喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture table as 'a flat top held up so you can lay things out on it'. The first picture is the furniture — a flat board on legs you sit at and put things on. From that flat surface two threads grow: one stays physical (the table, the games table, the people sitting round it), and one becomes abstract — when you lay numbers out in rows on the flat of a page you get a 'table' of figures, and when you lay a proposal out in front of everyone you 'put it on the table' to be discussed.

可以想成「一塊被架起來的平面，好讓你把東西攤在上面」。最初的畫面比較像那件家具——四隻腳撐起一塊平板，你坐在旁邊、把…更多收起可以想成「一塊被架起來的平面，好讓你把東西攤在上面」。最初的畫面比較像那件家具——四隻腳撐起一塊平板，你坐在旁邊、把東西放上去。從這塊平面長出兩條線：一條留在實體（餐桌、球桌、圍桌的一群人），另一條變抽象——把數字整整齊齊排在紙的平面上，就成了「表格」；把一個提案攤在大家面前，就是 put it on the table 拿出來討論。

原始詞典資料30 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。

tablenoun/ˈteɪbl̩/

  • 1

    Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

    • Set that dish on the table over there, please.
    • He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
  • 2

    Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

  • 3

    Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

  • 4

    Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

    • The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.
  • 5

    Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

  • 6

    Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

  • 7

    backgammongamesFurniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

  • 8

    Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.

另外 12 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.

    • Alas poore Yorick […] VVhere be your Jibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flaſhes of Merriment that were wont to ſet the Table on a Rore?
    • The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
  • 10

    card-gamespokerA group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.

    • That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event.
  • 11

    A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.

  • 12

    A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.

    • Table 9 wants another round of beers.
    • John always gets the best tips because he gets the best tables! It's not fair!
  • 13

    A two-dimensional presentation of data.

    • I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order … And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered tabulation. Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables … Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
  • 14

    A two-dimensional presentation of data.

    • The children were practising multiplication tables.
    • Don’t you know your tables?
  • 15

    computingdatabasesengineeringA two-dimensional presentation of data.

  • 16

    hobbieslifestylesportsA two-dimensional presentation of data.

    • On this evidence they will certainly face tougher tests, as a depleted Newcastle side seemed to bask in the relative security of being ninth in the table.
  • 17

    entertainmentlifestylemusicThe top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.

  • 18

    The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.

  • 19

    A flat gravestone supported on pillars.

  • 20

    obsoletebiblicallifestylereligionA writing tablet.

tableverb/ˈteɪbl̩/

  • 1

    To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.

    • to table fines
  • 2

    archaicTo supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.

    • 'April 13 1638, Henry Wotton, letter to John Milton At Siena I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipioni
  • 3

    obsoleteTo delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.

    • c. 1607, Francis Bacon, letter to Tobie Matthew tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation
  • 4

    To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.

    • In a raucous Commons, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, confirmed he had tabled a formal motion of confidence in the government, backed by other opposition leaders, which MPs would vote on on Wednesday.
  • 5

    To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).

    • The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.
    • The motion was tabled, ensuring that it would not be taken up until a later date.
  • 6

    To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.

  • 7

    obsoletebusinesscarpentryconstructionTo join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.

  • 8

    To put on a table.

    • 1833 Thomas Carlyle, letter to his Mother, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson [A]fter some clatter offered us a rent of five pounds for the right to shoot here, and even tabled the cash that moment, and would not pocket it again.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    card-gamespokerTo show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.

  • 10

    nauticaltransportTo make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.

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。