喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can hold one picture for the whole word: a slim, pointed piece of wood — a twig. Poke that twig into soft ground and it goes in and stays put: that single act seeds both halves of the word. The noun side keeps the OBJECT (any long thin piece, and the tools and built on it); the verb side keeps the ACTION (push a point in → and then, more loosely, anything that goes in and won't come loose — glue, jamming, things lodged in the mind).

可以用同一個畫面罩住整個字：一根細細、一頭尖尖的小木枝。把這根枝子戳進鬆軟的泥土，它插得進去、又卡在那裡不動——這一…更多收起可以用同一個畫面罩住整個字：一根細細、一頭尖尖的小木枝。把這根枝子戳進鬆軟的泥土，它插得進去、又卡在那裡不動——這一個動作就同時生出了這個字的兩半。名詞那半留下了「東西」：任何細長的一條，以及由它衍生的工具和片語；動詞那半留下了「動作」：把尖的一頭插進去，再放寬成「凡是進去後就黏住、卡住、拔不掉」的種種情況——膠黏、卡死、印在腦海裡。

原始詞典資料89 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。

Sticknoun詞源 1

  • 1

    A member of the Official IRA.

Stickname詞源 2

  • 1

    entertainmentlifestylemusicThe Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman.

sticknoun詞源 1/stɪk/

  • 1

    An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

    • The beaver's dam was made out of sticks.
    • Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.
  • 2

    An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

    • I found several good sticks in the brush heap.
    • What do you call a boomerang that won't come back? A stick.
  • 3

    An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

    • I found enough sticks in dumpsters at construction sites to build my shed.
  • 4

    An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

    • I don’t need my stick to walk, but it’s helpful.
    • The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
  • 5

    An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

    • As soon as the fight started, the guards came in swinging their sticks.
  • 6

    businesscarpentryconstructionAn elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

    • When cutting the door parts, I cut all the copes first, then the sticks.
  • 7

    nauticaltransportAn elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

  • 8

    An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

    • We were so poor we didn't have one stick of furniture.
    • It is more than poor Philip is worth, with all his savings and his little sticks of furniture.
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  • 9

    slangAn elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

    • I've been working behind the stick for twenty years.
    • […] other side of the stick, that's what they call the bar around here.
  • 10

    Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.

    • Sealing wax is available as a cylindrical or rectangular stick.
  • 11

    Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.

    • The recipe calls for half a stick of butter.
  • 12

    Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.

    • Don’t hog all that gum, give me a stick!
  • 13

    slangAny roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.

    • Cigarettes are taxed at one dollar per stick.
  • 14

    Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.

    • My parents bought us each a stick of cotton candy.
  • 15

    archaicMaterial or objects attached to a stick or the like.

    • Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it[…]
  • 16

    governmentmilitarypoliticsMaterial or objects attached to a stick or the like.

    • Scores of transport planes streamed in to drop stick after stick of containers until the entire sky over the coast was polka-dotted with brightly coloured parachutes.
    • A stick of bombs fell straight across Wotton; blew up half a dozen houses.
  • 17

    A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

    • I grew up driving a stick, but many people my age didn't.
  • 18

    A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

    • I grew up driving stick, but many people my age didn't.
  • 19

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

  • 20

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationA tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

    • For example: in making a turn, should you throw on too much stick and not enough rudder, you'll sideslip.
  • 21

    slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

  • 22

    video-gamesA tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

    • The keyboard offers a full range of actions including Fight and you are given the option of using a Kempston stick for the movement combat.
    • When you’re swooping, looping, and diving with the analog stick (either using the nunchuk or the Classic controller), the game feels very much like its 32-bit predecessor; […]
  • 23

    computingengineeringmathematicsA tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

    • For ultimate presentation portability, a Powerpoint can be saved to a stick as images.
  • 24

    slangA tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

    • A stick in the hand, a drop in the eye.
    • You think you’re real now you’ve got a couple sticks? My favourite younger, he got stabbed in my bits. And if he died fam, I promise I’d have quit.
  • 25

    datedletterpress-typographymediapublishingA tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

    • […]although the headings may often be in other type, still, as these are composed in the same stick, they cannot fail to justify;[…]
  • 26

    slangA tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

    • Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet? Where'd you leave that stick, man?
  • 27

    hobbieslifestylesportsA stick-like item:

    • Tripping with the stick is a violation of the rules.
  • 28

    hobbieshorse-racinghorseracingA stick-like item:

  • 29

    hobbieslifestylesportsA stick-like item:

  • 30

    golfhobbieslifestyleA stick-like item:

    • His wedge shot bounced off the stick and went in the hole.
  • 31

    slanghobbieslifestylesportsA stick-like item:

    • His stroke with that two-piece stick is a good as anybody's in the club.
  • 32

    slanghobbieslifestylesportsA stick-like item:

