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You can picture 'way' as a road under your feet — a path leading from where you are to where you want to be. Almost everything else grows from that one picture: the route becomes a direction, then a distance, then the 'route' you take to get a thing done (a method), then the 'route' a person takes through life (their manner). It is one of those words where a physical path quietly turns into mental and abstract ones.

可以把 way 想成腳下的一條路：一條從你所在之處、通往你想去之處的路徑。其餘幾乎所有用法都是從這個畫面長出來的——…更多收起可以把 way 想成腳下的一條路：一條從你所在之處、通往你想去之處的路徑。其餘幾乎所有用法都是從這個畫面長出來的——路收窄成方向，攤開成距離；搬進腦袋，就成了「達成一件事要走的路」（方法）；一個人長期慣走的那條路，就成了他的「做事方式」與性情。它是那種把實體的路，悄悄變成心理與抽象之路的字。

原始詞典資料28 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。

Wayname詞源 1

  • 1

    ChristianityChristianity.

    • But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
  • 2

    human-sciencesphilosophysciencesSynonym of Tao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way in which to live one's life.

Wayname詞源 2

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    An unincorporated community in Madison County, Mississippi, United States.

  • 3

    A hamlet in Minster parish, Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3265).

waynoun詞源 1/weɪ/

  • 1

    headingTo do with a place or places.

    • Do you know the way to the airport?  Come this way and I'll show you a shortcut.  It's a long way from here.
    • Twenty miles surely is a long way to walk.
  • 2

    headingTo do with a place or places.

    • We got into the cinema through the back way.
    • Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
  • 3

    headingTo do with a place or places.

    • If you're ever 'round this way, come over and visit me.
  • 4

    A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.

    • He's finally seen the error of his ways.
    • You're going about it the wrong way.  He's known for his quirky ways.  I don't like the way she looks at me.
  • 5

    A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.

  • 6

    A state or condition

    • When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.
  • 7

    headingPersonal interaction.

    • There's no way I'm going to clean up after you.
  • 8

    headingPersonal interaction.

    • My little sister always whines until she gets her way.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    lifestylepaganismreligionA tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.

    • To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)
  • 10

    nauticaltransportSpeed, progress, momentum.

    • Immediately afterwards, a quick and eager short dark man came into the room with so much way upon him that he was within a foot of Clennam before he could stop.
    • Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way.
  • 11

    A degree, an amount, a sense.

    • In a significant way, crocodiles and alligators are similar.
    • That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
  • 12

    Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.

    • Way to ruin the moment, guys.
    • Jimmy leaned forward holding his ear, the personification of naïveté, looking as young as a baby with his oh-so-innocent face. “Oh, way to get us busted, Jimmy,” Curt hissed under his breath.
  • 13

    The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.

    • By the time the Mauretania was ready for launching a total weight of 16,800 tons was standing in the berth, and this represented the heaviest weight that had ever been sent down the ways up to that time.
  • 14

    A guiding surface on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves; usually in pairs.

wayintj詞源 1/weɪ/

  • 1

    slangYes; it is true; it is possible.

    • - We searched the vehicle. It was clean, so we did the body cavity searches. - No way. - Way!
    • We repeated this ritual of “no way - way, no way - way” over the years.

wayverb詞源 1/weɪ/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo travel.

    • on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge[…].
    • Laötze says, “The Name that can be named is not the Eternal Name. The Way that can be wayed, is not the Eternal Way.” Infinite wisdom is beyond the human power to understand.

wayadv詞源 2/weɪ/

  • 1

    informalFar.

    • I used to live way over there.
    • The farmhouse is way down the bottom of the hill.
  • 2

    informalMuch, far, by a great degree.

    • I'm a way better singer than Emma.
    • I'm way too tired to do that.
  • 3

    slangVery.

    • I'm way tired.
    • String theory is way cool, except for the math.

wayadj詞源 2/weɪ/

  • 1

    informalExtreme, far

    • Sitting in the way back of the bus
    • some day in the way future me and @HowdyDuda are gonna have to come for a visit…

waynoun詞源 2/weɪ/

  • 1

    obsoleteartscraftsglassblowingA seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass containing 60 bunches.

waynoun詞源 3/weɪ/

  • 1

    The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.

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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。