核心畫面
Pressing something soft until it goes flat and loses its shape — a berry under your thumb, a paper cup under your foot. Everything else is that same downward press, applied to people in a crowded space, to an idea someone wants to stop, or to a feeling you push back down.
可以想成用力往下壓一個軟的東西,壓到它扁掉、走樣:草莓被拇指壓爆、紙杯被腳踩扁。其他用法多半是同一個「壓」的動作換了…更多收起
可以想成用力往下壓一個軟的東西,壓到它扁掉、走樣:草莓被拇指壓爆、紙杯被腳踩扁。其他用法多半是同一個「壓」的動作換了對象——壓的是擠在小空間裡的人、是別人想推的計畫、是自己心裡冒出來的情緒。原始詞典資料21 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。
Squashname
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A surname
squashnoun詞源 1/skwɒʃ/
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A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- She plays squash every Saturday.
- Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
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A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
- Sure. I pour hot squash all over myself and we all have a good chuckle. Everyone except Muggins here.
- When I'm thirsty I drink squash; it tastes much nicer than plain water.
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A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
- It's a bit of a squash in this small room.
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biologynatural-sciencesA preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
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obsoleteSomething soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
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derogatoryobsoleteSomething unripe or soft.
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obsoleteA sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
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slanggovernmenthobbieslifestyleAn extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
- It was one of the most shocking WWE title matches ever witnessed, and effectively a 20-minute squash match as Brock Lesnar "conquered" his opponent.
squashverb詞源 1/skwɒʃ/
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To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
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To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
- Somehow, she squashed all her books into her backpack, which was now too heavy to carry.
- We all managed to squash into Mum's tiny car.
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To suppress; to force into submission.
- A somewhat popular myth about the Whiskey Rebellion is that Washington personally led the troops into western Pennsylvania and squashed the rebellion.
squashintj詞源 1/skwɒʃ/
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obsoleteThe sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water.
- […] rain, too, had lately fallen, and had decidedly not evaporated, since, at every step, I went squash! squash! up to the tops of my boots, and many times very extent, stretching to the eastward, […]
- […] to catch all the rain […]; my boots went squash, squash, as I turned on to the high road, […]
squashnoun詞源 2/skwɒʃ/
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesAny other similar-looking plant of other genera.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesAny other similar-looking plant of other genera.
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cookingfoodlifestyleThe edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
- We ate squash and green beans.
squashnoun詞源 3/skwɒʃ/
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obsoleteMuskrat.
- The squash is a four-footed beast, bigger than a cat.
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。