    • He shoots a mean stick of pool.
    • Come in, have a good time, drink some beer, shoot some stick, listen to some music.
  • 33

    golfhobbieslifestyleAbility; specifically:

    • I doubted that the three iron was enough stick.
  • 34

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesAbility; specifically:

  • 35

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesAbility; specifically:

    • Vaughn has to hit and keep hitting or this will be another year when the Mets don't have enough stick to win.
  • 36

    hobbieslifestylesportsAbility; specifically:

  • 37

    datedslangA person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)

    • Your father's a great old stick. He's really been very good to me.
    • “[…]He’s a good doctor but an odd stick—odder by far than I am, Emily, and yet nobody ever says he’s not all there. Can you account for that? He doesn’t believe in God—and I am not such a fool as that.”
  • 38

    datedslangA person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)

    • "She's a stick, this one. She lacks your—" he patted her left breast— "equipment."
  • 39

    datedslangA person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)

    • The kid was a stick, a plant, a student from UNLV who picked up a few bucks nightly by saying the words "seven of hearts."
  • 40

    datedslanggamblinggamesA person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)

    • A shill is also called a stick, and the role of the shill or stick is to make the customer relax and feel at ease.
  • 41

    datedslangA person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)

  • 42

    datedslangaeronauticsaerospaceaviationA person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)

    • Bill Kirk, described by Robin as a "hell of a stick," didn't even attend college until after the Vietnam War.
  • 43

    datedslanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)

    • I remember when we dreaded the rain, as our stick of soldiers walked through the damp, tick-infested long grass of the Zambezi valley,[…]
  • 44

    Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.

    • We were tempted with the carrot but subtly threatened with the stick.
    • What about contempt? Isn't it used by the judiciary as a stick to dissuade people from writing or talking about them?
  • 45

    slangEncouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.

    • The child killers got some stick. I saw a woman throw a basin of scalding water over a baby killer.
    • “[…] Nigel used the word ‘invasion’ for a long time and got a huge amount of stick […]” he says, referring to the total number of men, women and children who have arrived by small boat in the past seven years.
  • 46

    Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.

    • Most people can remember their first taste of cider: sandwiched between an illicit fag and a bout of throwing up. It’s always been the teen drink of choice: available in group-sized bottles and with a more acceptably fruity taste than beer. It is also the down-and-out’s favourite tipple because it’s stronger than many bitters and lagers, so it’s a cheap way to get wasted. As a consequence, it has never been the hippest of drinks. As a devotee, I’ve come in for some stick over the years.
    • I got some stick personally because of my walking attire. I arrived to training fully kitted out in sturdy walking boots.
  • 47

    slangEncouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.

    • He really gave that digging some stick.
    • She really gave that bully some stick.
  • 48

    slangEncouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.

    • Skunk really gave it some stick all the way to Caliban's place, we passed a good few Coppers but they all seemed to turn the blind eye.
  • 49

    obsoleteA measure.

    • There was another speech in that day's news — a speech which The Times printed on the front page because it was part of a front-page story, and in full — it was only two sticks long; printed in full just after the much longer invocation by the officiating clergyman […]
  • 50

    archaicrareA measure.

    • The stick is employed for eels, and contained twenty-five.
    • In the same charter, Nigel granted another 10 sticks of eels yielded by the fishery of Polwere to the abbey[…]
  • 51

    computingengineeringmathematicsAny of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.

stickverb詞源 1/stɪk/

  • 1

    businesscarpentryconstructionTo cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.

  • 2

    datedslangmediaprintingpublishingTo compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.

    • to stick type
  • 3

    To furnish or set with sticks.

  • 4

    To hit with a stick.

sticknoun詞源 2/stɪk/

  • 1

    A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab; an instance of sticking (pricking or piercing).

    • […]; but let me tell you, my brave boy, that a stick with a sword hurts worse than a prick with a needle.
    • What if Veronica Prego was lying about who drew the blood and it was her own carelessness, not Joyce Fogel's, which caused the needle stick?
  • 2

    medicinesciencesAn instance of piercing someone with a needle, e.g. to draw blood or start an IV.

    • Most phlebotomists (those who do the actual venipuncture) seldom acknowledge a bad stick in front of a donor, especially if the donor is inexperienced and the vein is not a particularly trick one to reach. Rather than admit to blowing an easy stick, the phlebotomist may say or do things to indicate that nothing is wrong or may even place the blame on someone else, usually the donor.
    • Also, for outpatient procedures, placing a central line (due to a difficult stick) because you don't want to place an IV in the foot may be overkill, and cumbersome for ambulating patients. Bringing in the "big guns”: You may need to use an ultrasound machine when you anticipate a difficult stick […]
  • 3

    medicinesciencesA person whom one is piercing with a needle to draw blood or start an IV (especially in the context of how difficult or easy this is).

