喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a thing you pick up when you have to fight — a sword, a gun, a bomb. What makes it a weapon is not what it is made of but what it is for: you hold it, you aim it at the other side, and it is what decides who wins. Once English has that shape, anything that plays the same part can be called a weapon, even when nobody is fighting.

可以想成 weapon 是「打起來的時候你手上抓的那個東西」——刀、槍、炸彈。決定它是不是武器的，不是材質，而是用途…更多收起可以想成 weapon 是「打起來的時候你手上抓的那個東西」——刀、槍、炸彈。決定它是不是武器的，不是材質，而是用途：你握著它、對準另一邊，然後它會左右誰贏。英文一旦有了這個形狀，任何扮演同樣角色的東西都可以叫 weapon，就算現場根本沒有人在打架。

Two branches

真的用來打的東西

這一組是核心畫面本身：看得見、拿得到、真的會傷人的東西。

weapon · noun · B2

A thing that is used to fight, attack, or protect, such as a sword, gun, or bomb.

武器

讓你取勝的本事或手段

把畫面裡的刀槍換成看不見的東西，但角色一模一樣：你「握著」它、對準對手、靠它分勝負。因為戰場換成了考場、球場或談判桌，這個用法幾乎不帶暴力感。

weapon (tool for success) · noun · B2

Something such as knowledge, a skill, or a plan that you use to win or succeed.

利器／手段

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。

weaponnoun/ˈwɛp.ən/

  • 1

    An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords.

    • The club that is now mostly used for golf was once a common weapon.
    • Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
  • 2

    An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.

    • Money is the main weapon of modern oligarchs.
    • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  • 3

    informalA tool of any kind.

    • Choose your weapon.
  • 4

    derogatoryslangAn idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.

  • 5

    slangA very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.

    • It has a whopping 5.4-litre V8, with a supercharger bolted to the top of it to help low-end pulling power. In short, it's a weapon and will happily dust a Porsche as easy as brushing your teeth.
    • We played Endless Heights' record release show earlier this year and during their set Christian from Endless Heights' lung collapsed, but he finished the set like an absolute weapon.
  • 6

    rareslangThe human genitals.

    • Young motherfucking legend, niggas just pretending I spit my shit, infectious, don't come in my section Or get wet bitch with that weapon Lift the pussy, yeah I bench press it, and I been stressing since a adolescent
    • Weh you get da pussy deh from? Hey, gyal me love you Md love the way you use your weapon Gyal, your pussy tight like a vice grip

weaponverb/ˈwɛp.ən/

  • 1

    To equip with a weapon; to arm.

    • […] the friends of the country and of the equal rights of all men, the friends of enfranchising the black man and of weaponing his hand for defense; the friends of taking the governments of these rebel States out of the hands of their rebel possessors, […]

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。