喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a bucket that is only half full, carried down a hall. The water has room to swing, so it runs up one side, slaps back, and now and then goes over the rim — and the whole time you can hear it. That wet swinging sound is where the word itself comes from, and every use of slosh keeps some part of the picture: sometimes the liquid is doing the swinging, sometimes a person is throwing it about, sometimes a person is walking through it and making the same noise with their feet.

可以想成一個只裝半滿的水桶，被人提著走過走廊。水在裡面有空間可以甩，衝上一邊、又拍回來，偶爾就這樣越過桶緣。而且整個…更多收起可以想成一個只裝半滿的水桶，被人提著走過走廊。水在裡面有空間可以甩，衝上一邊、又拍回來，偶爾就這樣越過桶緣。而且整個過程你都聽得見那個濕濕的聲音。這個字本身就是從那個聲音長出來的。slosh 的每一個用法，都還留著這個畫面的一部分：有時候是水自己在晃，有時候是人把水倒得亂七八糟，有時候是人踩在水裡走、用腳製造同樣的聲音。

From the word’s history

The word is onomatopoeic — it was made from the sound itself, and it sits in the same family as splash and splosh.

slosh 是擬聲字，直接從那個聲音造出來的，跟 splash、splosh 是同一個聲音家族。所以「聲音」不是它的引申義，而是它一開始就有的東西——這也解釋了為什麼從液體、到倒法、到走路，每個意思都帶著聲音。

packet Wiktionary etymology_text for slosh (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1266733970): "Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh."

Three branches

液體自己晃、發出聲音

這一家最貼近核心畫面：水在容器裡甩來甩去，順便發出聲音。

verb · B2

If a liquid sloshes, it moves about loosely inside a container or a space, usually with a soft wet noise, and often spills over the edge. You can also slosh a liquid, which means you make it move about like that, on purpose or by accident.

晃動；濺出

人把液體隨手倒出去

同樣的亂晃畫面，只是這次是人主動造成的：倒的人不量、也不小心，液體就晃著出去。

verb · B2

To pour a liquid into a container or onto a surface in a quick, careless way, usually a generous amount and without measuring it.

隨手倒；亂潑

人踩著水和泥走

這次水在腳下：人每踩一步，就把同樣的晃動和聲音踩出來。

verb · B2

To walk through water or mud so that it splashes about and makes a wet, noisy sound at every step.

涉水而行；踩著泥走

原始詞典資料12 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。

sloshverb詞源 1/slɒʃ/

  • 1

    To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.

    • The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
  • 2

    To cause to slosh.

    • The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.
  • 3

    To make a sloshing sound.

    • His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.
  • 4

    To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.

    • The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.
    • He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.
  • 5

    to move noisily through water or other liquid.

    • The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.
  • 6

    To punch (someone).

    • She greeted me with a bright smile, and said: “Back already? Did you find it?” With a strong effort I mastered my emotion and replied curtly but civilly that the answer was in the negative. “No,” I said, “I did not find it.” “You can't have looked properly.” Again I was compelled to pause and remind myself that an English gentleman does not slosh a sitting redhead, no matter what the provocation.

sloshnoun詞源 1/slɒʃ/

  • 1

    A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.

    • We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.
  • 2

    A sloshing sound or motion.

  • 3

    Slush.

    • Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.
  • 4

    slangInferior wine or other drink.

    • In the Midi, Grenache dominates most of the traditional appellations. Corbières, Minervois, Fitou, Faugères — these were once bywords for rough-and-ready red slosh.
  • 5

    A game related to billiards.

    • Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty. We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.

sloshnoun詞源 2/slɒʃ/

  • 1

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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。