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You can picture 'show' as lifting a cover so another pair of eyes can land on something that was hidden or . The thing was there all along; 'show' is the act of bringing it into someone's view — a photo you hold up, a feeling that crosses your face, a fact you lay on the table, a film put up on a screen. Almost everything 'show' does is some version of that one move: 'now you can see it.' The noun grows straight out of this — a 'show' is a thing-put-up-to-be-seen, an event built for eyes.

可以把 show 想成掀開一塊蓋布,讓另一雙眼睛落在原本藏著、或沒被注意到的東西上。那東西一直都在,show 只是把…更多收起可以把 show 想成掀開一塊蓋布,讓另一雙眼睛落在原本藏著、或沒被注意到的東西上。那東西一直都在,show 只是把它帶進別人的視線——你舉起的一張照片、掠過你臉上的一種情緒、你攤在桌上的一項事實、放上螢幕的一部片子。它幾乎所有的用法都是同一個動作的不同版本:「現在你看得到了。」名詞的 show 也直接從這裡長出來——一場 show 就是一個「被擺出來給人看」的東西、一個為眼睛而辦的場合。

原始詞典資料40 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。

Showname

  • 1

    A surname.

showverb詞源 1/ʃəʊ/

  • 1

    To display, convey or exhibit; to have something available for others to see; to direct attention to something.

    • The king showed great wisdom in his decisions.
    • The actor showed Macbeth's confidence in this scene.
  • 2

    To display, convey or exhibit; to have something available for others to see; to direct attention to something.

    • The record shows that you have been late twelve times this year.
    • Our schedule is showing appointments all day.
  • 3

    To display, convey or exhibit; to have something available for others to see; to direct attention to something.

    • Could you please show him on his way. He has overstayed his welcome.
    • Who can show me to the office? I'll show you in.
  • 4

    To display, convey or exhibit; to have something available for others to see; to direct attention to something.

    • to show mercy; to show favour
    • (dialectal) show me the salt please
  • 5

    To display, convey or exhibit; to have something available for others to see; to direct attention to something.

    • The cinema on Ninth Avenue is showing a couple family movies.
    • They showed episodes of some awful TV show on our flight.
  • 6

    To display, convey or exhibit; to have something available for others to see; to direct attention to something.

    • John is showing his work tonight.
    • The Smithsonian shows most of that artist's work.
  • 7

    To display, convey or exhibit; to have something available for others to see; to direct attention to something.

    • The store on Eighth Street is showing the new spring collection in the window.
  • 8

    card-gamesgamesTo display, convey or exhibit; to have something available for others to see; to direct attention to something.

    • There's a bunch of ways to show a bad hand.
另外 12 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    card-gamesgamesTo display, convey or exhibit; to have something available for others to see; to direct attention to something.

    • He just wanted to finish this hand, so he showed as soon as he could.
    • He called instantly but was too ashamed to show until the river.
  • 10

    To display, convey or exhibit; to have something available for others to see; to direct attention to something.

    • That's why we don't show in Philadelphia anymore.
    • She's showing her poodle at the dog show.
  • 11

    To prove (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate; to instruct.

    • We showed that the hypothesis is correct.
    • She is showing how to complete the task.
  • 12

    To prove (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate; to instruct.

    • She showed herself to be a jerk.
    • That shows what kind of person he is.
  • 13

    To prove (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate; to instruct.

    • She doesn't think I can win, so if I do, that'll show her.
    • I'll prove your innocence to show it to your accusers.
  • 14

    To be or become visible or apparent; to be seen or demonstrated; to appear or be made to appear.

    • That wine stain shows on your shirt. You should wear a jacket to cover it up, so it doesn't show.
    • Your bald patch is starting to show.
  • 15

    informalTo be or become visible or apparent; to be seen or demonstrated; to appear or be made to appear.

    • Nobody even showed at our party.
    • We waited for an hour, but they never showed, so we had to take the bus home.
  • 16

    To be or become visible or apparent; to be seen or demonstrated; to appear or be made to appear.

    • In the third race: Aces Up won, paying eight dollars; Blarney Stone placed, paying three dollars; and Cinnamon showed, paying five dollars.
  • 17

    To be or become visible or apparent; to be seen or demonstrated; to appear or be made to appear.

    • An error message will show on your monitor.
    • A color fluctuation will show on your computer screen.
  • 18

    informalTo be or become visible or apparent; to be seen or demonstrated; to appear or be made to appear.

    • She's not showing yet, so I didn't realize she was pregnant.
    • Jessica: "So, um, do you think Bella's gonna be showing?" Angela: "Jess, she's not pregnant." Jessica: "Okay. Who else gets married at eighteen?"
  • 19

    archaicTo be or become visible or apparent; to be seen or demonstrated; to appear or be made to appear.

    • He showed tired after a long day's toil.
    • […] until the grey wintry dawn paled them, and the chill earth showed ghostly and desolate in the cold light.
  • 20

    obsoleteTo be or become visible or apparent; to be seen or demonstrated; to appear or be made to appear.

    • My lord of York, it better showed with you.

shownoun詞源 2/ʃəʊ/

  • 1

    A play, dance, or other entertainment.

    • There were a thousand people at the show.
    • Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
  • 2

    An exhibition of items.

    • art show;  dog show
    • Represented by Olney Gleason gallery, she was the subject of a 2025 solo show at the MSU Broad Art Museum in Michigan and recently unveiled a permanent installation at the Princeton University Art Museum.
  • 3

    A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.

    • radio show;  television show
    • They performed in the show.
  • 4

    A movie.

    • Let's catch a show.
  • 5

    An agricultural exhibition.

    • I'm taking the kids to the show on Tuesday.
    • E. C. McEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds
  • 6

    A project or presentation.

    • Let's get on with the show.
    • Let's get this show on the road.
  • 7

    A demonstration.

    • show of force
  • 8

    Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)

    • I envy none their pageantry and show.
    • The dog sounds ferocious but it's all show.
另外 10 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.

    • So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament.
  • 10

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe major leagues.

    • He played AA ball for years, but never made it to the show.
  • 11

    obsoletebusinessminingA pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.

  • 12

    archaicPretence.

  • 13

    archaicSign, token, or indication.

  • 14

    obsoleteSemblance; likeness; appearance.

    • Beware of the scribes,[…]which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers.
    • He through the midst unmarked, In show plebeian angel militant Of lowest order, passed.
  • 15

    obsoletePlausibility.

  • 16

    medicinesciencesA discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

  • 17

    slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA battle; local conflict.

    • A subaltern, wearing a glengarry, came out of a house, playing with the nose of a shell. He walked a little way with me. “Going into the show?”
  • 18

    A circular impression on sand, indicating the presence of a clam by its siphon.

    • Iron Springs offers a guided clam dig for first timers or those who are rusty at spotting the clam's show at low tide. It includes a license and all the equipment you'll need to catch your limit on Copalis Beach […]

shownoun詞源 3/ʃəʊ/

  • 1

    Synonym of shive (“wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp”).

    • When the flax is ſufficiently watered, it feels ſoft to the grip, and the harle parts eaſily with the boon or ſhow, which laſt is then become brittle, and looks whitiſh.
    • Laſt year (1793) I tranſplanted, from ſeed-beds, into the nurſery, ſeveral fruit-trees; the ground around ſome of which I covered, as above, with flax-ſhows. Notwithſtanding the great heat of the ſummer, none of thoſe trees where the earth was covered with ſhows, died or decayed; becauſe the ſhows prevented the earth under them from being dried by the ſun.

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。