頭暈、天旋地轉
頭暈的時候，眼前的世界像在水裡一樣浮動、打轉——所以英文說 head/things swim。核心那個『在水中晃動漂移』的感覺，被借來形容暈眩。
swim (feel dizzy, of one's head) · verb · A1
If your head swims, you suddenly feel dizzy or mixed up, as if things are spinning.
頭暈、發昏
核心畫面
Picture a body moving itself through water — arms pulling, legs kicking, staying up and going forward with water all around. Almost every other meaning is that same feeling: being surrounded by water, or moving as if you were.
可以想成一個身體在水裡自己前進——手划、腳踢，浮著、往前，四周都是水。這個字幾乎每個意思，都回到『被水包圍』或『像在…更多收起
可以想成一個身體在水裡自己前進——手划、腳踢，浮著、往前，四周都是水。這個字幾乎每個意思，都回到『被水包圍』或『像在水裡那樣晃著移動』的感覺。From the picture
浸泡、滿是液體
不是自己游，而是被大量液體包住——把核心那個『四周都是水』的畫面，用來說一樣東西整個泡在、淹在液體裡。
swim (be awash in liquid) · verb · A1
To be covered in or full of a large amount of liquid.
泡在、浸在
隨波與逆流
水會流，游泳的人身處水流之中——由此把『當下正在流動的情勢』想成一股水流：你可以逆著它游，也可以身在其中跟著它。
swim against the tide · verb · A1
To be willing to say or do things that differ from what most others do.
逆潮流、唱反調
Also in this word
swim (in water) · verb · A1
To use your arms and legs to push yourself along in water.
游泳
swim (of fish/animals) · verb · A1
When a fish, duck, or other animal moves through water using its tail, fins, or feet.
游
a swim (noun) · noun · A1
A time when you go into water and swim, usually for fun.
游泳
原始詞典資料21 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。
SWIMpron
- 1
Someone who isn't me; someone who isn't myself
- SWIM would like to know how to grow marijuana.
Swimname
- 1
A surname.
swimverb詞源 1/swɪm/
- 1
To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
- We were now all upon a Level, as to our travelling; being unshipp’d, for our Bark would swim no farther, and she was too heavy to carry on our Backs […]
- He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
- 2
To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid.
- swimming in self-pity
- a bare few bits of meat swimming in watery sauce
- 3
To move around freely because of excess space.
- A fam'd Sur-tout he wears, which once was blue, / And his foot swims in a capacious shoe.
- 4
To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to use a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
- For exercise, we like to swim laps around the pool.
- I want to swim the 200-yard breaststroke in the finals.
- 5
To cause to swim.
- to swim a horse across a river
- Half of the guinea pigs were swum daily.
- 6
archaicTo float.
- sink or swim
- There's oil swimming on the water.
- 7
To be overflowed or drenched.
- I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
- Sudden, the ditches ſwell; the meadows ſwim.
- 8
To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
- to swim wheat in order to select seed
另外 3 個記錄的用法
- 9
historicalTo test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
- 10
To glide along with a waving motion.
- 11
To have a great quantity of something.
- You should be swimming in money after this job.
swimnoun詞源 1/swɪm/
- 1
An act or instance of swimming.
- I'm going for a swim.
- She had a quick swim in the bay.
- 2
The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
- 3
A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
- 4
A dance or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc.
- C'mon everybody! C'mon in! Bobby's goin' to show you how to do the swim.
- 5
The flow of events; being in the swim of things.
- With the road ahead now clear, Mann […] is plunging back into the swim of business in a hurry.
swimnoun詞源 2
- 1
A dizziness; swoon.
swimverb詞源 2
- 1
To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.
- My head was swimming after drinking two bottles of cheap wine.
- She snatched the letter from Sir Jasper, who started as her icy hand touched his: she attempted to read the passage herself, but the letters seemed to swim before her gaze: they turned to fire; the paper dropped from her grasp; a thick mist appeared to gather over the room; she gave a convulsive shudder, and dropped on the floor perfectly insensible.
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。