核心畫面

You can picture teach as one person handing knowledge across to another: I hold something in my head — facts, a skill, a way of seeing — and I pass it over so it ends up in yours. There's a giver, a receiver, and something that crosses the gap between them. Every other meaning is just a different thing being passed across, or a different teacher doing the passing — sometimes a person, sometimes life itself.

可以把 teach 想成一個人把腦袋裡的東西「遞」到另一個人腦袋裡:我這邊有一樣東西——知識、一門技術、一種看事情的更多收起可以把 teach 想成一個人把腦袋裡的東西「遞」到另一個人腦袋裡:我這邊有一樣東西——知識、一門技術、一種看事情的方式——我把它交過去,讓它落到你那邊。畫面裡有個給的人、有個接的人,還有那樣『跨過中間這段距離』的東西。後面所有意思都是這個畫面的變形:要嘛遞過去的東西換了,要嘛遞東西的『老師』換了——有時是人,有時根本是人生本身在教你。

Five branches

把知識與本事遞過去

這一家最貼著核心:一個人主動把懂的東西交給另一個人,不管是在課堂上講課,還是手把手示範一個動作。

give lessons · verb · A1

To give lessons in a school or college, or to help someone learn about something by giving them information.

教;教書

把做人的道理與看法遞過去

遞過去的東西再抽象一層:不是某科知識,也不是某個動作,而是『該怎麼做人、該信什麼』這種看法。一樣是把腦袋裡的東西交給別人,只是這次交的是價值觀。

teach how to behave · verb · A1

To show someone how to behave or what to believe.

教導(做人道理)

人生當老師

這一家換的是『老師』:站在前面遞東西的不再是人,而是一段經歷、一件事。沒有人開口講課,可是事情過後你懂了某個道理——等於人生親手把它遞給了你。

make you understand (life lesson) · verb · A1

An experience or situation can leave you understanding something new about life.

(經驗)讓人學到

用教訓收場

這一家走到帶刺的一邊:既然壞結果會讓人『學到』別再犯,人們就半開玩笑地把那個苦頭講成是在『教』你。遞過去的不再是知識,而是一頓教訓。

teach somebody a lesson · verb · A1

Used in 'teach somebody a lesson' to mean to punish someone so they will not do a bad thing again.

給某人教訓

現成的成語

這一家是兩句固定的俗語,整句一起記就好。它們都用到『教/學』的畫面,但意思已經包在整句裡,不能拆開來逐字理解。

you can't teach an old dog new tricks · verb · A1

Used in the saying 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks' to say that older people often do not want to change their ways.

老狗學不了新把戲

原始詞典資料8 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。

Teachname詞源 1/ˈtiːt͡ʃ/

  • 1

    slangNickname for a teacher.

    • I'm not in trouble again, am I, Teach?

Teachname詞源 2/ˈtiːt͡ʃ/

  • 1

    A surname. Most commonly associated with the pirate Blackbeard, who gave his real name as Edward Teach, Thatch, or Tack.

teachverb詞源 1/ˈtiːt͡ʃ/

  • 1

    To pass on knowledge to.

    • Can you teach me to sew?  Can you teach sewing to me?
  • 2

    To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.

    • She used to teach at university.
  • 3

    To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).

    • 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;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
    • Deep Blue taught us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them.
  • 4

    To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.

    • I'll teach you to make fun of me!
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    obsoleteTo show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.

    • ‘The bliss is there’, mumbled the old man and taught to Heaven.
    • c1450, Mandeville's Travelsː Blessed God of might (the) most.. teach us the right way unto that bliss that lasteth aye.

teachnoun詞源 2/ˈtiːt͡ʃ/

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    informalteacher

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。