發出有調子的聲音
這一組是核心畫面本身，只是發聲的東西一路換：人、鳥、然後是不會呼吸的物體。共同點都是那種又高又持續的聲音。
sing (voice) · verb · A1
To make music with your voice, using words or tunes.
唱歌
核心畫面
Picture a sound coming out of you that is not plain talking: it has a tune, it is held long, it carries across a room, and other people are meant to hear it. Two features of that picture do all the work later — the sound itself (so birds and even kettles can sing), and the fact that a song is a set piece you choose to perform in public (so the tune you sing becomes the line you take, and singing becomes talking when you were supposed to stay quiet).
可以想成 sing 是「從你嘴裡出來、但不是在講話」的那種聲音：有調子、拉得長、傳得遠，而且本來就是要讓別人聽見的。…更多收起
可以想成 sing 是「從你嘴裡出來、但不是在講話」的那種聲音：有調子、拉得長、傳得遠，而且本來就是要讓別人聽見的。後面所有的用法都是抓住這個畫面的兩個特點：一個是「那個聲音」本身（所以鳥會 sing，連燒開的水壺也可以 sing）；另一個是「唱歌是一首選好的曲子，公開表演給人聽」（所以「你唱哪一首」就變成「你採取什麼說法」，而 sing 也可以變成「該閉嘴的時候卻開口講了」）。Three branches
你唱的是哪一首
唱歌是「挑一首曲子，大聲唱給大家聽」。英文把這個畫面搬到說話上：你唱什麼歌，就等於你公開表達的是什麼立場；換一首歌，就是換了說法；大家唱同一首，就是口徑一致。
sing someone's praises · verb · A1
To praise someone a lot and tell other people how good they are.
大力稱讚
開口全講出來
唱歌是「聲音大方地放出來、讓所有人都聽見」。把這個特點放到不該出聲的場合，就成了「該閉嘴卻全說了」。
inform / confess (slang) · verb · A1
To tell the police or others everything you know about a crime.
招供、全招了
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。
Singname/ˈsɪŋ/
- 1
A surname from English [in turn originating as an occupation].
- 2
A surname from Chinese.
- 3
Alternative spelling of Singh A South Asian surname.
singverb/ˈsɪŋ/
- 1
To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- "I really want to sing in the school choir," said Vera.
- And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders, and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
- 2
To perform a vocal part in a musical composition, regardless of technique.
- 3
To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
- sing a lullaby
- In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
- 4
To soothe with singing.
- to sing somebody to sleep
- 5
biologynatural-sciencesornithologyOf birds, to vocalise:
- 6
literaryOf birds, to vocalise:
- I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing: And unto one her note is gay, For now her little ones have ranged; And unto one her note is changed, Because her brood is stol’n away.
- The evening was still very warm, and the birds in the woods were singing in praise of spring.
- 7
To rejoice.
- My heart was singing.
- 8
slangTo confess under interrogation.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
- 9
To make a small, shrill sound.
- The air sings in passing through a crevice.
- a singing kettle
- 10
To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry; to praise.
- Who would not ſing for Lycidas? he knew / Himſelf to ſing, and build the lofty rhyme.
- Again I bid the mournful Goddeſs write / The fond Purſuit of fugitive Delight: / Bid her exalt her melancholy Wing, / And rais'd from Earth, and ſav'd from Paſſion, ſing / Of human Hope by croſs Event deſtroyed, / Of uſeleſs Wealth, and Greatneſs unenjoy'd, […]
- 11
To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
- The sauce really makes this lamb sing.
- [Alissa Monte said] “This result was all about demonstrating that LZ [the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment] works, and it does! As we take more data and mature our analyses, we get to make LZ sing. […]”
- 12
To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.
- No song sings well unless it is open-vowelled, and has the rhythmic stress on the vowels. Tennyson's songs, for instance, are not generally adapted to music.
- 13
In traditional Aboriginal culture, to direct a supernatural influence on (a person or thing), usually malign; to curse.
- ‘He says the Walcott Inlet men have sung him, and this tribe will meet the Walcott men and fight when the big walk-about comes, after the peanut season.’
- ‘We sung them two real good. We never give Louis Beck no place to find rest from his torment.’
- 14
archaicslangTo yell or shout.
- I took my flogging like a stone. If I had sung, some of the convicts would have given me some lush with a locust in it (laudanum hocussing), and when I was asleep would have given me a crack on the head that would have laid me straight.
singnoun/ˈsɪŋ/
- 1
The act, or event, of singing songs.
- I sometimes have a quick sing in the shower.
- Then all three would go off in search of the first, give it a good talking to and maybe a bit of a sing as well.
- 2
Any sound likened to human singing.
- heard the unmistakable twang of bowstrings against bracers, the sing of a long-bow volley, and made for the door
- the sing of axe on concrete
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。