核心畫面
A small sharp-pointed nail or pin you press in to something lightly in place. That little tack is the loose anchor — but tack also carries a quite separate sailing picture (the angled course a boat takes against the wind) that grew its own life, so this word leans toward two centres rather than one.
可以想成一根頂端尖、頭扁平的小釘子,輕輕一按就把東西暫時固定住——這個「小釘子」是鬆鬆的總錨點。不過 tack 還帶…更多收起
可以想成一根頂端尖、頭扁平的小釘子,輕輕一按就把東西暫時固定住——這個「小釘子」是鬆鬆的總錨點。不過 tack 還帶著另一個相當獨立的航海畫面(帆船逆風時走的那條斜斜的航線),它自成一格。所以這個字其實偏向「兩個中心」,而不是全靠同一個畫面撐起來。原始詞典資料27 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。
Tackname
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A surname.
tacknoun詞源 1/tæk/
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A small nail with a flat head.
- A tough test for even the strongest climber, it was new to the Tour de France this year, but its debut will be remembered for the wrong reasons after one of those spectators scattered carpet tacks on the road and induced around 30 punctures among the group of riders including Bradley Wiggins, the Tour's overall leader, and his chief rivals.
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A thumbtack.
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businessmanufacturingsewingA loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
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nauticaltransportThe lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
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nauticaltransportA course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
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A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem.
- So stoutly held to tack by those near North-wales men;
- Maud Gonne’s letter about taking them off O’Connell street at night: disgrace to our Irish capital. Griffith’s paper is on the same tack now: an army rotten with venereal disease: overseas or halfseasover empire.
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nauticaltransportThe maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
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nauticaltransportThe distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
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nauticaltransportA rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
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Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
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businesschemistryconstructionThe stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- The laminate adhesive has very aggressive tack and is hard to move once in place.
- Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]
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Food generally; fare, especially of the hard bread or breadlike kind.
- Near-synonyms: biscuit, bread
- But if a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
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That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time.
- pay all taxes and subscribe tacks
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obsoleteConfidence; reliance.
- He should find[…]that there was tack in it, that it was solid silver, or silver that had strength in it.
tackverb詞源 2/tæk/
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To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a colored poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall.
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To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
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To weld with initial small welds to temporarily fasten in preparation for full welding.
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nauticaltransportTo maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
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nauticaltransportTo sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
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To add something as an extra item.
- to tack (something) onto (something)
- In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" by prescriptivist language scholars.
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Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
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obsoleteslangTo join in wedlock.
tacknoun詞源 3/tæk/
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A stain; a tache.
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obsoleteA peculiar flavour or taint.
- a musty tack
tacknoun詞源 4/tæk/
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That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
- For souvenirs – mostly outright tack and ethnicky textiles – try your bargaining skills at the shops and stalls on Binjiang Luand Zhengyang Jie, or the nightly street market spreading for about a block either side of Shanhu Bridge along Zhongshan Lu.
tacknoun詞源 5/tæk/
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lawA contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- In the Breadalbane papers, for example, there is a "tack" which was given by Sir John Campbell of Glenurchy to his "weil belouit" servant John M'Conoquhy V'Gregour, in the year 1530.
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。