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Picture a vague pile of material you point at without naming — 'all this stuff'. At the noun's heart is undefined material/things; at the verb's heart is the matching action: pushing material into a space until it is packed. The two share one picture — stuff (the material) is what you stuff (push in). From 'unnamed material' grow your belongings, activities, someone's creative work, and even the inner 'material' a person is made of; from 'push material in' grow filling food, filling a dead animal's skin, eating till you're packed, and a few rude 'shove it' phrases.

可以想成：一堆說不清、也懶得說清的材料，你指著它說「這些 stuff」。名詞的核心比較像「沒指名的材料、東西」；動詞…更多收起可以想成：一堆說不清、也懶得說清的材料，你指著它說「這些 stuff」。名詞的核心比較像「沒指名的材料、東西」；動詞的核心比較像與之相配的動作——把材料往一個空間裡塞，塞到滿。兩者共用同一幅畫面：stuff（材料）正是你 stuff（往裡塞）的東西。從「沒指名的材料」長出：你的家當、做的事情、某人的作品，甚至構成一個人的內在「material」；從「往裡塞」長出：給食物填餡、給死掉的動物填皮做標本、吃到撐，以及幾個粗魯的「滾／才不稀罕」用語。

原始詞典資料30 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。

stuffnoun詞源 1/stʌf/

  • 1

    informalMiscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.

    • What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor? He didn't want his pockets to bulge so he was walking around with all his stuff in his hands.
    • The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
  • 2

    obsoleteinformalMiscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.

    • and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
    • He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.
  • 3

    informalUnspecified things or matters.

    • I had to do some stuff.
    • Andy Jackson puts it more bluntly: "Just because we are off the naughty step doesn't mean we can stop doing stuff. It's far from 'no more action'.
  • 4

    The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

    • Near-synonyms: constituents, ingredients; see also Thesaurus:substance
    • The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, / And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.
  • 5

    archaicThe tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

    • Without waiting for a reply, she unbound the veil from her head, and took off the loose black novice's robe, which she had put over a gray stuff dress similar to that worn by Lucy.
    • "And you can buy a dress for your wife off this piece of stuff," said Lisetta, who had always an eye to business.
  • 6

    archaicThe tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

  • 7

    The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

    • When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
    • We are such stuff / As dreams are made on
  • 8

    datedThe tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    informalUsed as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.

    • Can I have some of that stuff on my ice-cream sundae?
    • It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless.[…]You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentary stuff.”
  • 10

    slangNarcotic drugs, especially heroin.

    • For some idiotic reason the bureaucrats are more opposed to tea than to stuff.
    • For example, one addict would crack shorts (break and enter cars) and usually obtain just enough stolen goods to buy stuff and get off just before getting sick.
  • 11

    obsoleteA medicine or mixture; a potion.

    • I[…]did compound for her / A certaine ſtuffe, which being tane, would ceaſe / The preſent powre of life[…].
  • 12

    Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.

    • Don't give me any of that 'what-about' stuff!
    • Anger would indite / Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write.
  • 13

    nauticaltransportA melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.

    • The master, at my earnest solicitation, examined his vessel, and though he prefers the coal tar, yet he told me, there were shells sticking on, and that a very thin coat of stuff, if any, remained.
    • On the last transverse planking, after: caulking and paying, he has laid on a coat of stuff, so hard when cold aš to resist a firm touch, and applied plain paper, then took heated band irons (such as women use) , and passed the iron from the centre of the sheet to the extremities, thus heating the stuff to make it adhere, pressing out the air, and laying it all flat and united with the course.
  • 14

    datedslangMoney.

stuffverb詞源 2/stʌf/

  • 1

    To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.

    • I'm going to stuff this pillow with feathers.
    • Lest the gods, for sin, / Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.
  • 2

    To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.

    • He stuffed his clothes into the closet and shut the door.
    • Put them [roses] into a[…] glass, with narrow mouths, stuffing them close together […] and [they] retain[…] smell […][and] colour.
  • 3

    cookingfoodlifestyleTo fill with seasoning.

    • She stuffed the turkey for Thanksgiving using her secret recipe.
  • 4

    To load goods into (a container) for transport.

  • 5

    To sate.

    • I’m stuffed after having eaten all that turkey, mashed potatoes and delicious stuffing.
  • 6

    To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.

    • She sits on the sofa all day, watching TV and stuffing herself with cream buns.
    • Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old-fashioned place, full of comforts and conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such a mulberry tree in one corner! Lord! how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there!
  • 7

    To break; to destroy.

    • He skidded off the road and totally stuffed his brand new car.
  • 8

    vulgarTo sexually penetrate.

    • His wife came home early and found him on the couch stuffing the maid.
另外 8 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    vulgarUsed to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.

    • Stuff your stupid rules, I'll do what I like.
    • Jenny nodded in sympathy, spotting Ali's new iPod speakers sitting on top of the TV. Simone smiled and coughed. 'He forgot to take them with him. He can stuff it, it was my money.'
  • 10

    informalTo heavily defeat or get the better of.

    • Mudchester Rovers were stuffed 7–0 in the semi-final.
    • They totally stuffed us in that business deal.
  • 11

    To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.

    • I got stuffed by that guy on the supermoto going into that turn, almost causing us to crash.
  • 12

    To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.

    • KANG: When I take this ship, I'll have Kirk's head stuffed and hung on his cabin wall. // MARA: They will kill us before we can act. // KANG: No, they wish to question us, learn our strength, our plans. They never will. // MARA: We are forty against four hundred. // KLINGON: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man. // KANG: Patience. Vigilance. They will make a mistake. Capture of the Enterprise will give us knowledge to end this war quickly.
  • 13

    To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.

    • I'm stuffed, cousin; I cannot smell.
  • 14

    To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.

    • An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal.
  • 15

    datedTo crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.

  • 16

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.

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。