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The sense here is about eating: stuffed means you have eaten so much that you could not take another bite. 'No dessert for me, thanks — I'm stuffed.' It is the natural, everyday way English speakers say this, far more common in speech than 'I am full'. It is informal but not rude, and it is used happily at a friend's table or a family dinner. At a very formal meal you might it to 'I couldn't eat another thing'. The feeling is usually pleasant and a little comic — you are overfull, often after a very good meal. Notice the picture behind it. To stuff something is to push filling inside until no space is left, the way you fill a cushion or a toy. Saying you are stuffed treats your stomach the same way — packed tight. The same verb gives us stuffed animals (soft toys filled with cotton) and in a roast chicken, so this eating sense sits inside a family of 'filled right up' meanings. Grammar point: it works like a describing word here, with be or feel — I'm stuffed, we were absolutely stuffed. You cannot say 'I stuffed' to mean this. To say who did it, use the verb instead: 'I stuffed myself.' One warning for : in British and Australian English 'get stuffed' is a rude way of telling someone to go away, and 'stuffed' can also mean broken or ruined. Those are separate uses — the food meaning is completely safe.
吃得很飽、撐死了(台灣口語「我飽到不行」「撐爆了」)。比 I'm full 更口語、更常用。注意英式/澳式的 get stuffed 是「滾開」的粗話,跟吃飽無關。
組成From the verb stuff + the ending -ed. Stuff means to push material inside something until it is full — think of stuffing a cushion or a soft toy. Adding -ed makes it a describing word meaning 'having been filled up'.
原始詞典資料6 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。
stuffedadj/stʌft/
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Full or packed (with some material or substance).
- Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills
- Customs officers look closely through a stuffed suitcase.
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cookingfoodlifestyleFilled with a filling and seasoning.
- We're having stuffed turkey for dinner.
- The turkey is stuffed with a stuffing made of bread and herbs.
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slangFull after eating.
- Near-synonym: stuffed to the gills
- Stuffed children sleep poorly.
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informalVery tired.
- 'Well, you talked me into it,' said Cornelius. 'I feel really stuffed. I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.'
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Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
- If the suspension was stuffed already from hitting the concrete base of the fence—and it was—then it was really stuffed by the time we'd gone a kilometre along the railway.
- But if you don't play ball in life, if you don′t go for it with a sincere 'Go, girrrrl' rugby-tackle attitude, you're really stuffed.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。