喜樂美語

核心畫面

Think of the gap between the two faces of something being large — a thick book, a thick wall. From that 'lots of stuff packed between the two sides' come two branches: things packed close together (a thick forest, thick fog), and a person whose mind seems too 'dense' to let ideas through.

可以想成「一個東西兩面之間的距離很大、塞得很滿」——厚厚的書、厚厚的牆。從這個「兩面之間塞了很多」的畫面，長出兩條線…更多收起可以想成「一個東西兩面之間的距離很大、塞得很滿」——厚厚的書、厚厚的牆。從這個「兩面之間塞了很多」的畫面，長出兩條線：一條是東西彼此擠得很密（密林、濃霧、濃湯），另一條是把「太密、透不過去」用在腦袋上，形容人反應遲鈍。

原始詞典資料22 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。

thickadj/θɪk/

  • 1

    Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

    • The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.
    • The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].
  • 2

    Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.

    • I want some planks that are two inches thick.
  • 3

    Heavy in build; thickset.

    • He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.
    • As she twirled around in front of the mirror admiring how the dress showed off her thick booty, she felt like a princess in a children's storybook.
  • 4

    Densely crowded or packed.

    • My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
    • We walked through thick undergrowth.
  • 5

    Having a viscous consistency.

    • My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.
  • 6

    Abounding in number.

    • The room was thick with reporters.
    • Seashells lay thick on the beach.
  • 7

    Impenetrable to sight.

    • We drove through thick fog.
  • 8

    Prominent, strong.

    • He answered me in his characteristically thick Creole patois.
另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Prominent, strong.

    • We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent.
  • 10

    informalStupid.

    • He was as thick as two short planks.
  • 11

    informalFriendly or intimate.

    • They were as thick as thieves.
    • Jem is a tall, good-looking fellow, as old as I am, and that's twenty-one last birthday; we came into the office together years ago, and have been very thick ever since
  • 12

    Deep, intense, or profound.

    • Thick darkness.
  • 13

    literaryDetailed and expansive; substantive.

    • Thick prehistory also is interested in a much broader array of topics than the perennial sociological concern for how individuals relate to the collective and how social continuity and change occur in light of that relationship; thick prehistory addresses the social, biological, and psychological person.
    • A thick theory, such as libertarianism or socialism, is not appropriate as the basis for a constitution in a pluralistic society in which the people hold differing views about the good (or justice).
  • 14

    datedTroublesome; unreasonable.

    • “Screaming headlines in every paper in the country—damn all journalists, I say! Do you know there was a whole crowd staring in at the lodge gates this morning. Sort of Madame Tussaud’s chamber of horrors business that can be seen for nothing. Pretty thick, isn’t it?”
    • "Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the '80s."
  • 15

    slangCurvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.

    • A word to the thick soul sistas, I want to get with ya

thickadv/θɪk/

  • 1

    In a thick manner.

    • Snow lay thick on the ground.
  • 2

    Frequently or numerously.

    • The arrows flew thick and fast around us.

thicknoun/θɪk/

  • 1

    The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.

    • It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
    • He through a little window cast his sight / Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.
  • 2

    A thicket.

    • gloomy thicks
    • Through the thicke they heard one rudely rush.
  • 3

    slangA stupid person; a fool.

    • If there was doctorates in bollocksology and scratching yourself in bed, the two of you'd be professors by now. Pair of loafing, idle thicks.

thickverb/θɪk/

  • 1

    archaicTo thicken.

    • A wicked ambush , which lay hidden long In the close covert of her guilful eyen, Thence breaking forth , did thick about me throng
    • The nightmare Life-in-death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.

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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。