喜樂美語

核心畫面

Think of honey on your fingers: whatever touches the surface does not come away clean, and does not come away easily. Two things are joined that you would rather keep apart — and pulling free takes effort. Almost every other use of sticky is that same feeling moved off the hand and onto weather, a problem, a website, or a person.

可以想成手指沾到蜂蜜的那個感覺：碰到什麼，什麼就跟著你走，甩也甩不掉，要分開得費一番力氣。sticky 的其他用法幾…更多收起可以想成手指沾到蜂蜜的那個感覺：碰到什麼，什麼就跟著你走，甩也甩不掉，要分開得費一番力氣。sticky 的其他用法幾乎都是把這個「黏住、脫不了身」的觸感從手上搬到別的地方——搬到空氣裡就是悶熱潮濕，搬到問題上就是甩不掉的麻煩，搬到網站上就是使用者離不開。

原始詞典資料19 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。

Stickynoun

  • 1

    slangA member of the Official Irish Republican Army.

stickyadj/ˈstɪki/

  • 1

    Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.

    • Is this tape sticky enough to stay on that surface?
    • Particularly sticky books are cleaned with methylated spirits.
  • 2

    Difficult, awkward.

    • This is a sticky situation. We could be in this for weeks if we're not careful.
    • GCN is not just another clipboard of polite press releases. GCN is the sticky questions, the sweet moments, and the dirty stories that make up our lives.
  • 3

    Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.

    • Salmond studied medieval Scottish history as well as economics at university so he cannot say he has not had fair warning – it was even more turbulent and bloody than England at that time – and plenty of Scotland's kings and leaders came to a sticky end. If it happens this time, it won't be dull.
  • 4

    Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.

    • The baby was due in December and the hot, sticky August weather was making Jane uncomfortable.
  • 5

    Mawkish, sentimental.

    • Love you and miss you and wish you all the sticky things one wishes at this season for someone one loves.
  • 6

    businessfinanceTending to stay the same; resistant to change.

    • a sticky price; sticky wages
  • 7

    informalcomputingengineeringmathematicsPersistent.

    • We should make the printing direction sticky so the user doesn't have to keep setting it.
  • 8

    computingengineeringmathematicsAppearing on all virtual desktops.

另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

  • 10

    Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.

    • A woman has come to me with the complaint that her website is not sticky: 70% of the visits last 30 seconds or less.
  • 11

    informalResembling or characteristic of a stick.

    • What's something that is brown and sticky? A stick

stickynoun/ˈstɪki/

  • 1

    A sticky note, such as a post-it note.

    • Her desk is covered with yellow stickies.
  • 2

    A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

  • 3

    businessmanufacturingA small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.

  • 4

    A sweet dessert wine.

  • 5

    slangSticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.

    • We'd smoked some nice sticky that night and fucked with some Erk and Jerk too, so my head was still cloudy when Pimp came in the room and said get up.
    • Still smoking sticky, it ain't no other option / Not for made niggas, and I'm never stopping
  • 6

    obsoleteslangWax.

stickyverb/ˈstɪki/

  • 1

    to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

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。