核心畫面

Picture something pressing against your back, pushing you to move now: this cannot sit and wait. The word can sit on the matter itself — the leak, the letter, the operation — or on the voice of the person telling you about it, where the same pressure comes out as tone.

可以想成:有東西在背後推著你,逼你現在就動——這件事沒辦法放著等。這個字可以貼在事情本身(漏水、那封信、那台手術),更多收起可以想成:有東西在背後推著你,逼你現在就動——這件事沒辦法放著等。這個字可以貼在事情本身(漏水、那封信、那台手術),也可以貼在講這件事的人身上:同樣的壓力,這時候變成了語氣。所以一句話可以是 an urgent matter,也可以是 an urgent whisper。

原始詞典資料2 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。

urgentadj/ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/

  • 1

    Requiring immediate attention.

    • An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
  • 2

    Of people: insistent, solicitous.

    • The Egyptians were vrgent vpon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.
    • My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay […].

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