持續供應（動作）
這一族是 supply 的動作面：把需要的東西送到對方手上，而且常常是長期、一再地送。
provide · verb · B2
To give people something they need or want, especially again and again over a long time.
供應；提供
核心畫面
Think of one hand keeping another hand fed: you keep handing over the things someone needs, again and again, so they never run short. Everything else is either that flowing act, or the pile you draw from to do it.
可以想成一隻手不停把對方需要的東西遞過去：水、電、貨、物資，一次又一次地送，讓對方不會斷。supply 的兩個身分都…更多收起
可以想成一隻手不停把對方需要的東西遞過去：水、電、貨、物資，一次又一次地送，讓對方不會斷。supply 的兩個身分都從這個畫面長出來——當動詞，它是「持續把需要的東西送過去」這個動作；當名詞，它是「為了能一直送，你手上備著、隨時可取用的那一批存量」。所以無論是動詞還是名詞，核心都圍著「備好、然後源源送出」這件事。Three branches
備著可取用的存量
要能源源送出，手上得先備著一批。這一族就是那批「存著、需要時就拿來用」的量或東西——從抽象的存量，到具體的補給品，到把它送進家門的整套系統。
stock ready to use · noun · B2
An amount of something that you have ready and can use when you need it.
供應量
手上備有（狀態）
這是把「備著存量」那個名詞畫面，反過來用動詞講你的狀態：你身上備有多少。
be supplied with (stocked) · verb · B2
To have a lot of something, or a little of something, ready to use — used in phrases like 'be well supplied with'.
備有；存有
原始詞典資料14 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。
supplyverb詞源 1/səˈplaɪ/
- 1
To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- to supply money for the war
- 2
To furnish or equip with.
- to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition
- 3
To fill up, or keep full.
- Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
- 4
To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- It was objected against him that he had never experienced love. Whereupon he arose, left the society, and made it a point not to return to it until he considered that he had supplied the defect.
- 5
To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- Burning ships the banished sun supply.
- The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.
- 6
To act as a substitute.
- 7
To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
- to supply a pulpit
supplynoun詞源 1/səˈplaɪ/
- 1
The act of supplying.
- 2
An amount of something supplied.
- A supply of good drinking water is essential.
- She said, "China has always had a freshwater supply problem with 20 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its freshwater".
- 3
economicssciencesThe market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself.
- Supply and demand ebb and flow in a complex interplay.
- The supply of timber to the region's mills was lower than expected this month, owing to transport problems posed by wildfires.
- 4
Provisions.
- They are busy laying in supplies for the coming winter.
- 5
An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
- to vote supplies
- 6
Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
supplyadv詞源 2/ˈsʌp.li/
- 1
Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
- His voice was playful and full; his back was bent supply.
- […] the rain struck on her head as she bent supply to the movements of the pony, while it scrambled up the bank to the sheltering trees. For a couple of miles the path ran through woods alive with the varied voices of the rain, […]
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。