核心畫面
You can picture the one thick, hard column standing in the middle of a tree: it comes straight up out of the ground, it does not split, and every branch and leaf hangs off it. That feeling of a single heavy main body that everything else is attached to runs under several of the meanings of trunk — though not all of them, and a few have to be learned on their own.
可以想成一棵樹中間那根又粗又硬的主柱：它從地面直直撐上來，自己不分岔，所有枝葉都掛在它身上。這種「粗大、單一、其他部…更多收起
可以想成一棵樹中間那根又粗又硬的主柱：它從地面直直撐上來，自己不分岔，所有枝葉都掛在它身上。這種「粗大、單一、其他部分都靠著它」的主幹感覺，是 trunk 好幾個意思共同的底色；但也有幾個意思接不回這個畫面，得單獨記。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。
Trunkname
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A surname from German.
trunknoun/tɹʌŋk/
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biologyheadingnatural-sciencesPart of a body.
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biologyheadingnatural-sciencesPart of a body.
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biologyheadingnatural-sciencesPart of a body.
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headingA container.
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.
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headingA container.
- To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and trunks
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automotiveheadingtransportA container.
- I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.
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automotiveheadingtransportA container.
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communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringA channel for flow of some kind.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
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headingA channel for flow of some kind.
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headingA channel for flow of some kind.
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archaicheadingA channel for flow of some kind.
- He shot Sugar Plums at them out of a Trunk.
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businessheadingminingA channel for flow of some kind.
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computingengineeringmathematicsIn software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
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The main line or body of anything.
- the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches
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transportThe main line or body of anything.
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architectureThe main line or body of anything.
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A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
trunkverb/tɹʌŋk/
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obsoleteTo lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
- Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke / Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riuen rocke.
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businessminingTo extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
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communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringTo provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
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。