    • I was called to start an IV on a “difficult stick.” (Notice the term we so commonly use to describe a human being who is difficult to hook up to an IV.)
    • […] the patient is a 'difficult stick' (that is, difficult to draw blood from) and as such will likely have to endure multiple painful attempts beyond the first blood draw, to obtain the culture; […]
  • 4

    The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.

  • 5

    hobbieslifestylemotor-racingThe tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.

  • 6

    That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).

  • 7

    fishinghobbieslifestyleThat which sticks (remains attached to another surface).

    • Problem: A lot of stick and a lack of energy on the forward stroke.
  • 8

    rareinformalOne who sticks at something; one who persists.

    • There had been a reference to the language. "I often wished that I was a better stick at it," said Tulloch. "I'd picked up a bit in Bombay and of course I threw myself into it when Fraser got me the post. […]"

stickverb詞源 2/stɪk/

  • 1

    To become or remain attached; to adhere.

    • The tape will not stick if it melts.
    • The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.
  • 2

    To jam; to stop moving.

    • The lever sticks if you push it too far up.
  • 3

    To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.

    • "I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job. I've got to the point where I can't stick it any longer. I'd get out tomorrow if I could find something else to do."
    • Why do most course organizers stick the job for less than five years?
  • 4

    To persist.

    • His old nickname stuck.
    • "Our team did brilliantly to be in the game. We stuck at it and did a good job. This is disappointing but we'll think about the next game tomorrow."
  • 5

    Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.

  • 6

    To remain loyal; to remain firm.

    • Just stick to your strategy, and you will win.
    • After this contencion, the common people did ſticke vnto king Agis, and the riche men followed Leonidas, praying and perſwading him not to forſake them: and further, they did ſo intreate the Senators, in whom conſiſteth the chiefe authority,[…]
  • 7

    datedTo hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).

    • For thou art so possess’d with murderous hate That ’gainst thyself thou stick’st not to conspire.
    • Some stick not to say, that the Parson and Attorney forg’d a Will, for which they were well Paid […]
  • 8

    datedTo be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.

    • He that has to do with young scholars, especially in mathematics, may perceive how their minds open by degrees, and how it is exercise alone that opens them. Sometimes they will stick a long time at a part of a demonstration, not for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas; that, to one whose understanding is more exercised, is as visible as any thing can be.
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  • 9

    datedTo cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.

    • 1708, Jonathan Swift, The Sentiments of a Church-of-England-Man, with respect to Religion and Government, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, 7th edition, Edinburgh: G. Hamilton et al., 1752, Volume I, Miscellanies in Prose, p. 73, […] this is the Difficulty that seemeth chiefly to stick with the most reasonable of those, who, from a mere Scruple of Conscience, refuse to join with us upon the Revolution Principle […] .
  • 10

    To attach with glue or as if by gluing.

    • Stick the label on the jar.
  • 11

    To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).

    • Stick your bag over there and come with me.
    • Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
  • 12

    To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.

    • The balloon will pop when I stick this pin in it.
    • to stick a needle into one's finger
  • 13

    To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.

    • In certain of their sacrifices they had a lamb, they sticked him, they killed him, and made sacrifice of him: this lamb was Christ the Son of God, he was killed, sticked, and made a sweet-smelling sacrifice for our sins.
    • Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting! fourscore ducats!
  • 14

    To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.

    • to stick an apple on a fork
  • 15

    archaicTo adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.

    • my shroud of white, stuck all with yew
  • 16

    aeronauticsaerospaceaviationTo perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.

    • Once again, the world champion sticks the dismount.
    • stick the landing
  • 17

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesTo propagate plants by cuttings.

    • Stick cuttings from geraniums promptly.
  • 18

    To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.

  • 19

    datedTo bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.

    • to stick somebody with a hard problem
  • 20

    datedslangTo impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.

    • Behind all that languid talk she was feverishly computing, "I wonder how much I can stick him for it. A hundred and fifty? But it's worth that - two hundred. He won't value it unless the price is stiff."
    • Chillin' in a Benz with my amigos / Tryin' to stick a nigga for his pesos
  • 21

    slangTo have sexual intercourse with.

    • You ain't lickin' this, you ain't stickin' this
    • You leave your girl around me; if she's bad she's gonna get stuck.
  • 22

    blackjackgamesTo stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.

stickadj詞源 2/stɪk/

  • 1

    informalLikely to stick; sticking, sticky.

    • A non-stick pan. A stick plaster.
    • A sticker type of glue. The stickest kind of gum.

sticknoun詞源 3/stɪk/

  • 1

    obsoleteThe customary length (according to the material used) of a piece or roll of textile fabrics imported from Flanders.

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。