喜樂美語

核心畫面

Water closing over the top of something until nothing is left showing. Not a splash, not a wet surface — the line of the water passes above the thing, and it is gone from view. Everything the word does keeps that one line: the water can be real, or it can be work, grief and debt rising over a person's head, or it can be your own hand holding a feeling down where nobody can see it.

submerge 的核心畫面可以想成：水面慢慢蓋過某樣東西的頂端，最後什麼也看不見。不是潑濕，也不是碰到水，而是水的…更多收起submerge 的核心畫面可以想成：水面慢慢蓋過某樣東西的頂端，最後什麼也看不見。不是潑濕，也不是碰到水，而是水的那條線越過了它。這個字的每一種用法都留著那條線。水可以是真的水；也可以是工作、悲傷、債務漲過人的頭頂；還可以是你自己的手，把一種感覺按在水面底下，不讓別人看見。

From the word’s history

Borrowed from Latin submergere, from sub ('under') plus mergere ('to plunge'); by surface analysis, sub- + merge. The two pieces still say what the word does: to go, or put, under.

借自拉丁文 submergere：sub 是「在下面」，mergere 是「浸下去」。從構詞上看就是 sub- + merge。這兩塊到今天還說著同一件事：往下面去，或把東西放到下面去。

Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:835490581:26089)

Three branches

真的沉到水面下

核心畫面的字面版本，差別只在誰是主詞：是水蓋過東西，還是東西自己沉下去。

verb · B2

To cover something completely with water or another liquid, so that no part of it is left above the surface.

把…浸入水中；淹沒

人整個沉在裡面

把水換成事情：工作、悲傷、債務漲過人的頭頂。同樣一條水線，只是這次蓋住的是人。

verb · C1

If a feeling, an amount of work, or a problem submerges someone, it covers them completely so that they cannot deal with anything else. It is used most often in the passive: be submerged in or by something.

被…淹沒；壓得喘不過氣

把感覺按在水面底下

這次動手的是你自己：把東西按在水線底下，讓它不露出來。它還在，只是看不見。

verb · C1

To push a feeling, an idea, or an opinion down inside yourself and stop yourself from thinking about it, so that other people cannot see it.

壓下（情緒、想法）

原始詞典資料5 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。

submergeverb/səbˈmɜːd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    To sink out of sight.

    • The submarine submerged in the water.
  • 2

    To put into a liquid; to immerse; to plunge into and keep in.

    • In films, many people are murdered by being submerged in swimming pools.
  • 3

    To be below the surface of the sea, a lake, river, etc.

    • On the day of RAIL 's site visit, in heavy weather, the scaffolding and decking that engineers stand on were submerged deep under choppy water, with work suspended. "We have to work around the tides," explained Project Director Alan Venables. "The wind pushes the tide up and the waves get larger. That causes some problems with the scaffold."
  • 4

    To engulf or overwhelm.

    • Because of the death of his father, he is submerged in sorrow.
  • 5

    To drown or suppress.

    • Mrs Dibble made for the kitchen, stumping violently with her crutches and heaving her bulk along with the obvious determination to submerge her wrongs by resorting to the gin-bottle.

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。