核心畫面
You can picture 'thank' as turning toward someone and naming them as the source of something good you received — 'this good came from you, and I feel it.' That one move (pointing at the giver, feeling grateful) is the seed; every other use is that same gesture aimed somewhere new — at fate, at luck, or even turned sour into blame.
可以把 thank 想成「轉向某人，認定這份好處是他帶來的，而且我把這份感激說出來」——『這份好是你給的，我心裡有感…更多收起
可以把 thank 想成「轉向某人，認定這份好處是他帶來的，而且我把這份感激說出來」——『這份好是你給的，我心裡有感』。這個動作（指向給予者、心生感謝）是種子；其他用法都是同一個動作換個對象——指向命運、指向運氣，甚至反過來變成怪罪。原始詞典資料7 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。
thankverb詞源 2/ˈθæŋk/
- 1
To express appreciation or gratitude toward (someone or something).
- She thanked him for the lift.
- [H]aſt thou no ſhame to deſpiſe that perſone, to whom onely and no man els, thou art bounde to thanke, euen for this veraie pointe, that thou ſetteſt ſo moche by thy peinted ſheathe?
- 2
In the future tense in the form one will thank someone to do something, chiefly expressing a command or criticism: to request that (someone) do something.
- I’ll thank you not to smoke in my house!
- Our readers would not thank us for going into the badgerings which had for some time annoyed the chancellor on the subject of arrears in his court.
- 3
rareTo express appreciation or gratitude for (something).
- 4
To respond to (someone) out of, or as if out of, appreciation or gratitude.
- I should summon my lord from the Queen's royal presence to do your business, should I?—I were like to be thanked with a horse-whip.
- 5
Chiefly followed by for: to credit or hold (someone or something) responsible, especially for something negative; to blame.
- We can thank global warming for this freak weather.
- 6
obsoleteTo express gratitude.
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。