語言的用法
把「實際使用的情形」聚焦到語言上：語言也是被人「用」的東西，它的 usage 就是人們實際怎麼挑字、怎麼組句。
how words are used · noun · C1
The way that words are really used in a language — which words people pick and how they put them together.
用法／慣用法
核心畫面
Think of usage as the real, pattern of how much something gets used and in what way — not the rulebook, but what actually happens when people use it.
可以想成：usage 是「實際用起來的情形」——某樣東西被用了多少、怎麼用，是看得見、量得到的真實使用模式，而不是規…更多收起
可以想成：usage 是「實際用起來的情形」——某樣東西被用了多少、怎麼用，是看得見、量得到的真實使用模式，而不是規則書上的規定。核心畫面比較像「實地使用的樣子與多寡」。From the picture
Also in this word
amount or way used · noun · C1
How much of something is used, or the way it is used.
使用量／用量
原始詞典資料6 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。
usagenoun/ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
Habit, practice.
- [S]everal young people sung sacred music in the churchyard at night, which it seems is an usage here.
- Mrs. Wickam, agreeably to the usage of some ladies in her condition, pursued […] the subject, without any compunction.
- 2
Habit, practice.
- 3
Utilization.
- Demand continues to increase, and in 2023-24 recorded usage was higher than pre-COVID, with 384,000 passenger journeys in total (of which 247,000 were at the town location). At the other end of the branch, Truro station had usage of 1.19 million, of which 255,000 were recorded as interchange passengers.
- 4
Utilization.
- In descriptive fact, word senses are established by usage.
- The years roll by as they always do, and more examples of pIqaD usage for Klingon have been coming to light. Does this still not count as usage?
- 5
Utilization.
- usage prescriptions
- In prescriptive ideal, writers will optimize their usage.
- 6
archaicUtilization.
- Whose sharp provokement them incenst so sore, / That both were bent t'avenge his usage base […]
- Satisfy a child by a constant course of your care and kindness, that you perfectly love him, and he may by degrees be accustom'd to bear very painful and rough usage from you, without flinching or complaining
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。