盛裝的容器（核心）
這就是核心本身：一個能把液體或東西裝在裡面的中空物件。
a vessel (container) · noun · C1
A container, such as a bowl, cup, or pot, used for holding liquids.
容器／器皿
核心畫面
You can picture vessel as a hollow thing made to hold something — a bowl, cup or pot with liquid inside. Even though 'ship' is the most common use today, the container is the original picture the others grow from.
可以想成一個中空、專門用來盛裝東西的物件——碗、杯、罐子，裡面裝著液體。雖然今天最常見的意思是「船」，但「容器」才是…更多收起
可以想成一個中空、專門用來盛裝東西的物件——碗、杯、罐子，裡面裝著液體。雖然今天最常見的意思是「船」，但「容器」才是最原始的畫面：船和血管，其實都是這個「能裝、能載東西的中空體」延伸出去的。From the word’s history
From Latin 'vas' (container), via its diminutive 'vascellum' and Old French 'vaissel'; the 'ship' and 'blood vessel' senses are later extensions of that one 'holding container' picture.
來自拉丁文 vas（容器），經由小稱形 vascellum、古法文 vaissel 進入英文——所以這個字的根本畫面比較像「盛裝的容器」。船的意思是傳入英文的路上才加上的，血管（身體裡的管道）則在十四世紀晚期出現，都是同一個「中空能盛裝」核心的延伸。
etymonline.com/word/vessel (Latin vas → vascellum → Old French vaissel; 'ship' sense acquired en route, anatomical sense from late 14c.)
Three branches
載人載貨的船
船其實就是一個放大的容器：一個中空的殼浮在水上，把人和貨物盛裝、載送過水面。從「盛裝」到「盛裝著漂浮運送」，是同一個畫面的延伸。
vessel (ship) · noun · B2
A ship or large boat, especially one used to carry people or goods across water.
船／船艦
身體裡的血管
血管是身體內部的容器：細細的管子，盛著並輸送血液。從一個靜止盛裝的碗，變成一條讓液體流過的管道，仍然是「盛裝液體」這個核心。
blood vessel · noun · B2
One of the thin tubes in your body that blood flows through.
血管
原始詞典資料7 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。
vesselnoun/ˈvɛsəl/
- 1
nauticaltransportA craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.
- But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.
- Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, […] naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several states on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.
- 2
A craft for transportation on or in water, air, or space.
- Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from passenger shuttles to mobile space stations.
- 3
obsoletedialectalDishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.
- All his Vessell was of golde and siluer, pottis, basons, ewers, dysshes, flagons, barels, cuppes, and all other thyngis.
- 4
A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- 5
A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
- A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.
- But the Lord said vnto him, Goe thy way: for hee is a chosen vessell vnto me, to beare my Name before the Gentiles, and Kings, and the children of Israel.
- 6
biologynatural-sciencesA tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
- Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.
vesselverb/ˈvɛsəl/
- 1
To put into a vessel.
- 1577, William Harrison, The Description of England in Holinshed’s Chronicles, Volume 1, Book 3, Chapter 12 “Of venemous beastes &c.,” Our hony alſo is taken and reputed to be the beſt bycauſe it is harder, better wrought & clenlyer veſſelled vp, thẽ that which cõmeth from beyond the ſea, where they ſtampe and ſtraine their combes, Bées, & young Blow|inges altogither into the ſtuffe, as I haue béene informed.
- 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or, A Naturall Historie, London: W. Lee, Cent. VI, section 529, p. 137, The fourth Rule ſhall be, to marke what Herbs, ſome Earths doe put fourth of themſelves; And to take that Earth, and to Pot it, or to Veſſell it; And in that to ſet the Seed you would change […]
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。