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Picture a spider's web: many fine threads crossing each other into one connected net that catches whatever flies into it. The threads are separate, yet they form a single fabric you can't easily pull apart. That image of fine strands woven into one connected whole is the picture the rest of the word grows from.

可以想成一張蜘蛛網：許多細絲彼此交錯，織成一張相連的網，凡是飛進來的東西都被攔住。每根絲是分開的，合在一起卻成了一整…更多收起可以想成一張蜘蛛網：許多細絲彼此交錯，織成一張相連的網，凡是飛進來的東西都被攔住。每根絲是分開的，合在一起卻成了一整片很難拆開的東西。web 最底層的畫面比較像這種「細絲交織成一整片相連的網」；其餘用法，幾乎都從這個畫面長出去——有的取它「相連、纏在一起」，有的取它「一片薄薄的連接膜」。

原始詞典資料31 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。

Webname/wɛb/

  • 1

    The World Wide Web.

    • Some of that content is now only available on the Web.
    • Web page

webnoun/wɛb/

  • 1

    The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.

    • The sunlight glistened in the dew on the web.
  • 2

    Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.

    • The time of his birth, his birth-place, his parentage, are all involved in obscurity; and such has been the perplexing ingenuity of commentators, that it is difficult to extricate the truth from the web of conjectures with which it is interwoven.
    • [T]he blame must rest on the sombre spirit of our forefathers, who wove their web of life with hardly a single thread of rose-color or gold, and not on me, who have a tropic-love of sunshine, and would gladly gild all the world with it, if I knew where to find so much.
  • 3

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesThe part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.

    • He caught the ball in the web.
  • 4

    A latticed or woven structure.

    • The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.
    • The colonists were forbidden to manufacture any woollen, or linen, or cotton fabrics ; not a web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, on penalty of exile.
  • 5

    A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.

    • Careful—she knows how to spin a good web, but don't lean too hard on what she says.
    • a tangled web of deception
  • 6

    A plot or scheme.

  • 7

    The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.

  • 8

    rail-transportrailwaystransportThe thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.

另外 16 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.

  • 10

    The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.

  • 11

    businessmanufacturingA continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.

  • 12

    lithographymediaprintingA long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.

  • 13

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

  • 14

    datedA band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.

  • 15

    A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

    • […] And there with ſtately pompe by heapes they wend, / And Chriſtians ſlaine rolle vp in webs of lead […]
  • 16

    A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

    • Argant a ſword, whereof the web was ſteele, / Pommell, rich ſtone ; hilts, gold, approu’d by tuch, / With rareſt workmanſhip all forged weele, / The curious art exceld the ſubſtance much.
  • 17

    A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

  • 18

    A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

  • 19

    A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.

  • 20

    datedbroadcastingmediaradioA major broadcasting network.

    • […] the first big move toward a contract for television performers was made Friday (20) when the webs agreed to pay them according to the length of the show. […] Altho the major TV webs — NBC and CBS — may fall in line soon, an agreement may possibly be held up by the opposition of DuMont […]
    • ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion.
  • 21

    architectureA section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.

  • 22

    archaicmedicinesciencesA cataract of the eye.

  • 23

    obsoleteWoven cloth or material.

  • 24

    obsoleteA piece of cloth or fabric, as off the loom.

    • She was presented with webs of the finest cloth, and with boxes of precious ointments.

webverb/wɛb/

  • 1

    To construct or form a web.

  • 2

    To cover with a web or network.

    • The canker worm has no shelter upon the tree, but lies out upon the leaf or branch ; this forms itself a house by webbing the corner of a leaf, into which it retreats on the first appearance of danger[…]
    • In the meantime continents were being ribbed with railways, the atmosphere was being webbed with telegraph wires connecting every important commercial centre[…]
  • 3

    To ensnare or entangle.

  • 4

    To provide with a web.

  • 5

    obsoleteTo weave.

    • Item that the Wever whiche shall have the wevyng of eny wollen yerne to be webbed into cloth shall weve werk[…]

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。