喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture want as a felt gap between you and something — there's a thing you don't have (or haven't done), and you lean toward closing that gap.

可以想成 want 的核心比較像「你和某樣東西之間有一道空缺」：那樣東西此刻不在你手上，而你心裡朝著它傾過去，想把這…更多收起可以想成 want 的核心比較像「你和某樣東西之間有一道空缺」：那樣東西此刻不在你手上，而你心裡朝著它傾過去，想把這道空缺補起來。從這個「缺口＋想補上」的畫面出發，往一邊偏就是『我想要』（傾向很強），往另一邊偏就是『缺少／不足』（缺口被當成事實本身）。英語裡這兩支其實是同一個畫面的一體兩面。

原始詞典資料19 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。

Wantname

  • 1

    A personification of want.

wantverb詞源 1/wɒnt/

  • 1

    To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.

    • I want you as a friend, not a foe.
    • What do you want to eat?  I want you to leave.  I never wanted to go back to live with my mother.
  • 2

    To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.

    • The game developers of Candy Crush want you to waste large, copious amounts of your money on in-game purchases to buy boosters and lives.
    • Depression wants you to feel like the world is dark and that you are not worthy of happiness. The first step to making your life better from this day forward is to stop believing these lies.
  • 3

    To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.

    • Ma’am, you are exactly the professional we want for this job.
    • Danish police want him for embezzlement.
  • 4

    To desire (to experience desire); to wish.

    • You can leave if you want.
    • TYRION: You don't want it? BRAN: I don't really want anymore.
  • 5

    To be advised to do or aim for something (compare should, ought).

    • You’ll want to repeat this three or four times to get the best result.
  • 6

    To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).

    • The lady, it is said, will inherit a fortune of three hundred pounds a year, with two cool thousands left by an uncle, on her arriving at the age of twenty-one, of which she wants but a few months.
    • Oh Jeanie, it will be hard, after every thing is ready for our happiness, if we should be sundered. It wants but a few days o' Martinmas, and then I maun enter on my new service on Loch Rannoch, where a bonny shieling is ready ...
  • 7

    archaicTo have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.

    • Man wants but little, nor that little long.
    • Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.
  • 8

    datedTo be lacking or deficient or absent.

    • There was something wanting in the play.
    • They of the Citie fought valiantly with Engines, Darts, Arrows: and when Stones wanted, they threw Silver, especially molten silver.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    datedTo be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.

    • You have a gift, sir (thank your education), / Will never let you want.
    • The paupers desperately want.
  • 10

    archaicTo lack and be without, to not have (something).

    • he that hath skill to be a pilot wants a ship; and he that could govern a commonwealth[…]wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage.
    • I observed […] that your whip wanted a lash to it.
  • 11

    obsoleteTo lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.

    • […] which the Kings of Assyria had left for the maintenance of this Temple sacrifices, after the ouerthrow thereof, was shared among the Chaldzans; which they by this attempt were like to lose, and therefore were willing to want his presence.
    • 1789 Robert Burns: Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary The Devil got notice that Grose was a-dying So whip! at the summons, old Satan came flying; But when he approached where poor Francis lay moaning, And saw each bed-post with its burthen a-groaning, Astonish'd, confounded, cries Satan-"By God, I'll want him, ere I take such a damnable load!"
  • 12

    To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.

    • Dang, girl! Your brother is gorgeous! I want him so bad!
    • Don't, don't you want me? / You know I can't believe it when I hear that you won't see me / Don't, don't you want me? / You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me

wantnoun詞源 1/wɒnt/

  • 1

    A desire, wish, longing.

    • After a search which produced most of the things on our wants list, we went down to picnic on the shore in the sunshine-with a good stretch of shingle behind us over which no triffid could approach unheard.
  • 2

    Lack, absence, deficiency.

    • She showed a want of caution in renting her house to complete strangers.
    • [H]eavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.
  • 3

    Poverty.

    • Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.
  • 4

    Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.

    • Habitual superfluities become actual wants.
  • 5

    businessminingA depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

wantnoun詞源 2/wɒnt/

  • 1

    dialectalA mole (Talpa europea).

    • Lic. She hath the ears of a want. / Pec. Doth she want ears?

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。