核心畫面
You can think of used as the mark left on something after it has gone through being used — it has a history behind it. From there it splits two ways: a thing that has already been used by someone (so it is not new), and a person who has been put through an experience so often that it no longer feels strange.
可以把 used 想成「已經被用過、身上留著痕跡」的那個狀態：它背後有一段被使用的歷史。從這個底圖分成兩條路——一條…更多收起
可以把 used 想成「已經被用過、身上留著痕跡」的那個狀態：它背後有一段被使用的歷史。從這個底圖分成兩條路——一條講「東西」：被人用過了，所以不是全新的；另一條講「人」：一件事經歷得夠多次，於是不再覺得陌生。兩條都從「經過了使用、留下了痕跡」這個畫面長出來。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。
usedverb/juːzd/
- 1
In used to.
usedadj/juːzd/
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That is or has or have been used.
- The ground was littered with used syringes left behind by drug abusers.
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
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That has or have previously been owned by someone else.
- He bought a used car.
- 3
In used to.
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。