核心畫面
You can picture thin as 'very little of it across' — only a small distance from one side to the other, or only a small amount packed into a space. A sheet of paper, a thread, a wisp of smoke: barely anything between the two sides. From that one picture, thin spreads to bodies, hair, liquids, air, crowds, even arguments — wherever there is 'not much of it there'.
可以想成「橫過去只有一點點」的畫面:兩個面之間距離很短,或一個空間裡的量很少。一張紙、一條線、一縷煙——中間幾乎沒什…更多收起
可以想成「橫過去只有一點點」的畫面:兩個面之間距離很短,或一個空間裡的量很少。一張紙、一條線、一縷煙——中間幾乎沒什麼料。thin 的核心比較像這個「不多、不滿」。從這一個畫面出發,它可以講身體、頭髮、液體、空氣、人群,甚至一個理由——只要那裡「料很少」,就是 thin。原始詞典資料17 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。
thinadj/ˈθɪn/
- 1
Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
- thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering
- It was no mystery at all, or a mystery covered only with the thinnest and most transparent veil, that forced abortion is a common practice among Turkish women. The horrible secret as to the means and the drugs to be employed is pretty generally known, and where ignorance prevails there are "wise women," old hags, professional abortists, who go about the country relieving matrons of their burthens for a few piastres apiece […]
- 2
Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
- thin wire; thin string
- Typically, osteoporosis causes the amount of trabecular bone to be reduced and the bone to become thinner, while the intertrabecular space enlarges and the interconnected structure of trabecular bone is disrupted.
- 3
Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
- thin person
- 4
Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.
- Water is thinner than honey.
- 5
Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
- The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
- Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people.
- 6
golfhobbieslifestyleDescribing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
- 7
Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- a thin, tight-lipped smile
- thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams
- 8
Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
- a thin disguise
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationOf a route: relatively little used.
- In short, we previously found that thin routes benefit from an increase in competition in the Spanish airline market when considering routes that were monopoly routes in 2001.
- 10
Poor; scanty; without money or success.
- Like their friends the "draggers," the "hoisters" or shoplifters are having a thin time these days, […]
thinnoun/ˈθɪn/
- 1
hobbieslifestylephilatelyA loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
- 2
Any food produced or served in thin slices.
- chocolate mint thins
- potato thins
thinverb/ˈθɪn/
- 1
To make thin or thinner.
- Exhausted fathers thinned the blood, You curse the legacy of pain; Darling of an infected brood, You feel disaster climb the vein.
- 2
To become thin or thinner.
- The crowds thinned after the procession had passed: there was nothing more to see.
- 3
To dilute.
- 4
To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
- So floriferous are Asian pears, and the tree so laden with young fruit, that as the tree approaches maturity it is worth considering thinning the fruit (I can't quite bring myself to thin the flowers) so as to neither overburden the tree for this year nor tire it for the next. Thinning early in the season, while the fruit is small, is ideal.
thinadv/ˈθɪn/
- 1
Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
- seed sown thin
- Spain is a nation thin sown of people.
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。