核心畫面

The piece of clothing on the top half of your body — the one you wear closest to your skin, with a collar and sleeves. Because a shirt is the very thing right on your body, the two both play on that: keeping it 'on' (not tearing it off in a rage) and laying it down as a bet (the most personal thing you own).

可以想成貼在你上半身的那件衣服——有領子、有袖子、最靠近你身體穿的那一件。正因為襯衫就是穿在身上的東西,兩個慣用語都更多收起可以想成貼在你上半身的那件衣服——有領子、有袖子、最靠近你身體穿的那一件。正因為襯衫就是穿在身上的東西,兩個慣用語都拿它來玩:把它「穿著別脫」(別氣到把衣服都扯掉),還有把它押下去當賭注(你身上最貼身、最私人的東西都拿出來賭了)。

原始詞典資料4 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。

shirtnoun詞源 1/ʃɜːt/

  • 1

    businessclothingfashionAn article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, often with sleeves that cover some or all of the arms.

    • He went to the mall to find a decent shirt for his interview.
    • She had her shertes & gyrdyls of heere.
  • 2

    An interior lining in a blast furnace.

  • 3

    A member of the shirt-wearing team in a shirts and skins game.

shirtverb詞源 2/ʃɜːt/

  • 1

    To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.

    • 1691, King Arthur, by John Dryden, act II, scene I. Ah! for so many souls, as but this morn / Were clothed with flesh, and warm’d with vital blood / But naked now, or shirted just with air.

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