鳥鳴、動物的鳴聲
把「歌」這個畫面借給動物：鳥兒一連串高低起伏、帶旋律感的叫聲，聽起來就像在唱歌，於是也叫 song。人聽見它的音樂性，便用人的詞去稱呼。
a bird's song · noun · A2
The musical sounds made by a bird or some other animal.
鳴叫聲；鳥鳴
核心畫面
Picture sound shaped into music by a voice — a short piece you can sing, words riding on a tune. From that one image both directions open: outward to all singing and even a bird's musical call, and into a couple of fixed phrases where 'song' stands for something cheap, or for a lot of fuss made over nothing.
可以想成由嗓音把聲音塑造成音樂——一小段你能唱出來的曲子，歌詞乘著旋律走。從這個畫面往兩邊展開：一邊伸向所有的歌唱，…更多收起
可以想成由嗓音把聲音塑造成音樂——一小段你能唱出來的曲子，歌詞乘著旋律走。從這個畫面往兩邊展開：一邊伸向所有的歌唱，甚至鳥兒帶著音樂感的叫聲；另一邊縮進幾個固定說法裡，用「song」來代表很便宜的東西，或為小事大費周章的吵鬧。From the picture
固定片語裡的引申
幾個把「song」鎖進固定說法的用法。它們不再真的指音樂，而是借歌的某種聯想——便宜得像賣唱、或像一齣又唱又跳的鬧劇——來講別的事。意思已經整組成形，要當片語記。
for a song · noun · A2
In 'for a song', for very little money; very cheaply.
非常便宜
Also in this word
a song (piece of music) · noun · A2
Words joined to a tune, forming a short piece of music for singing.
歌曲
song (singing in general) · noun · A2
Singing or songs thought of together as one thing.
歌；歌唱
原始詞典資料17 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。
Songname詞源 1
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historicalA former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan.
- Up until the Song dynasty (960 to 1279 A.D.), it was the case that, like in the West, each person would get their own meal.
- A 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty sold at auction for $37.7 million on Tuesday, breaking the record for Chinese porcelain, auction house Sotheby's said. The small piece -- which dates from 960-1127 -- broke the previous record of $36.05 million set in 2014 for a Ming Dynasty wine cup which was sold to a Shanghai tycoon.
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historicalA former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China.
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historicalThe era of Chinese history during which the dynasty reigned.
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A surname from Chinese.
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A river in China; any of various minor rivers in China.
Songname詞源 2
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A river in Papua New Guinea.
Songname詞源 3
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A local government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
Songname詞源 4
- 1
A surname from Khmer.
Songname詞源 5
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A district of Phrae Province, Thailand.
songnoun/sɒŋ/
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
- Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.
- The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
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Any musical composition.
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Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
- This subject for heroic song.
- The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.
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The act or art of singing.
- How often the enthusiast has dwelt upon the birds bursting into song, the buds bursting into flower, all nature bursting into life!—as though a state of things in which everything around us is bursting is at all pleasant.
- Or take one that is less of an explanation and more of a song , The Spider . I knew all along what I wanted to say about a spider . I wanted to say all the good things I could . For spiders are the one order of creation that I thoroughly dislike.[…]
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A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
- I love hearing the song of canary birds.
- That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
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biologynatural-sciencesornithologyThe distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory; contrasts with call; also, similar vocalisations made by female birds.
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A low price, especially one under the expected value; chiefly in for a song.
- He bought that car for a song.
- his [a common soldier's] pay is a song.
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obsoleteAn object of derision; a laughing stock.
- And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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。