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/ˈswɪmɪŋ/
The activity or sport of moving through water using your arms and legs.
游泳
核心畫面
Picture moving yourself through water with your arms and legs — and then picture that whole thing treated as one item you can talk about. It is not a single act of swimming but the activity itself, which is why it fits in 'I like swimming', 'swimming lessons' and 'go swimming'. Chinese uses one word for both the act and the activity; English uses the -ing form to package the act as a thing.
swimming 可以想成「人在水裡靠手腳把自己送出去」的那件事被整個當成一樣東西來講。它不是某一次游泳的動作，而是…更多收起
swimming 可以想成「人在水裡靠手腳把自己送出去」的那件事被整個當成一樣東西來講。它不是某一次游泳的動作，而是這項活動本身——所以可以說 I like swimming（我喜歡游泳）、swimming lessons（游泳課）、go swimming（去游泳）。中文的「游泳」一個詞就同時是動作和活動，英文則要靠 -ing 這個形式把動作打包成名詞。原始詞典資料3 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。
swimmingnoun詞源 1/ˈswɪmɪŋ/
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The act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water.
- Triathlon competitors take part in open water swimming.
- The daring adventures of the American people in their scalings of the Alps and the Rocky mountains and in their swimmings across the Niagara rapids […]
swimmingnoun詞源 2/ˈswɪmɪŋ/
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The state of being dizzy or in vertigo.
- Then I take my pipe of Tabacco, sitting close by a warme fire, the space of halfe an houre and more, vntill the giddinesse and swimming in my head be past, and the medicine also haue done it feate : then I vse to gargle my mouth with a cuppe of beere, well warmed with a toste.
- But when the worms are killed with the aforesaid medicines, you must driue them out without delay : for there proceedeth a vicious exhalation from them, which both destroyeth appetite, and hurteth digestion, and being lifted vpward, it causeth swimmings, and other euils.
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。