- 1涉水而行；（引申）費力地讀完、處理完（一大堆東西）
To walk through water that is not deep — a river, a pool, the shallow sea at the edge of a beach. The key idea is that the water pushes back, so walking is slow and heavy: 'They waded across the stream.' It usually comes with a word telling you where: wade in, wade out, wade across, wade through.
English then takes that feeling and uses it for other slow, heavy work. 'Wade through' is very common for reading or dealing with a large boring amount of something: 'I spent all morning wading through emails.' It always carries the sense of effort and dullness.
There is also 'wade in', which means to join a fight or an argument suddenly and — 'he waded in with his own opinion' — and 'wade into', similar. These feel bold, sometimes too bold.
As a noun it is rare, but you will hear 'go for a wade' at the beach. Related words you will meet: 'waders' (tall waterproof boots for standing in rivers), and 'wading pool', the American name for a shallow pool for small children (British: pool).
From the word’s history
From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadaną 'to go, pass through'; cognate with German waten.
源自古英文 wadan「走過、穿過」，和德文 waten「涉水」同源。
組成From Old English wadan, from an old root meaning simply 'to go, to pass through'. Latin vādō ('I go, I walk') comes from the same ancient root — which is why the water meaning is really a narrowing of a much older 'go through' meaning.
原始詞典資料16 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Wadename/weɪd/
- 1
A topographic surname from Old English.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
- In due time, Charles' son was born and, because it was fashionable to name boys after their fathers' commanding officers, he was called Wade Hampton Hamilton.
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A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.
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wadeverb詞源 1/weɪd/
- 1
To walk through water or something that impedes progress.
- So eagerly the fiend […] / With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
- After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.
- 2
To progress with difficulty.
- to wade through a dull book
- And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
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To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading.
- wading swamps and rivers
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To gleam intermittently through clouds or mist.
- I saw my Meg come linking o'er the lee; I saw my Meg, but Maggy saw nae me: For yet the sun was wading through the mist, And she was close upon me ere she wist.
- ... the pale light of a crescent moon wading among the black and lowering clouds.
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To enter recklessly.
- to wade into a fight or a debate
- The champ [Alekhine] seems to reel and stagger helplessly. It's an old gag because a blind man can see he ain't glassy-eyed a-tall—but Rodzinsky wades in. 10.QxR
wadenoun詞源 1/weɪd/
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An act of wading.
- We had to be careful during our dangerous wade across the river.
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A ford; a place to cross a river.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- woad
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。