核心畫面
You can picture 'use' as putting a tool, thing, or skill to work to get a result — picking something up and making it do a job for you. The verb is that action; the noun is the same action seen as a thing ('the using of it'), and from there grows 'what it's good for' (its purpose) and 'whether it's worth it' (its ).
可以想成「拿起一樣工具、東西或本事，讓它替你做事、達成目的」。動詞 use 就是這個『拿來用』的動作；名詞 use …更多收起
可以想成「拿起一樣工具、東西或本事，讓它替你做事、達成目的」。動詞 use 就是這個『拿來用』的動作；名詞 use 是把同一個動作當成一件事看（『使用這回事』），再往外長出『它能拿來做什麼』(用途) 和『它值不值、有沒有用』(有用性) 這兩條線。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。
usenoun詞源 1/juːs/
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The act of using.
- The use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations.
- […]long john underwear, heavy socks, rubber boots, thick flannel shirts, oilskins — it all wore and tore and sprung holes from the hard use of battling storm and bad weather.
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The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
- Heavy alcohol use (2.5 drinks per day or more) at any age is unhealthy and should be avoided.
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Usefulness, utility, benefit; purpose, point.
- Near-synonyms: meaning, meaningfulness
- What's the use of a law that nobody follows?
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A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
- This tool has many uses.
- The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.
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Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
- I have no further use for these textbooks.
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obsoleterareInterest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
- DON PEDRO. Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE. Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for a single one: [...]
- Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him.
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archaicContinued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
- Let later age that noble vse enuie,
- How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, / Seem to me all the uses of this world!
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obsoleteCommon occurrence; ordinary experience.
- O Caesar! these things are beyond all use.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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ChristianityA special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese.
- the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the York use; the Ordinariate use
- From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use.
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A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
useverb詞源 2/juːz/
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To utilize or employ.
- Use this knife to slice the bread.
- We can use this mathematical formula to solve the problem.
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To utilize or employ.
- I used the money they allotted me.
- We should use up most of the fuel.
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To utilize or employ.
- You never cared about me; you just used me!
- Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
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To utilize or employ.
- He uses cocaine.
- I have never used drugs.
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To utilize or employ.
- Richard began experimenting with cocaine last year; now he uses almost every day.
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To utilize or employ.
- I could use a drink.
- My car could use a new coat of paint.
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To utilize or employ.
- I use they/them pronouns.
- The "Older" [butch] group is maintained by three administrators who all use she/her pronouns and two moderators, one of whom uses they'them pronouns while the other uses she/her.
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To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
- soldiers who are used to hardships and danger
- to use the soldiers to hardships and danger
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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obsoleteTo accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
- It is not without some difficulty, that a man born in society can form an idea of such savages, and their condition; and unless he has used himself to abstract thinking, he can hardly represent to himself such a state of simplicity, in which man can have so few desires, and no appetites roving beyond the immediate call of untaught nature […]
- 1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London: S. Richardson, 4th edition, Volume 3, Letter 12, p. 53, So that reading constantly, and thus using yourself to write, and enjoying besides the Benefit of a good Memory, every thing you heard or read, became your own […]
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To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
- I used to get things done.
- Peter Pol, doctor in divinitie used to sit upon his mule, who as Monstrelet reporteth, was wont to ride up and downe the streets of Paris, ever sitting sideling, as women use.
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datedTo behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
- to use an animal cruelly
- See who it is: and, now the battle’s ended, If friend or foe, let him be gently used.
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obsoleteTo behave, act, comport oneself.
- 1551, Thomas More, Utopia, London: B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, 1639, “Of Bond-men, Sicke persons, Wedlocke, and divers other matters,” page 231, They live together lovingly: For no Magistrate is either haughty or fearefull. Fathers they be called, and like fathers they use themselves.
- c. 1558, George Cavendish, The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey, cardinal, edited by Grace H. M. Simpson, London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1901, page 57, I pray to God that this may be a sufficient admonition unto thee to use thyself more wisely hereafter, for assure thyself that if thou dost not amend thy prodigality, thou wilt be the last Earl of our house.
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。