核心畫面

One way to picture stabbing: the single quick thrust of something pointed. Not a slow press, not a steady weight — one movement, very fast, landing on one small spot. English keeps that movement and hangs two different things on it. Inside the body it becomes the shape of a pain that arrives all at once in one place. Out in the street it becomes the name of an event, an attack made with a knife.

「stabbing」可以想成「尖的東西快速刺進去的那一下」。不是慢慢壓下去,也不是一直悶著,而是一下、很快、落在一個更多收起「stabbing」可以想成「尖的東西快速刺進去的那一下」。不是慢慢壓下去,也不是一直悶著,而是一下、很快、落在一個很小的點上。英文把這個動作留住,再往兩邊掛上不同的東西。往身體裡走,它變成一種痛的形狀:突然來、位置集中。往外面走,它變成一件事情的名字:有人持刀傷了人。

From the word’s history

Both uses are the -ing form of the verb stab. The packet gives no further root, so nothing beyond that is claimed.

兩個用法都是動詞 stab 的 -ing 形式,資料只記到這裡。上面的核心畫面是幫助記憶的想法,不是歷史來源的說明。

Wiktionary form-of relation supplied in the evidence packet: stabbing is the present participle and gerund of stab.

Two branches

突然刺一下的痛

把那一下刺的動作搬進身體裡,形容一種痛的形狀。

adjective · B2

Used about pain: sharp, sudden, and strong, as if something with a point had been pushed into you.

刺痛的

持刀傷人的事件

同一個動作,但這次留在外面的世界,而且被 -ing 包成一件可以數的事情。

noun · B2

An attack in which someone is hurt or killed with a knife. It is treated as a crime, and the word is used most often in news reports.

持刀傷人事件

原始詞典資料3 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。

stabbingadj/ˈstæb.ɪŋ/

  • 1

    Sharp, intense.

    • Too much running gives me a stabbing pain in the chest.

stabbingnoun/ˈstæb.ɪŋ/

  • 1

    An incident in which a person is stabbed.

    • A stabbing took place in the alley last night.
    • The hospital receives many victims of stabbings.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。