核心畫面

Start with one small movement: something is turned upward. Hold the picture of a hand taking the end of a trouser leg and folding it back up — the piece that ends up facing you is the turn-up. Now keep the same movement but change what is being turned. Turn a card up off the pack and the face that was hidden is suddenly showing. Turn-up names the thing that has come up into view: sometimes a fold of cloth, sometimes a card, sometimes an event nobody knew was there.

可以想成一個很小的動作:有東西被往上翻起來。先看褲腳:一隻手把褲管的末端往上折回去,折起來朝著你的那一塊,就是 tu更多收起可以想成一個很小的動作:有東西被往上翻起來。先看褲腳:一隻手把褲管的末端往上折回去,折起來朝著你的那一塊,就是 turn-up。接著把動作留著,換一個被翻的東西。把牌從牌堆上翻起來,原本藏著的那一面就露出來了。turn-up 命名的,就是「被翻上來、因此看得見」的那個東西——有時候是一折布,有時候是一張牌,有時候是一件沒人知道會發生的事。

From the word’s history

The source records turn-up as a deverbal noun formed from the phrasal verb turn up, which is why every use still carries the movement of the verb.

資料記載 turn-up 是從動詞片語 turn up 變來的名詞。這正好對上核心畫面:每一個用法裡,那個「往上翻」的動作都還在。

Wiktionary entry 'turn-up' (etymology_text: 'Deverbal from turn up.') supplied in this batch's evidence packet

Two branches

折上來的那一塊布

最看得見、最好摸得到的那個用法:動作留在布上,結果就是褲腳那一折。

noun · B2

The bottom edge of a trouser leg that has been folded up on the outside, either to make the trousers shorter or because the style is meant to look that way.

褲腳的翻折

翻上來、被看見的東西

跟上一個家族共用同一個動作,只是被翻的東西不再是布。布翻上來,你摸得到那一折;牌或事情翻上來,你看到的是原本藏著的那一面。

noun · C1

In a card game, the card that is taken from the top of the pack and placed face up so that all the players can see it.

翻開的那張明牌

原始詞典資料5 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。

turn-upnoun

  • 1

    Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter.

    • Why does all this fluff accumulate in the turn-ups?
  • 2

    datedA fight or disturbance.

    • I was passable enough when I went with the tinker, though nothing to boast of then; but what with blowing the fire with my mouth when I was young, and spileing my complexion, and singeing my hair off, and swallering the smoke, and what with being nat’rally unfort’nate in the way of running against hot metal and marking myself by sich means, and what with having turn-ups with the tinker as I got older, almost whenever he was too far gone in drink—which was almost always—my beauty was queer, wery queer, even at that time.
  • 3

    card-gamesgamesThe next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.

    • I'll bet $10 that the next turn-up is an ace.
  • 4

    A stroke of good luck; something that appears unexpectedly; especially in turn up for the book.

    • Despondent settled down favourite, but ran badly, and the fielders had a fine turn up by the success of Carlton Spring, on whom Allsopp jumped off in front and stayed there.
    • I thought ‘now here's a turn up’, for I was not to know I would be invited to drinks every day for the next three years.
  • 5

    historicalA book, intended for children, with flaps that can be lifted to reveal underlying text or images.

    • Books with flaps which lifted up and down and known as "turn-ups" came about in 1795 and were listed in Laurie and Whittle's catalogue.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。