- 1濕透的、浸透的（重點在「吸飽水而變重、變爛」，不只是 wet 的濕）；形容人時指被酒泡糊塗了
Soaked with water — so wet that the thing has gone heavy, soft, and unpleasant. This is the key point: 'sodden' is not just 'wet'. A shirt in the rain is wet; a shirt you find at the bottom of the garden three days later, dripping and shapeless, is sodden. The water has gone all the way in and changed the thing. We say sodden ground (after days of rain, your shoe sinks), sodden clothes, sodden bread, a sodden field. It always sounds bad — nobody says 'sodden' about something they are happy about. There is a second use for people: 'sodden' means dulled and slow, usually from drinking too much. 'A drink-sodden old man', 'his brain was sodden with whisky.' Same picture — something has soaked in and made him heavy and useless. This word is more common in writing and in British English than in daily American speech; a student will meet it in novels and news reports about floods more often than in conversation.
組成Originally the old past participle of 'seethe', which used to mean 'to boil'. So 'sodden' first meant 'boiled' — food boiled until it was soft and soggy. Modern English kept the soggy heaviness and dropped the boiling.
同家族的字
- seethesodden is the old past participle of seethe, back when seethe meant 'to boil'; today seethe means to be very angry, but it is the same word
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
soddenadj/ˈsɒ.dən/
- 1
Soaked or drenched with liquid; soggy, saturated.
- It is found, indeed, that meat, roaſted by a fire of peat or turf, is more ſodden than when coal is employed for that purpoſe.
- The outfalls are choked, the dams are perforated by crabs or broken down by floods, and soon the ground becomes more and more sodden.
- 2
archaicBoiled.
- The thirde [drynke] is of that kinde of hony named Pechmes, whiche is made of newe wine sodden, vntill the third parte be boyled awaye […]
- […] howe Almidor the blacke King of Moroco was sodden to death in a cauldrone of boyling leade and brimstone.
- 3
Drunk; stupid as a result of drunkenness.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, line 560, You whoreson sodden headed sheepes-face […]
- […] thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows […]
- 4
Dull, expressionless (of a person’s appearance).
- Remoue and march, soft and faire Gentlemen, soft and faire: double your files, as you were, faces about. Now you with the sodden face, keepe in there […]
- 1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, London: T.N. Longman and L.B. Seeley, Letter 49, pp. 444-445, Of the music-girls, many are pretty featured, but carry in every lineament, the signs of their lamentable vocation: sodden complexions, feebly glossed over by artificial daubings of the worst colour […]
soddenverb/ˈsɒ.dən/
- 1
To drench, soak or saturate.
- She had cooked for him a mutton-chop, which was soddening itself between two plates upon the little table near the fire.
- But as I lay asleep the top had been pressed off the box, and the tinder got loose in my pocket; and though I picked the tinder out easily enough, and got it in the box again, yet the salt damps of the place had soddened it in the night, and spark by spark fell idle from the flint.
- 2
To become soaked.
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