喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the one day in the week when the shops open late, nobody has to be anywhere, and the street is quiet — the day between Saturday and Monday. Around that quiet day a whole set of associations grew up: church clothes, and a slow, pace. The other two meanings are those associations, and each one is locked inside a fixed phrase.

可以想成一週裡最安靜的那一天：店開得晚，沒有人非得趕去哪裡，街上空空的——夾在星期六和星期一中間。這一天的周圍長出了…更多收起可以想成一週裡最安靜的那一天：店開得晚，沒有人非得趕去哪裡，街上空空的——夾在星期六和星期一中間。這一天的周圍長出了一整組聯想：上教堂穿的衣服，還有那種慢吞吞、不趕時間的節奏。另外兩個意思就是這些聯想，而且各自被鎖在一個固定片語裡。

原始詞典資料7 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。

Sundaynoun/ˈsʌn.deɪ/

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    The first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian Sabbath; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.

    • Every day is like Sunday / Every day is silent and grey
    • And after missing a simple header in the first half, the Manchester United striker ensured England topped Group D to set up a quarter-final meeting with Italy in Kiev on Sunday.
  • 2

    informalA newspaper published on Sunday.

    • I gave him the switchboard with my love, went down to the Savoy for breakfast and read the Sundays.
  • 3

    informalA comic strip published in a Sunday newspaper.

    • It just wasn't his thing, although he did beautiful Sundays for however long he did them. So as soon as he could, he hired someone to do the Sundays. Karen and I would do some dailies, but we were the Sunday artists.
  • 4

    informalDescribes someone who does something occasionally or casually, and therefore without skill.

    • Your face is the color of a Sunday swimmer who swallowed half the pool.
    • My limbs felt hollow, empty. Empty, empty, empty. A Sunday cyclist on a casual ride could have passed me.
  • 5

    informalDescribes something particularly fine and elegant, particularly something that could be worn to or used at church.

    • His father replies with a special tone of voice (his 'Sunday voice', which he also used for reading fairy tales): 'That is about the tragedy of human beings!'
    • It landed on the wire mesh in front of me, thrust its thin, monkey-arm through the wire, seized my Sunday hat, blue satin ribbons, rosettes and all, and squealing in triumph made off with it, leaping and bounding, to the top of the monkey-tree.

Sundayverb/ˈsʌn.deɪ/

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    informalTo spend Sunday (at a certain place, with a certain person or people, etc.).

    • I waded through accounts of new calves and colts, new fences and barns, who “Sundayed” with his brother, etc., and soon had a list of all the cases in that part of the country.
    • The dogs and I were Sundaying on the garden lawn.

Sundayadv/ˈsʌn.deɪ/

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    informalOn Sunday.

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。