喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture one long burst of hard, repeated hitting: a stick or a hand coming down again and again, and the thing underneath jerking about with every blow. Everything this noun does can be seen inside that one picture. Look at the hand and you get a beating. Look at what is being hit and you get wild, movement. Look at a match where one side is hit again and again and never recovers, and you get a crushing defeat.

可以想成一連串停不下來的猛打：手或棍子一下接一下落下，底下的東西每挨一下就彈一次。這個名詞的各種用法，都能在這一個畫…更多收起可以想成一連串停不下來的猛打：手或棍子一下接一下落下，底下的東西每挨一下就彈一次。這個名詞的各種用法，都能在這一個畫面裡找到位置。看動手的那一邊，就是「打一頓」。看挨打的那一邊，就是「亂甩亂動」。看一場一方被打到爬不起來的比賽，就是「慘敗」。要注意的是，這是一個方便記憶的角度，不是在講字源。

Three branches

挨一頓打

最貼近核心畫面的一支：動手的人、挨打的人、以及「這是處罰」的理由，三件事都在句子裡。

noun · B2

An occasion when someone is hit hard and many times, usually as a punishment.

毒打一頓

亂甩、瞎忙

把鏡頭從動手的那一邊轉到挨打的那一邊：只剩下那個又猛又亂、自己停不下來的動作。

noun · B2

Wild, uncontrolled movement, when a person, an animal, or something long and loose keeps swinging or beating from side to side.

劇烈的擺動；亂甩亂動

比賽被打爆

把球場當成挨打的那一方：分數一分接一分地落下，輸的一方從頭到尾沒機會站穩。

noun · B2

A game or match that one side loses very badly, or wins very easily.

慘敗；痛宰

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。

thrashingnoun/ˈθɹæʃɪŋ/

  • 1

    Action of the verb to thrash.

    • the thrashings of a fish on a hook
  • 2

    A beating, especially a severe one.

  • 3

    slangA heavy defeat.

    • Now Hodgson just has to work out a makeshift forward line against a Ukraine team who warmed up for Tuesday by doling out the obligatory thrashing to San Marino, knocking in four goals by half-time and another five in the second half.
  • 4

    computingengineeringmathematicsExcessive paging within virtual storage.

  • 5

    dancedancinghobbiesSlam dancing.

  • 6

    Threshing. (of cereal crop, etc)

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。