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Picture a scatter of dots on a chart — prices, temperatures, how many people bought something each month. Any single dot jumps around, but step back and you can draw one line through them all showing which way things are heading. That line, the general direction over time, is the picture inside trend.

可以想成：圖表上一堆上上下下的點——每個月的價格、氣溫、銷量。單看一個點看不出什麼，退後幾步卻能在中間畫出一條線，看…更多收起可以想成：圖表上一堆上上下下的點——每個月的價格、氣溫、銷量。單看一個點看不出什麼，退後幾步卻能在中間畫出一條線，看出整體往哪邊走。trend 的畫面比較像那條線：不是某一天發生什麼，而是一段時間下來的走向。從這裡再走一步，如果很多人的行為同時往同一個方向倒，那條線就變成了「流行」。

From the picture

很多人同時在追的流行

當那條「大家的行為線」在短時間內同時往一個方向倒，走向就被感覺成流行：不是數字在動，是人在跟。

trend online · verb · B1

If a topic is trending on the internet, many people are searching for it or posting about it at the same time.

爆紅、上熱搜

Also in this word

general trend · noun · B1

The general way that a situation is changing or developing over time.

趨勢

shift up or down · verb · B1

If an amount is trending up or down, it is slowly moving higher or lower over time.

呈…走勢

原始詞典資料16 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。

Trendname

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A town in Vesthimmerland Municipality, North Jutland, Denmark.

trendnoun詞源 1/tɹɛnd/

  • 1

    An inclination in a particular direction.

    • Her trend is to dump boyfriends when it gets serious.
    • the upward trend of stock-market prices
  • 2

    A tendency.

    • There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.
  • 3

    A fad or fashion style.

    • Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1960s.
    • To stay on top of what's happening, a good photographer has to follow the trends by watching what's being done in fashion magazines.
  • 4

    An innovation, or a development of innovations.

    • New trends in AI research are resulting in new opportunities.
  • 5

    A general development over distance.

    • The trend of the boundary goes around the mountains.
  • 6

    mathematicssciencesA line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points; the shift over time represented by such a curve on a graph.

  • 7

    nauticaltransportThe lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill.

  • 8

    nauticaltransportThe angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangSynonym of street takeover

trendverb詞源 1/tɹɛnd/

  • 1

    To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.

    • The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
    • Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off.
  • 2

    To cause to turn; to bend.

    • Not farre beneath i' the Valley as ſhe trends / Her ſiluer ſtreame, ſome VVood-nymphs and her friends / That follovv'd to her aide, beholding hovv / The Brooke came gliding, […]
  • 3

    informalTo be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.

    • What topics have been trending on social networks this week?
    • "Puppy Bowl" was even a trending sports topic on Facebook.

trendnoun詞源 2/tɹɛnd/

  • 1

    dateddialectalClean wool.

trendverb詞源 2/tɹɛnd/

  • 1

    To cleanse or clean (something, usually wool).

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。