核心畫面

A hard, strong grey metal that doesn't bend or break easily — the stuff bridges, knives and machines are made of.

可以想成那種又硬又強、灰灰的金屬:橋樑、刀子、機器都是用它做的,不容易彎、也不容易斷。steel 的核心比較像這塊「更多收起可以想成那種又硬又強、灰灰的金屬:橋樑、刀子、機器都是用它做的,不容易彎、也不容易斷。steel 的核心比較像這塊「堅硬不屈」的金屬本身,而它「硬、強、扛得住」的特質,被借去形容人和產業。

Two branches

鋼這種金屬

這一家就是核心畫面本身——那塊硬金屬,以及由它直接延伸出來的東西:做這金屬的整個產業,還有一種特定用途的鋼器。

steel (metal) · noun · B2

A strong, hard metal made from iron mixed with a small amount of carbon, used to build things like bridges and machines.

像鋼一樣堅強

把鋼「硬、強、扛得住、不會彎」的特質從金屬借到人身上:講一個人面對危險或痛苦時能不動搖、保持冷靜。這是核心畫面從物理的硬延伸到心理的硬。

nerves of steel · noun · B2

The ability to stay brave and calm when something is dangerous or hard, used in the phrase 'nerves of steel'.

鋼鐵般的膽量

原始詞典資料32 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。

Steelname詞源 1

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    A surname.

Steelname詞源 2

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    obsoletehistoricalslangBridewell Prison in London, England.

steelnoun詞源 1/stiːl/

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    An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.

    • Ocearium stæli.
    • Accearium steeli.
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    Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

    • For heom ne may halter ne bridel Bringe from here wode wyse, Ne mon mid stele ne mid ire.
    • For braue Macbeth (well hee deſerues that Name) Diſdayning Fortune, with his brandiſht Steele, Which ſmoak'd with bloody execution (Like Valours Minion) caru'd out his paſſage.
  • 3

    Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

    • Of ston mid stel in ðe tunder wel to brennen one ðis wunder.
    • The Cock falling with its wonted violence upon the Steel.
  • 4

    Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

    • Þai gun hem boþe armi In iren and stiel þat tide.
    • In compleate steele.
  • 5

    Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

    • The steill to scherp the schawing jrne.
    • When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones...
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    businessmanufacturingsewingAny item made of this metal, particularly including:

    • I haue a ruffe is a quarter deep, measured by the yeard... You haue a pretty set too, how big is the steele you set with?
    • I suppose the bullet must have struck the steels in my corsets.
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    dialectalAny item made of this metal, particularly including:

    • One of them having occasion to use a Steele, smoothing Iron, or some such kinde of Laundry Instrument.
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    dialectalbusinessmanufacturingsewingAny item made of this metal, particularly including:

    • The threaded steel...Flies swiftly.
另外 7 個記錄的用法
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    mediaprintingpublishingAny item made of this metal, particularly including:

    • A re-issue of the Examples of the Architecture of Venice. By John Ruskin... With the Text, and the 16 Plates (10 Steels and 6 Lithographs) as originally published.
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    Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

    • The crews at the port batteries were pumping steel at the enemy.
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    businessmanufacturingsewingAny item made of this metal, particularly including:

    • A trailing skirt embroidered in what is termed fine steel.
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    entertainmentguitarlifestyleAny item made of this metal, particularly including:

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    obsoletemedicinesciencesMedicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.

    • A stronger physick is now necessary, perhaps a whole course of steel: A physick, God knowes, that this Kingdome hath been under five or six yeares.
    • Steel is not so good as Iron for Medicinal Operation.
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    The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.

    • Falkenhayn gave...to Jane a steel glacé silk dress.
    • It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman’s look, and the robust and man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson’s chest in his sleep.
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    Extreme hardness or resilience.

steeladj詞源 1/stiːl/

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    Made of steel.

    • Strained in stel ger on steedes of might.
    • The tyrant custome...Hath made the flinty and steele Cooch of warre, My thrice driuen bed of downe.
  • 2

    Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.

    • Wher neuer cessing soyle doth steelebright stuff send out from mines.
    • Prison my heart in thy steele bosomes warde.
  • 3

    businessOf or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.

    • [T]he discoverie of the yron and steele mines.
    • From their new dungeons at Chantilly, Aristocrats may hear the rustle of our new steel furnace there.
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    obsoletemedicinesciencesContaining steel.

    • To mix some Sugar of steel, or steel wine with the first glass.
    • I have found a singular Virtue in Steel drops, præpared after my Mode.
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    mediaprintingpublishingEngraved on steel.

    • The best picture I have had yet is the steel frontis-piece to my new book.

steelverb詞源 1/stiːl/

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    To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.

    • Hure þolien ant a beoren hare unirude duntes wið mealles istelet.
    • When God...draws aside his curtain, and shows his arsenal and his armory, full of arrows steeled with wrath.
  • 2

    obsoleteTo treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.

    • Nay, a Crystall glasse will not show a man his face, except it be steeled, except it be darkned on the backside.
  • 3

    obsoletemedicinesciencesTo treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.

    • She drunk her drink steeled, with which she was cured.
  • 4

    To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.

    • My large dry-point,...called Two Stumps of Driftwood, gave 1000 copies (after being steeled) without perceptible wearing.
  • 5

    To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.

  • 6

    To treat, furnish with, or transform into steel.

    • By passing an electric current thus through the bars the operation of steeling is much hastened.
    • It seems evident that by the beginning of the 10th century B.C. blacksmiths were intentionally steeling iron.
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    To cause to resemble steel.

    • But stil he was so steelde With heart so good, as victor he dead left them in the field.
    • Giue me my heart...O giue it me lest thy hard heart do steele it, And being steeld, soft sighes can neuer graue it.
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    literaryTo cause to resemble steel.

    • And lo! those waters, steeled By breezeless air to smoothest polish, yield A vivid repetition of the stars.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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    dialectalTo press with a flat iron.

    • Tha hasn't tha Sense to stile thy own Dressing.

steelname詞源 2/stiːl/

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    obsoleteslangColdbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.

    • I was lugged before the beak, who gave me six doss in the steel. [...] six months in the Bastille (the old House of Corrections), Coldbath Fields.
    • He said he had been in the “steel” (Coldbath Fields Prison) eight times.

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