymedicinesciencesThe main cylindrical part of the penis.
- The female labia minora is homologous to the penis shaft skin of males.
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The chamber of a blast furnace.
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climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesA relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
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businessmanufacturingtextilesA component of a loom which holds the heddles and is raised by treadles to create the shed.
- Eight shafts are required to weave this structure. If you have four shafts, you may weave something similar by threading alternate blocks to plain weave and 2/2 basket.
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slangAn act of sexual intercourse.
- I sat on the sofa, got up, changed channels and doubted there'd be time to have a quick shaft and feign an orgasm today.
shaftverb/ˈʃɑːft/
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slangTo fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
- Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.
- Who can I trust after repeatedly being shafted
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To equip with a shaft.
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slangTo fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.
- Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.
- Which grotesque auld hing-oot will the shrivelled post-menopausal slag want tae shaft? Stay tuned.
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。