喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture a large bird high over a valley, wings held open and still, carried upward by the warm air instead of flapping. Two things sit inside that picture: it is high, and it goes up easily. Almost every other use of 'soar' borrows one or both — prices climb like that bird, hopes lift like that bird, and a tower can simply hold the height without moving at all.

可以想成一隻大鳥在山谷上空，翅膀張開卻幾乎不動，被熱氣流一路托著往上。這個畫面裡有兩個東西：一是「高」，二是「輕鬆地…更多收起可以想成一隻大鳥在山谷上空，翅膀張開卻幾乎不動，被熱氣流一路托著往上。這個畫面裡有兩個東西：一是「高」，二是「輕鬆地往上」。soar 其他的用法幾乎都是借走其中一樣——價格像那隻鳥一樣往上竄，心情像那隻鳥一樣被托起來，而一棟高樓則是把「高」留下、把「動」拿掉。

From the picture

數字與心情往上衝

把那隻鳥的上升軌跡搬到看不見的東西上：不是身體在飛，而是數字或情緒被拉到很高的位置。

rise sharply · verb · B2

to increase quickly to a very high level.

飆升；猛漲

高聳在那裡

只留下畫面裡的「高」，把動作抽掉：東西沒有真的在動，是看的人的視線一路被帶上去。

tower / rise tall · verb · C1

To rise up very tall, in a way that looks impressive.

高聳；屹立

Also in this word

soar (glide high) · verb · B2

to fly high in the sky, often floating on moving air without hard wing beats.

翱翔；高飛

shoot upward · verb · B2

To go up quickly through the air to a great height.

竄升；高高飛起

原始詞典資料9 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。

Soarname/sɔː(ɹ)/

  • 1

    A river in Leicestershire, England, a tributary to the Trent.

soarverb/sɔː/

  • 1

    To fly high with little effort, like a bird.

    • When soars Gaul's Vulture, with his wings unfurl'd,
  • 2

    To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.

  • 3

    To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.

  • 4

    To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.

    • The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued.
    • A planning document produced in October 1984 said that Class 46 maintenance costs were soaring and rapid withdrawal would occur, and this came to pass by the end of the year.
  • 5

    To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.

    • Such where the deep tranſported mind may ſoare / Above the wheeling poles,
    • Valour soars above What the world calls misfortune.
  • 6

    To increase rapidly in number, volume, size, or amount.

soarnoun/sɔː/

  • 1

    The act of soaring.

    • c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor this apparent soar of the hooded falcon
  • 2

    An upward flight.

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。