核心畫面
You can picture something standing perfectly fixed in place — not a single movement, not a sound, the way a pond looks at dawn. From that one idea of 'held fixed, unmoving' grow two directions: things that are physically still (calm, quiet, ), and time that 'stays fixed/keeps standing' the same as before — which is how the adverb 'still' (= up to now, even now) was born.
可以想成一個東西穩穩定在原地:一動也不動、一聲也沒有,像清晨無風的湖面。從這個「定住、不動」的畫面長出兩個方向:一邊…更多收起
可以想成一個東西穩穩定在原地:一動也不動、一聲也沒有,像清晨無風的湖面。從這個「定住、不動」的畫面長出兩個方向:一邊是實際上的靜(不動、安靜、無風),一邊是時間上的「維持原樣、繼續定在那」——這正是副詞 still(到現在還、仍然)的由來:情況沒變、還「定」在原本的狀態。蒸餾器那個 still 則是另外一個來源(見該家族)。原始詞典資料27 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。
Stillname
- 1
A surname.
stilladj詞源 1/ˈstɪl/
- 1
Not moving; calm.
- Sit there and stay still!
- Still waters run deep.
- 2
Not effervescing; not sparkling.
- still water; still wines
- 3
Uttering no sound; silent.
- The sea that roared at thy command, / At thy command was still.
- 4
Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
- To follow the still President’s marching orders, all that Secretary Ronnie Puno has to do is to follow the road map laid out by Justice Azcuna in his “separate” opinion.
- 5
Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
- […] a still small voice.
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obsoleteConstant; continual.
- By still practice learn to know thy meaning.
- […] A lifelong tract of time reveal’d; The fruitful hours of still increase; Days order’d in a wealthy peace, And those five years its richest field.
- 7
datedbiologybotanynatural-sciencesDormant.
- a still spore
stilladv詞源 1/ˈstɪl/
- 1
Without motion.
- They stood still until the guard was out of sight.
- 2
Up to a time, as in the preceding time.
- Is it still raining? It was still raining five minutes ago.
- We’ve seen most of the sights, but we are still visiting the museum.
- 3
To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs.
- Tom is tall; Dick is taller; Harry is still taller / Harry is taller still.
- The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.
- 4
Nevertheless.
- I’m not hungry, but I’ll still manage to find room for dessert.
- Yeah, but still...
- 5
archaicAlways; invariably; constantly; continuously.
- Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion.
- [W]hereas many Chymiſts vvould be vaſtly rich, if they could ſtill do in great Quantities vvhat they have ſometimes done in little ones, many have undone themſelves by obſtinately attempting to make even real Experiments more gainful.
- 6
Even, yet.
- Some dogs howl; more yelp; still more bark.
- Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
stillnoun詞源 1/ˈstɪl/
- 1
A period of calm or silence.
- the still of the night
- Between the roar of the thunder and the blatter of the rain there were intervals of an astounding still, of an ominous suspense […]
- 2
artshobbieslifestyleA photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
- 3
artsbroadcastingcinematographyA photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
- One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express!
- 4
slangA resident of the Falkland Islands.
stillnoun詞源 2/ˈstɪl/
- 1
A device for distilling liquids.
- 2
A large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
- 3
The area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
- 4
A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
stillverb詞源 3/ˈstɪl/
- 1
To calm down, to quiet.
- to still the raging sea
- They likewise believed that he, having a full Sway and Command over the Water, had Power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it […]
stillverb詞源 4/ˈstɪl/
- 1
obsoleteTo trickle, drip.
- And if that any drop of slombring rest / Did chaunce to still into her wearie spright,
- 2
To cause to fall by drops.
- 3
To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
- The knowledge of stilling is one pretty feat, The waters be wholesome, the charges not great
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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。